#Graded readers books series

#Graded readers books series

No expense has been spared to maintain a high standard in the illustrations, and excellent engravings of masterpieces are given throughout the series with a view to quickening appreciation of the best in art. The careful drawings of plants and animals, and the illustrations in color – many of them photographs from nature – will be attractive to the pupil and helpful in connection with nature study. The lessons on scientific subjects, though necessarily simple at first, preserve always a strict accuracy. In the Graded Literature Readers good literature has been presented as early as possible, and the classic tales and fables, to which constant allusion is made in literature and daily life, are largely used. School readers, which supply almost the only reading of many children, should stimulate a taste for good literature and awaken interest in a wide range of subjects. The difficulty of learning to read is minimized when the interest is aroused. Their chief points of divergence from other new books, therefore, are their choice of subject-matter and their conservatism in method.Ī great consideration governing the choice of all the selections has been that they shall interest children.

They have been made not only in recognition of the growing discontent with the selections in the older readers, but also with an appreciation of the value of the educational features which many of those readers contained. It is believed that the Graded Literature Readers will commend themselves to thoughtful teachers by their careful grading, their sound methods, and the variety and literary character of their subject-matter.