Second Reader
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Second Reader
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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A round-faced, Irish nine-year-old chortled on first looking into McGuffey's Second Reader.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Second Reader contained more complicated animal stories, also some frightening ones — big bears, fierce tigers — and the im mortal legend of George Washing ton and his father's cherry tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
She showed it to Hattie the next day, folded in its paper, and slipped for safety beneath the long criss-cross stitches which held the calico cover of her Second Reader.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Hinton, Charles Louis
Had he said one thousand, eight hundred and nine, she would have known; that was the way one knew it in the Second Reader, but eighteen hundred was confusing.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Hinton, Charles Louis
To develop appreciation for the well-told story; for example, Second Reader, p.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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