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
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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
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And so did Emmy Lou know by heart her Second Reader as far as she had gone; she often gave the lesson with her book upside down.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Hinton, Charles Louis
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
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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