Sixth Reader (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Sixth Reader

The design of this series of School Readers is to help children to acquire the art and the habit of reading well - that is, of interpreting the printed page in such manner as to give pleasure and instruction to themselves and to those who listen to them. The selections throughout have been chosen with reference both to their literary and educative value and to their fitness for practice in expressive oral reading. All the lessons in this volume are easily within the comprehension of pupils in the lower grammar grades of the public schools.

The features which characterize and distinguish the preceding numbers of the series are continued in this book, and need not be again enumerated. In addition to their chief design, already mentioned, these features are intended to aid in the accomplishment of several desired ends; to cultivate a taste for the best style of literature as regards both thought and expression; to point the way to an acquaintance with good books; to appeal to the pupil's sense of duty, and strengthen his desire to do right; to arouse patriotic feelings and a just pride in the achievements of our countrymen; and incidentally to add somewhat to the learner's knowledge of history and science and art.

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