Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . fc*.. PREFACE School readers in the fourth and fifth years of school usually em-phasize the enlargement of vision and interests of those periods ofdevelopment. But while the currents of child-life constantly growbroader and deeper at this time, pupils are still children, and cravegames, tales, adventure, and the world of nature. The Fifth Reader of this series recognizes the permanence of theseinstincts by including the finest of the great myths. Biography,travel, manners and customs, and civics are introduced as importantinfluences.
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . fc*.. PREFACE School readers in the fourth and fifth years of school usually em-phasize the enlargement of vision and interests of those periods ofdevelopment. But while the currents of child-life constantly growbroader and deeper at this time, pupils are still children, and cravegames, tales, adventure, and the world of nature. The Fifth Reader of this series recognizes the permanence of theseinstincts by including the finest of the great myths. Biography,travel, manners and customs, and civics are introduced as importantinfluences. Finally, the strictly imaginative, in abundance, givesglimpses of the great world of fiction. The list of authors contains the names of classic writers longfamiliar in standard literature, and the names of many others whohave, in more recent years, won the hearts of the great reading public—both children and grown people—by their charming descriptionsof nature and of the life of the present day. It has been the special object of the authors in both the Four
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