Second Reader
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Second Reader
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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
A round-faced, Irish nine-year-old chortled on first looking into McGuffey's Second Reader.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hardly had the Second Reader begun, when one Friday the music man came.
From Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart by Hinton, Charles Louis
We could soon read in the Second Reader, and Fel always cried about the poor blind fiddler to whom Billy gave his cake, and I poked her with my elbow to make her stop.
From Aunt Madge's Story by May, Sophie
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
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