The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader

by William Dodge Lewis; Ethel Maltby Gehres; Albert Lindsay Rowland

CONTENTS

		Page
Silent Reading		[1]
The Eskimo	J. Russell Smith	[2]
Scottish Border Warfare	Elizabeth Grierson	[9]
The New Wonderland	Mabel Dodge Holmes	[11]
Bristol		[16]
On the Frontier		[18]
The Happy Prince	Oscar Wilde	[19]
Can You Follow Directions?		[29]
Feeding French Children		[30]
Genevieve's Letter		[34]
Travel	Robert Louis Stevenson	[35]
How the Wish Came True		[36]
Rules for Using the Eyes		[37]
Acting for the Movies		[38]
Clear Thinking		[40]
The Land of Equal Chance		[41]
The Broken Flower-Pot	Bulwer-Lytton	[46]
Saint George and the Dragon		[51]
Nonsense Test		[56]
Turning Out the Intruder		[57]
Roosevelt's Favorite Study	William Draper Lewis	[58]
What a Chimney Is		[61]
Is It True?		[62]
Franklin Writes for the Newspaper		[63]
Yes or No?		[64]
How to Make a Sun-Dial		[65]
Putting Words Where They Belong		[67]
An Indian Buffalo Hunt		[68]
Indian Life and Customs		[76]
Can You Understand Relationship?		[89]
Opening the Great West		[90]
Turning Out the Intruder		[96]
The Training of a Boy King	H. E. Marshall	[97]
"Some Ugly Old Lawyer"		[103]
Adding the Right Words		[104]
The Desert Indians' "Fire Bed"		[105]
Yes or No?		[105]
Pietro's Adventure	John Clair Minot	[106]
Some Patriotic Mine Workers		[111]
Father Domino		[112]
The Good Giant Wins His Fortune		[116]
The Mole Awakes	S. C. Schmucker	[117]
The Count and the Robbers	Beatrix Jungman	[119]
What the Earliest Men Did for Us	Smith Burnham	[124]
Try This		[136]
Putting Words Where They Belong		[137]
Making Money Earn Money		[138]
Heroes of History	Mabel Dodge Holmes	[139]
The Skeleton in Armor	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[149]
Acting for the Movies		[156]
The Safest Place	Casimir A. Sienkiewicz	[158]
Unpatriotic Carelessness		[167]
A Memory Test		[169]
Caliph for One Day		[170]
The First Potter	Hanford M. Burr	[180]
Finding Opposites		[187]
"It's Quite True!"	Hans Christian Andersen	[188]
Tangled Sentences		[191]
How Sella Lost Her Slippers	Mabel Dodge Holmes	[192]
The Ghost of Terrible Terry		[198]
Roast Chicken		[203]
Why the Echo Answers	Mabel Dodge Holmes	[204]
The Fight with the Sea	Beatrix Jungman	[207]
Agriculture		[210]
Can You Do this One?		[215]
The Inchcape Rock	Robert Southey	[216]
Some Definitions		[218]
The Battle of Morgarten	John Finnemore	[219]
Finding Opposites		[222]
What Mekolka Knows		[223]
The Bear's Night		[228]
Is It the Same Bear?		[231]
The Chinese New Year's Day	Lena E. Johnston	[232]
Adding the Right Words		[235]
The Good Citizen—How He Uses Matches		[236]
Noblesse Oblige		[242]
The Magic Horse		[243]
Thinking		[255]
What is a Boy Scout?		[256]
The Scout and the Knight		[258]
The Fire Spirit	Hanford M. Burr	[259]
The Boyhood of a Painter	Andrew Lang	[273]
Civil Death		[277]
Otelne, The Indian of the Great North Woods	J. Russell Smith	[278]
Which is Right?		[288]
"Verdun Belle"		[290]
Another Nonsense Test		[296]
Can You Understand Relationship?		[297]
Charades		[298]
General Pershing's Welcome Home		[299]
The Fairies on the Gump	Mabel Quiller-Couch	[303]
Thinking and Doing		[312]
A Trip to the Moon	Charles R. Gibson	[312]

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[SILENT READING]

The book which you are now beginning is, as its title tells you, a silent reader; that is, a reader that you are to read to yourself, silently. It is much more interesting to read silently than to read aloud, and it is also much faster. With all the wonderful books and valuable articles that are being printed every day, it is important that you learn to read rapidly as well as to understand.

The purpose of this book is to help you to read fast and to understand clearly what you read. You will find all sorts of reading; animal stories, poems, fairy tales, problems, descriptions of strange places, puzzles, war stories, and lots of other things. We think you will find it very interesting, but the important thing is to use all this material to make yourself a rapid and at the same time a careful reader.

Of course you are much too old to move your lips when you read. If you have this habit you must break it at once, for you will never read rapidly as long as you continue to pronounce words even to yourself. It takes just as long to pronounce a word to yourself as to read it aloud. You must learn not to do so, if you are to gain speed in reading.

Your teacher is going to help you in every possible way and will frequently time you when you read and then test you to see if you have understood what you have read. But you will have to do the most yourself if you are really to learn to read rapidly and well.