Saturday, December 24, 2011

A Kansas First Reader

"Studies in Reading, First Reader" was compiled by J.W. Searson, George E. Martin, and Achsah May Harris and published 1920 by the The State of Kansas, copyright was 1917 by the University Publishing Company, The State of Kansas.

J.W. Searson was a professor of English at the Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan.

Martin was Superintendent of the Training School and Dean , Nebraska State Normal School, Kearney.

Harris was  a professor of primary education, Kansas State Normal School, Emporia.

It was 186 pages, illus. and contained a variety of stories, poems, and simple songs.  Some of which had been written by Harris: "A Letter from Santa Claus", "Mr. Lincoln and the Bird", " The Wind and the Sun" ,  "Story the Bean Told" and "Our Flag."   Most were poems with one a skit retelling an Aesop fable.

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