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Title: Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year

Author: E.C. Hartwell

Release Date: April 12, 2007 [EBook #21046]

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STORY HOUR READINGS

SEVENTH YEAR

BY
E. C. HARTWELL, M.A., M.PD.

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
BUFFALO, NEW YORK

Illustrations by
George Varian, F. Murch, Wilfred Jones
M. M. Jamieson, and others

[Illustration]

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PREFACE

This reader undertakes to provide desirable material for work in silent
reading without losing sight of the other elements essential in a good
reader for pupils in the seventh grade or in the first year of the
junior high school.

One task before the teacher of Reading in this year is to foster, by
stimulating material, a taste for good reading which it is to be hoped
has at least been partially formed in the preceding grades. The
selections in this volume are made with the purpose of giving the
seventh-grade pupils such virile and enjoyable literature as will make
them desire more of the same kind. The character and fitness of the
material, not the date of its production, have governed the choice of
the editor.

ARRANGEMENT BY GROUPS. There is an obvious advantage in grouping kindred
reading materials in sections under such captions as "Adventure," "From
Great Books," "Our Country," etc. Besides affording some elements of
continuity, the plan offers opportunity for comparison and contrast of
the treatment of similar themes. It also insures a massing of the effect
of the idea for which the section stands. Secondarily, the section
divisions break up the solid text, and because of this the pupils feel
at frequent intervals that they have completed something