The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 4Ginn, 1914 |
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... sometimes a response to the teacher's manner rather than to the material itself . Silent reading is used by many as a test of the power to read , though the test may fall short of its possibilities by the accept- ance of a word - for ...
... sometimes a response to the teacher's manner rather than to the material itself . Silent reading is used by many as a test of the power to read , though the test may fall short of its possibilities by the accept- ance of a word - for ...
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... sometimes with joy ; consequently it is with high expectations that Book Four is offered as a help toward solving the problem of maintaining interest in reading in all nine - year- old children . ९९ The selections from Longfellow ...
... sometimes with joy ; consequently it is with high expectations that Book Four is offered as a help toward solving the problem of maintaining interest in reading in all nine - year- old children . ९९ The selections from Longfellow ...
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... Sometimes , when the marks will not tell , the word is spelled according to the sound , to make it easier . But this is not often done , for it is better to see the word spelled right , and the marks will generally tell you how it is ...
... Sometimes , when the marks will not tell , the word is spelled according to the sound , to make it easier . But this is not often done , for it is better to see the word spelled right , and the marks will generally tell you how it is ...
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... sometimes an old gray fox run- 10 ning through the orchard just beyond . He tells us that once a partridge built her nest and hatched her brood not fifteen feet away from the window . So he came to love the animals , and loved these ...
... sometimes an old gray fox run- 10 ning through the orchard just beyond . He tells us that once a partridge built her nest and hatched her brood not fifteen feet away from the window . So he came to love the animals , and loved these ...
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... the next page . lullaby ( lŭll'a bỹ ) : a song sung to babies to put them to sleep . stanza ( stănʼzȧ ) : a group of lines of poetry , sometimes called a verse . 1 pp Sweet and low , sweet and low , Wind ALFRED , LORD TENNYSON 51.
... the next page . lullaby ( lŭll'a bỹ ) : a song sung to babies to put them to sleep . stanza ( stănʼzȧ ) : a group of lines of poetry , sometimes called a verse . 1 pp Sweet and low , sweet and low , Wind ALFRED , LORD TENNYSON 51.
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१९ ९९ Alice America Argentina Arion army asked baby began bob-o'-link bobolink BRAHMAN Brer Fox Brer Rabbit Buenos Aires called chee Christmas Cordoba cried cupperty-buts Dryad Edmondo de Amicis England Evelyn eyes fable father fire friends Frost Spirit Genoa girl goats gold hand happy head hear heard horses hymn Indians Jessy Johanna Spyri Kittykin land Lars Literary Readers lived Longfellow looked lullaby Marco meant memorizing Mequinez Moni morning mother mountain mouse Nicholas night Norrland Old Pipes Pilgrims poem poet QUESTIONS AND HELPS rocks sailed sandpiper shallop sheep ship shore sing sleep Smith snow soldiers song spink stanza Star-Spangled Banner story tar baby Tell Thanksgiving things thought tiger told took tree Trowbridge Uncle Remus village WASHINGTON wild wind woods words write wrote young
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Page 318 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 279 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 150 - White are his shoulders and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note: "Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Look, what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee!" Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings: "Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Brood, kind creature; you need not fear Thieves and robbers while I am here. Chee,...
Page 308 - He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread...
Page 183 - THE FOUNTAIN INTO the sunshine, Full of the light, Leaping and flashing From morn till night; Into the moonlight, Whiter than snow, Waving so flower-like When the winds blow; Into the starlight Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight, Happy by day; Ever in motion, Blithesome and cheery, Still climbing heavenward, Never aweary; Glad of all weathers, Still seeming best, Upward or downward, Motion thy rest; Full of a nature Nothing can tame, Changed every moment, Ever the same; Ceaseless aspiring, Ceaseless...
Page 69 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! ENDYMION.
Page 300 - MAKE a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness : Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God : It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves ; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise : Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting ; And his truth endureth to all generations.
Page 306 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked" like a peddler just opening his pack.
Page 306 - Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name; " Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away!...
Page 305 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas...