Friendly Village Grade 2
$20.99
Overview
Three-Book Reading System: Includes Down the River Road for vocabulary review, Friendly Village for new word introduction, and Neighbors on the Hill as a parallel reader to reinforce skills and build reading confidence
Multi-Level Learning Approach: Down the River Road serves four distinct purposesquick review for advanced students, independent reading material, challenging content for average readers, or structured teaching text for developing readers
Story-Driven Content: Follows Alice, Jerry, and their friends through summer adventures across different locations including mountains, Western territories with Native American characters, seaside villages, and Southern family visits
Carefully Structured Vocabulary Development: Systematically introduces and reinforces new words through the three readers, with Neighbors on the Hill specifically designed to apply learned vocabulary in fresh contexts
Classic Alice and Jerry Series: Part of the established Basic Reading Program originally published in 1957 by Mabel O’Donnell, designed for second-grade reading instruction
Progressive Skill Building: Friendly Village presents the majority of new vocabulary while the companion readers develop reading power, confidence, and enjoyment through appropriately leveled content
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Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program
The folks of the Friendly Village scatter for the summer. Alice & Jerry stay home and enjoy the circus, etc. Mr. Carl goes to the mountains and meets Dan and Granny. Jack leaves the farm to go West with Father where he meets Singing Boy, an Indian. Bobby and Billy spend their summer in a village by the sea. Lastly Paddy goes South with his family to Grandmother’s house. At the end of summer everyone comes home to Friendly Village.
In Grade 2 there are three readers. Down the River Road can be used in four ways for different student purposes: as a quick review of the vocabulary from the previous year; as independent reading for accomplished readers; to provide new challenges for average readers; and as a regular teaching book for less proficient students. Friendly Village presents the bulk of the new vocabulary. Neighbors on the Hill is a parallel reader designed to apply vocabulary to new content and to develop confidence, power, and pleasure in reading by supplying content well within the range of a pupils reading ability.
This carefully structured reading program was first published in 1957
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