This grade level contains 111 selections of stories and poems in 9 units (poems indicated by italics).

The teacher's edition is a reduced copy of the workbook with answers filled in. The sections in the reader titled "Thinking It Over" have questions to develop comprehension; there is no answer key for these questions.

The test packet includes 8 tests and an answer key sheet. The workbook teacher's edition will indicate when each test is to be taken.

Contents

Unit 1: Moving Ahead

• The Day We Lost the Game
• Three Things to Remember
• The Crop of Acorns
• Only A Little Thing
• We Plow The Fields
• Who Plants a Seed
• A Hard Day's Work
• If All the Skies Were Sunshine
• All For The Best
• Halloween Boomerang
• Please Him
• The Tides of Providence
• Where Love Is, God Is
• Look Aloft

Unit 2: It Happened Long Ago

• The Return of the Dove
• The Link Between
• Mary and Martha
• Only Believe
• One Thing I Know
• A Ballad of Trees and the Master
• Sign of the Fish
• Forty Men for God
• Jesus and Alexander
• How Big Was Alexander?

Unit 3: Meeting the Challenge

• The Gutenberg's Secret
• It Couldn't Be Done
• Bread To Cherish
• A Plea
• The Greatest Test
• Where Shall I Work
• God's Thoughts and Mine
• No Turning Back
• What Would You Do?
• At the Crossroads
• Stick-Together Families
• One Minute Longer
• The Wild White Rose
• Gossip Town
• The Simple Things
• My Debts

Unit 4: In the Animal World

• Coaly Bay, Outlaw Horse
• What The Fawns Must Know
• Evening at the Farm
• The Humpy One
• When the Cows Come Home
• Lone Clearing
• My Bird Sings
• Love Among the Birds
• Secret Things
• The Little Birds of God

Unit 5: Helping Others

• Charity
• Three Lessons
• Channels of His Love
• Advertising For A Thief
• Pass It On
• Think Twice
• I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
• Road to Canada
• What Is Success?
• Somehow
• Fair Exchange
• Service
• You Sent the Money
• How the Great Guest Came
• My Neighbor's Roses
• If But One Year

Unit 6: Broadening Our Horizons

• Who Hath a Book
• Four Things
• Region of the Gentiles
• Great Plague of London
• The Leak in the Dike
• The Flickering Lantern
• The Unbarred Door
• The Johnstown Flood
• The Forest Fire
• The Village Blacksmith
• Making Hay in the Olden Days
• Anna and the Turkey Red
• Twisters on Palm Sunday

Unit 7: Lives Worth Living

• Benjamin's Message
• Tinker of Bedford
• No Monument for George
• The Pioneer
• Samuel Marsden
• Traded for a Horse

Unit 8: Appreciating Our Past

• Trek Across the Mountains
• Baptized by Fire
• Mistaken for a Pirate
• Collar on the Wall
• Horses in the Barley
• Afterwards
• Chimney Soot and Pokeberry Juice
• The Old Lamp

Unit 9: Seeking True Values

• The Bible
• Friends are Like Flowers
• Place of Deliverance
• An Easter Canticle
• Bless Them that Curse You
• April
• The Kite
• The Gallant
• A Home Song
• A Song From the Suds
• Just for the Thrill of It
• A Shopping Trip
• Lost Hour
• Dollar Bill Mystery
• A Thunderstorm
• Remember Now Thy Creator
• Farmer John
• Thanksgiving

Acknowledgments