Project Gutenberg 2005-10-25 Public domain in the USA. 288 Parker, Richard Green 1798 1869 Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Produced by PM Children's Library, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The University of Florida, The Internet Archive/Children's Library) "Parker's Second Reader" by Richard Green Parker is an educational reading textbook written in the mid-19th century. The book is designed for young students in schools, aiming to help them develop reading skills through a variety of lessons and stories. It focuses on making reading engaging and accessible for children, featuring tales, fables, and lessons that encourage understanding and comprehension rather than rote memorization. The opening of the book introduces the author’s address to the pupil, where he emphasizes the importance of active listening and engagement in the learning process. Parker draws analogies between learning and nature, using examples like a mother bird feeding her chicks to illustrate how children should open their minds to absorb knowledge. He also discusses techniques for deciphering difficult words by breaking them down into manageable parts, reinforcing the idea that perseverance and active participation are key to becoming a competent reader. Overall, the beginning establishes a nurturing and practical approach to education, setting the tone for a reader-friendly learning experience. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 73.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Readers (Elementary) Recitations -- Juvenile literature PE Text Children's Instructional Books Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Teaching & Education Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Teaching & Education 311467 2025-06-07T10:10:57.651214 text/html 304573 2020-12-12T18:56:19 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2038441 2020-12-12T18:56:19 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2136109 2025-06-07T10:11:06.785186 application/epub+zip 2135081 2025-06-07T10:10:59.688230 application/epub+zip 250375 2025-06-07T10:10:58.509239 application/epub+zip 2476757 2025-06-07T10:11:11.647173 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2403340 2025-06-07T10:11:05.198192 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 322415 2022-09-08T08:23:14.998257 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 238392 2025-06-07T10:10:56.587247 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 238270 2020-12-12T18:56:19 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 87397 2020-12-12T18:56:19 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 238269 2020-12-12T18:56:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 87362 2020-12-12T18:56:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20902 2025-06-07T10:11:11.831136 application/rdf+xml 21525 2025-06-07T10:10:58.630195 image/jpeg 3044 2025-06-07T10:10:58.571189 image/jpeg 2036460 2025-06-07T10:10:57.802226 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia