The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
by Ontario. Department of Education
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This classic textbook offers a comprehensive guide to reading, writing, and language development for students of all ages. With engaging stories and practical exercises, The Ontario Second Book provides a solid foundation in language and literacy skills that will prepare students for success in school and beyond. Whether you are a teacher or a student, this book is an indispensable resource for improving your reading and writing abilities. 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 is in the ...
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- THE ONTARIO READERS
- FOURTH BOOK
- AUTHORIZED BY
- THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION
- Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1909, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture by the Minister of Education for Ontario
- TORONTO:
- The T. EATON Co Limited
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- FOURTH READER
- THE CHILDREN'S SONG
- OUR COUNTRY
- TOM TULLIVER AT SCHOOL
- INGRATITUDE
- THE GIANT
- THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
- THE FIRST SPRING DAY
- THE BATTLE OF THE PIPES
- BEGA
- A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
- WOLFE AND MONTCALM
- CANADA
- SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS
- HANDS ALL ROUND
- JUDAH'S SUPPLICATION TO JOSEPH
- MIRIAM'S SONG
- (Read Exodus, XV.)
- THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB
- (Read II. Kings, XIX. 35)
- THE LARK AT THE DIGGINGS
- THE ANCIENT MARINER
- AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH PERIOD IN CANADA
- A HYMN OF EMPIRE
- STORY OF ABSALOM
- THE BURIAL OF MOSES
- (Read Deuteronomy, XXXII. 48-50)
- THE CRUSADER AND THE SARACEN
- From "AN AUGUST REVERIE"
- WORK AND WAGES
- UNTRODDEN WAYS
- THE FIRST PLOUGHING
- THE ARCHERY CONTEST
- IN NOVEMBER
- AUTUMN WOODS
- IN A CANOE
- AFTON WATER
- DAVID COPPERFIELD'S FIRST JOURNEY ALONE
- THE BAREFOOT BOY
- COUNTRY LIFE IN CANADA IN THE "THIRTIES"
- HEAT
- THE TWO PATHS
- BERNARDO DEL CARPIO
- MOSES' BARGAINS
- THE MAPLE
- THE GREENWOOD TREE
- LAKE SUPERIOR
- THE RED RIVER PLAIN
- THE UNNAMED LAKE
- LIFE IN NORMAN ENGLAND
- YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
- INSTRUCTION
- HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
- THE BELLS OF SHANDON
- THE VISION OF MIRZAH
- FORBEARANCE
- MERCY TO ANIMALS
- THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS
- OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT
- THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS
- HUDSON STRAIT
- SCOTS WHA HAE
- ST. AMBROSE CREW WIN THEIR FIRST RACE
- HUNTING SONG
- BORDER BALLAD
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER
- TO THE CUCKOO
- ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
- THE GREAT NORTHWEST
- RULE, BRITANNIA
- THE COMMANDMENT AND THE REWARD
- THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT
- JUNE
- THE FIFTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD THE SAILOR
- OCEAN
- PONTIAC'S ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE FORT DETROIT
- MY NATIVE LAND
- MORNING ON THE LIEVRE
- EVENING
- AN ELIZABETHAN SEAMAN
- THE SEA-KING'S BURIAL
- MY CASTLES IN SPAIN
- ALADDIN
- DRAKE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
- THE SOLITARY REAPER
- CLOUDS, RAINS, AND RIVERS
- FITZ-JAMES AND RODERICK DHU
- THE INDIGNATION OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
- DICKENS IN THE CAMP
- DOST THOU LOOK BACK ON WHAT HATH BEEN
- THE PASSING OF ARTHUR
- THE ARMADA
- FOOTNOTES:
- DEPARTURE AND DEATH OF NELSON
- WATERLOO
- ODE WRITTEN IN 1746
- BALAKLAVA
- FUNERAL OF WELLINGTON
- IN A CAVE WITH A WHALE
- THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS
- THREE SCENES IN THE TYROL
- MARSTON MOOR
- LONDON
- HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX
- AN INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
- BRITISH COLONIAL AND NAVAL POWER
- ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND
- A GOOD TIME GOING
- FOOTNOTES:
- GOD IS OUR REFUGE
- INDIAN SUMMER
- THE SKYLARK
- WHAT IS WAR
- THE HOMES OF ENGLAND
- TO A WATER-FOWL
- THE FASCINATION OF LIGHT
- DAFFODILS
- TO THE DANDELION
- TRUE GREATNESS
- THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS
- HONOURABLE TOIL
- ON HIS BLINDNESS
- MYSTERIOUS NIGHT
- VITAÏ LAMPADA
- THE IRREPARABLE PAST
- A CHRISTMAS HYMN, 1837
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