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The Field Fifth Reader
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781025653099
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.64
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Field Fifth Reader is a comprehensive educational anthology designed to foster literacy and literary appreciation in intermediate students. Compiled by Walter Taylor Field, this collection features a diverse range of prose and poetry selected for its moral value, linguistic clarity, and cultural significance.
The volume serves as a curated introduction to classic literature, offering students engaging narratives, biographical sketches, and verse from some of the most respected authors. Beyond its primary goal of teaching reading skills, the reader aims to cultivate character and a love for storytelling through carefully graded lessons. From adventurous tales and historical accounts to contemplative poetry, the selections are chosen to challenge the developing mind while remaining accessible. This collection remains a significant example of early twentieth-century pedagogy, reflecting the themes and instructional methods used to shape the minds of young readers during a transformative era in American education.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
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