In the upper grades of the elementary school the purpose of the work in reading is not merely to furnish an opportunity for drill in oral expression; it should also have as a distinct aim the development of interest in good literature and should expose the child to samples of many types of English prose and verse. While in some systems it is…

This textbook is first in a series of readers. Part one of each book deals with short selections in prose and poetry from American and British authors. Part two contains some of the great cycle stories that reveal stages of human development. Part three consists of selections from great American writers, together with biographies of the authors,…

This textbook is second in a series of readers. It is designed to furnish a rich and varied supply of reading matter suited to the interests and needs of children in the early part of the grammar school work. Part one of each book deals with short selections in prose and poetry. Part two contains some of the heroic tales of Greece and Rome. Part…

This textbook is an eighth-year reader. The book stresses cultivating literary judgement to pave the way for supplementary reading. Writings by authors such as Thomas De Quincey, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ben Jonson, Charles and Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry…

This textbook is a fifth reader. In this series, all the new words contained in each reading lesson, are placed at the head of the lesson, divided, pronounced, accented, and defined, with the part of speech designated. The scholar will thus have an opportunity to become acquainted with the spelling, pronunciation, accentuation, part of speech, and…

This textbook is designed for advanced classes in reading. It is adapted to this purpose by the following characteristics: (1) There is great variety in style and subjects; (2) the exercises are of a highly elevated character; (3) rhetorical rules and notation, exercises in articulation, definition, and the like are excluded as they have been…

This textbook is a third reader with longer words from common vocabulary that pupils should learn to recognize in print as they do in speech. Each reading lesson begins with words in columns intended to be studied for spelling, pronunciation, and meaning before the lesson is read. Sections entitled "How to Read" present the most…

This textbook is a reader with selections from familiar and popular ballads and tales relating to historic or legendary incidents and personages that have become famous in literature. Such selections as these, put into the hands of the young, will tend to foster a wholesome enjoyment of reading and to develop a fondness for books. They introduce…

This textbook is a third reader. Selections are poems and stories of fairy life intended to spark the pupil's imagination and, in some cases, impart moral values.

This textbook is a fourth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is a fifth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is a sixth-year reader in a series of readers prepared for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, now recognized as the crucial years in gaining technique in silent reading. The series objective is to direct silent reading, to motivate oral reading, to develop the reading habit, and to broaden the child's outlook on life. In their…

This textbook is the seventh reader in a series of illustrated primary readers. The chief aim of this series of readers is to develop, to a greater degree than has usually been done, the pupils' reading abilities, appreciation of literature, self-reliance, and good judgment in reading. This book is a unit in itself. In its careful selection of…

This textbook is an illustrated reading primer. This small volume, intended as a first book for children, will, it is hoped, be found an acceptable aid to little learners in their earliest efforts to ascend the ladder of learning. The lessons contain the most simple words--those with which the ear of the child is familiar. By the combination of…

This textbook is part of a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. The selections to be memorized are such as have been recommended and required by the departments of education in New York state and elsewhere. They…