School Reading by Grades

This sixth-year reading volume invites students beyond simple fluency into a richer encounter with literature, combining clear oral reading, literary criticism, and the study of major English and American authors. Its pages bring together poems, stories, historical episodes, patriotic speeches, and nature writing, supported by explanatory notes, portraits, and illustrations that sharpen understanding and broaden artistic taste. Within that varied anthology, a lively tale of "Two Ways of Telling a Story" contrasts innocence, generosity, and criminal intent as a carefree midshipman is shadowed by danger, only to be quietly preserved by chance and providence. Elsewhere, Bryant's "The Death of the Flowers" meditates on autumn, memory, and human mortality with gentle sorrow. The book also offers a harrowing eyewitness account of Krakatoa's eruption, a triumphant reception of Columbus in Spain, lyrical praise of the skylark, playful scientific dialogue on tadpoles, and dramatic poems including "The Glove and the Lions" and "True Growth," before ending in the ominous approach of a storm at sea. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.