The Elson Readers, Book 2Scott, Foresman and Company, 1920 - 436 pages |
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ASSIGNMENT The teacher Baby Ray bell Bell of Atri birds child Child World Children's Hour Christina G Christmas Clara CLASS DISCUSSION Clytie cock corn dinner doll Fairy Shoemaker father Fourth Step-Reading Lesson girl Gray Goose happened horse Jack Frost King Laura little boy Little Mouse little pig Little Tailor looked Mary Mapes Dodge Milton Bradley Company Monkey mother nest North Wind Ojeeg old woman Phonetic Review phonogram Phrase poem Polly pot of gold rabbit READING EXERCISE Seat rip-rap Robert Louis Stevenson Second Step-Dramatization SENTENCES Set VII-C shadow Sight WORDS Review SILENT READING ASSIGNMENT SILENT READING EXERCISE snow Songs SPELLING spiders stanza stars Step-Reading Lesson Book Step-The Oral Story SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY summer Taro teacher writes Tell the text text story Third Step-Sentence tree winter wolf woods Word Development WORDS Sight Review writes the following
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Page 22 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 158 - My native country, thee, land of the noble free, Thy name I love: I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills like that above.
Page 27 - I HAVE a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
Page 159 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! 4 Our fathers...
Page 135 - Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing thro'. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Page 159 - Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles , a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off ! The flag is passing by!
Page 283 - ... ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play. And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep...
Page 175 - At evening when I go to bed I see the stars shine overhead; They are the little daisies white That dot the meadow of the Night. And often while I'm dreaming so, Across the sky the moon will go; It is a lady, sweet and fair, Who comes to gather daisies there; For when at morning I arise, There's not a star left in the skies; She's picked them all, and dropped them down Into the meadows of the town.
Page 55 - THE COW THE friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And yet she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, The pleasant light of day; And blown by all the winds that pass And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers.
Page 137 - Summer is gone and the days grow cold." Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call, Down they came fluttering, one and all ; Over the brown fields they danced and flew, Singing the soft little songs they knew.