READING. 
Badlam’s Suggestive Lessons in Language and Reading. A manual! for prt 
mary teachers. Plain and practical; being a transcript of work actually done in the 
school-room. 1.50. 
Badlam’s Stepping-Stones to Reading.— A Primer. Supplements the 283-page 
book above. Boards. 30 cts. 
Badlam’s First Reader. New and valuable word-building exercises, designed to follow 
the above. Boards. 35 cts. 
Bass’s Nature Stories for Young Readers: Plant Life. Intended to supple- 
ment the first and second reading-books. Boards. 30 cts. 
Bass’s Nature Stories for Young Readers: Animal Life. 
animals and their habits. To follow second reader. Boards. 40 cts. 
Firth’s Stories of Old Greece. Contains 17 Greek myths adapted for reading in 
intermediate grades. Illustrated. Boards. 35 cts. 
Fuller’s Illustrated Primer. Presents the word-method in a very attractive form to 
the youngest readers. Boards. 30 cts. 
Hall’s How to Teach Reading. Treats the important question: what children should 
and should not read. Paper. 25 cts. 
Miller’s My Saturday Bird Class. Designed for use asa supplementary reader in 
lower gradesor asa text-book of elementary ornithology. Boards. 30 cts. 
Norton’s Heart of Oak Books. This seriesis of material from the standard imagin- 
ative literature of the English language. It draws freely upon the treasury of favorite 
stories, poems, and songs with which every child should become familiar, and which 
have done most to stimulate the fancy and direct the sentiment of the best men and 
women of the English-speaking race. Book _I, roo pages, 25 cts. ; Book IT, 142 pages, 
3§cts.; Book III, 265 pages, 45 cts.; Book IV, 303 pages, 55 cts.; Book V, 359 pages, 
65 cts.; Book VI, 367 pages, 75 cts. 
Penniman’s School Poetry Book. Gives 73 of the best short poems in the English 
language. Boards. 35 cts. 
Smith’s Reading and Speaking. Familiar Talks to those who would speak well in 
public. socts. 
Spear’s Leaves and Flowers. Designed for supplementary reading in lower grades 
or as a text-book of elementary botany. Boards. 30 Cts. 
Ventura’s Mantegazza’s Testa. A book to help boys toward a complete self-develop- 
ment. $1.00. 
Wright’s Nature Reader, Wo. I. Describes crabs, wasps, spiders, bees, and some 
univalve mollusks. Boards. 30 Cis. 
Wright’s Wature Reader, Wo. II. Describes ants, flies, earth-worms, beetles, bar- 
naclesand star-fish. Boards. 40 Cts. 
Wright’s Nature Reader, Wo. III. Has lessons in plant-life, grasshoppers, butter 
flies, and birds. Boards. 60 cts. 
Wright’s Nature Reader, Wo. IV. Has lessons in geology, astronomy, world-life, 
etc. Boards. 70 cts. 
Gives lessons on 
For advanced supplementary reading see our list of books in English Literature. 
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