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Reading-literature : second reader /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reading literaturePublication details: Chapel Hill, NC : Yesterday's Classics, 2008.Description: 184 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781599152660
  • 1599152665
Other title:
  • Second reader
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.4 TRE
Contents:
Twenty-two stories and thirty-three poems including: -- Aesop's fables -- Mother Goose rhymes -- The fir tree -- The discontented pine tree -- Boots and his brothers -- The elves and the shoemaker -- Cinderella -- Hans in luck -- Group of Christina G. Rossetti's poems -- The queen Bee -- The brave tin solder -- The sister of the sun -- Why the sea is salt -- The flying ship -- Group of Robert Louis Stevenson's poems -- Sleeping Beauty -- East o' the sun and west o' the moon -- Little Maia -- Hansel and Gretel -- Peter Pan -- Group of poems.
Summary: Introduces fables and fairy stories and continues folk tales and simple poems. The material is organized: a group of fables, several groups of folk and fairy stories, a group of Mother Goose, of Rossetti, of Stevenson, and so on; so that the child may get a body, not a mere bit, of one kind of material before passing to another. Thus from the first he is trained to associate related literature and to organize what he reads.--Publishers description.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Standard Loan (Child Access) Hayden Library Juvenile Nonfiction Hayden Library Book 372.4/TREADWE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 50610023856615
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Third volume in the series of Reading-Literature readers, whose purpose is to train children in reading and appreciating literature through the reading of literature. The Second Reader introduces fables and fairy stories and continues folk tales and simple poems. The material is organized: a group of fables, several groups of folk and fairy stories, a group of Mother Goose, of Rossetti, of Stevenson, and so on; so that the child may get a body, not a mere bit, of one kind of material before passing to another. Thus from the first he is trained to associate related literature and to organize what he reads. Attractive black and white illustrations are appealing to children. Suitable for ages 7 and up.

Twenty-two stories and thirty-three poems including: -- Aesop's fables -- Mother Goose rhymes -- The fir tree -- The discontented pine tree -- Boots and his brothers -- The elves and the shoemaker -- Cinderella -- Hans in luck -- Group of Christina G. Rossetti's poems -- The queen Bee -- The brave tin solder -- The sister of the sun -- Why the sea is salt -- The flying ship -- Group of Robert Louis Stevenson's poems -- Sleeping Beauty -- East o' the sun and west o' the moon -- Little Maia -- Hansel and Gretel -- Peter Pan -- Group of poems.

Introduces fables and fairy stories and continues folk tales and simple poems. The material is organized: a group of fables, several groups of folk and fairy stories, a group of Mother Goose, of Rossetti, of Stevenson, and so on; so that the child may get a body, not a mere bit, of one kind of material before passing to another. Thus from the first he is trained to associate related literature and to organize what he reads.--Publishers description.

Ages 7 & up.

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