Suggested as a Waldorf Reader for Late Fourth Grade
Illustrations by Ausa M. Peacock
American hero legends & poems from African & European traditions
Part
of a five book series with over 125 multi-cultural stories and poems
that complement the pedagogical intentions of the language arts
curriculum.
Progressively controlled and increasingly rich sight
and phonetic vocabulary development from story to story and book to
book. Progressively developing sentence structures from story to story.
All stories are designed for forty-five minute periods, including instruction and discussion time.
Grade
four book introduces the reading of non-standard English and various
narrative voices, as well as seeding the legendary backgrounds that
enrich the grade five geography curriculum.