Elson Grammar School Readers, Book 1Scott, Foresman and Company, 1911 - Basal reading instruction Selections from American and English poets and authors. Includes brief biographical information and "helps to study." |
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... Study " include questions and notes designed to stimu late inquiry on the ... pronunciation , and these can be secured only when the teacher steadily ... pronunciation an authors , in the list n literature children of.
... Study " include questions and notes designed to stimu late inquiry on the ... pronunciation , and these can be secured only when the teacher steadily ... pronunciation an authors , in the list n literature children of.
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... pronunciation and meaning of words , for historical and mythical allusions should be steadily cultivated . Under " Helps to Study ” will be found vocabulary lists . These include a few words found in the lesson which pupils are expected ...
... pronunciation and meaning of words , for historical and mythical allusions should be steadily cultivated . Under " Helps to Study ” will be found vocabulary lists . These include a few words found in the lesson which pupils are expected ...
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... STUDY Notes and Questions Words and Phrases for Study of - fi ' - cial - ly VOCABULARY : văl ' - or - bravery ... PRONUNCIATION : main - tain ' ( man - tan ' ) rec ' - og - nize ǎl - tĕr ' - nāte sub - lime ' - ly sym ' - bŏl - ize for ...
... STUDY Notes and Questions Words and Phrases for Study of - fi ' - cial - ly VOCABULARY : văl ' - or - bravery ... PRONUNCIATION : main - tain ' ( man - tan ' ) rec ' - og - nize ǎl - tĕr ' - nāte sub - lime ' - ly sym ' - bŏl - ize for ...
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... PRONUNCIATION : pěr'il - ous hǎv'oc hire ' - ling 19 that has made and preserved us a nation ' ' ? Read the words ... Study haugh'ty ( hột ) pol - lū ' - tion ref ' - ūge vaunt ' - ing - ly ( vônt ' ) ave e ! VOCABULARY : ccurred during ...
... PRONUNCIATION : pěr'il - ous hǎv'oc hire ' - ling 19 that has made and preserved us a nation ' ' ? Read the words ... Study haugh'ty ( hột ) pol - lū ' - tion ref ' - ūge vaunt ' - ing - ly ( vônt ' ) ave e ! VOCABULARY : ccurred during ...
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... STUDY Notes and Questions Words and Phrases for Study leaped ( lēpt , or lěpt ) qu ' - di - ble - loud enough to be ... PRONUNCIATION : vāgue ( vāg ) ach ' - ing VOCABULARY : 21 blended at that time ? When do the stripes in the flag ...
... STUDY Notes and Questions Words and Phrases for Study leaped ( lēpt , or lěpt ) qu ' - di - ble - loud enough to be ... PRONUNCIATION : vāgue ( vāg ) ach ' - ing VOCABULARY : 21 blended at that time ? When do the stripes in the flag ...
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Aladdin Aladdin's mother Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba Badroulbadour bird Blefuscu boat bright Caliph Captain Cassim cave cried door Elson Grammar School Emperor Epimetheus eyes flowers forest gave give gold golden Golden Touch Grammar School Reader hand heard heart HELPS TO STUDY Hiawatha hundred Inchcape Rock island isle King King Midas knew Knight lamp land laugh Lilliput lines which tell Little John lived look magician Majesty merchants Midas Morgiana morning Nokomis Notes and Questions palace Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read the lines rich Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe round sail School Reader Book Sheriff Sheriff of Nottingham ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR slave soon stanza story STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION Sultan things thou thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wood Words and Phrases
Popular passages
Page 130 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 290 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 89 - 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 45 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Page 17 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 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, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 290 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 88 - 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 soon would be there...
Page 89 - 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 32 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Page 51 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.