This grade contains 43 lessons plus 26 poems in 6 units.

The teacher's edition is a reduced copy of the workbook with answers filled in.

The quizzes are designed to increase reading comprehension, and should be done after reading each story and completing the associated workbook exercises.

The test packet includes 8 tests and an answer key sheet. Each test is to be taken after completing the reader pages indicated on the test.

Contents

Unit 1: Upward Trails

• Jingling Quarters
• Katie Couldn't Forget
• Teacher's Pets
• The Two-Faced Apple
• The Toy Gun
• Willing Workers
• The Day the World Was Angry

Unit 2: Learning by Living

• Once Well Done, Twice Done
• Worse off than Wilma
• The Hardest Word
• Plain, Ordinary Food
• The Empty Water Jug
• What Love Will Do
• Caught in a Trap

Unit 3: The World Around Us

• Players in Fur
• The Busiest Insect of All
• The Whirlybird
• The Beetree
• Karen, the Kangaroo
• Little Men of the Woods
• Dotty, a Pacific Salmon

Unit 4: Growing Stronger

• The Boy Who Had Ten Thumbs
• Don't, David, Don't
• Measuring a Promise
• The Crooked Tree
• The Big Boy
• Bothersome Brothers
• The Buggy that Buzzed
• Surprises

Unit 5: Years Ago

• Who Broke the Bit?
• Rules or no Rules
• The Friendly Visit
• Home on Wheels
• The Gold Dollar
• Shadow of Danger
• Room to Spare

Unit 6: Learning From Animals

• A Home for Jenny Wren
• Our Summer with the Wrens
• The Seeing Eye
• Jimmy and the Birds
• The Robber
• Ah-Tuck-Ta, my Little Polar Bear
• Jack Miner's—Where Wild Birds are Tame

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List of Poems

• A Bird's Lesson
• A Little Brother Follows Me
• All Things Bright
• A Servant
• Be Careful What You Say
• Bird Trades
• Dare to Say "No"
• I Must Be
• Little by Little
• Secret Things
• Thank You, Heavenly Father
• Thank You, Lord
• The Boy and the Acorn
• The Bravest Thing
• The Chicken's Mistake
• The Garden
• The Garden [sic]
• The Greatest Thing
• The Prisoner
• The Shepherd's Psalm
• The Shining Web
• The Spider and the Fly
• This is my Father's World
• Two Seeds
• What Shall We Children Bring?
• When Father Prays