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Legends That Every Child Should Know

Legends That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 562 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Legends That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #6622.

19 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

Academic course · 19 chapters

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Legends That Every Child Should Know

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This edition of Legends That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #6622, divided into 19 chapters and 562 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.

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The complete text of Legends That Every Child Should Know is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #6622 and divided into 562 sections.

This page carries the whole of Legends That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #6622, a public-domain edition, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 2806 sentences across 19 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.

How is Legends That Every Child Should Know divided for reading?

Legends That Every Child Should Know is presented in 19 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

Rather than presenting Legends That Every Child Should Know as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 562 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The 19 chapters follow the divisions of the source edition, and each section carries a contextual illustration drawn from the passage it accompanies rather than a stock image.

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Yes. Every sentence and every individual word of Legends That Every Child Should Know can be played aloud, and each word shows its dictionary entry.

Every sentence of Legends That Every Child Should Know can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.

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Is this the complete text of Legends That Every Child Should Know?

Yes. All 2806 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #6622 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of Legends That Every Child Should Know is used?

Project Gutenberg eBook #6622, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Legends That Every Child Should Know take to read?

About 233 minutes of reading across 562 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

How to read Legends That Every Child Should Know section by section

How to work through Legends That Every Child Should Know section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Vocabulary met early in Legends That Every Child Should Know

Words and structures a reader meets early in Legends That Every Child Should Know, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Wigwam
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Legends That Every Child Should Know; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Legend
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Legends That Every Child Should Know; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Hiawatha
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Legends That Every Child Should Know; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Footnote
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Legends That Every Child Should Know; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.