BLACK'S GRADED READERS THIRD BY BENJ. N. BLACK EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO PREFACE. Facility in the use of a good vocabulary is the most valuable acquirement in the early years of school life. Children learn the ordinary application of a large number of words very early in life, and these are the words they should learn to read fluently, before extending their vocabulary in the fields of literature and science. By repeating the child's vocabulary in many different relations the common application of words is greatly extended, and thereby the child learns much while reading pleasing stories. Almost all pieces of standard literature contain too many difficult words for pupils of a third reader grade. Of course, if fables and folk stories in adapted English are considered standard literature, then the third reader may contain an abundance. The subjects of this book have a high moral tone, without being didactic; the children themselves being unwittingly the judges of character. Paterson, N. J., August, 1904. B. N. BLACK. (3) |