Chapter 1 of Five Little Friends is here in full — 566 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Five Little Friends is here in full — 566 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends. They go to the same school. Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about. Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit. Betty is the girl in the checked dress.
Chapter 1 of Five Little Friends is here in full — 566 sentences across 114 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/113 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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move up and down repeatedly
From this reading “Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.”
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading “Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.”
patterned with alternating squares of color
From this reading “Betty is the girl in the checked dress.”
a very small circular shape
From this reading “Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.”
plural of “one” — the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
From this reading “Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.”
United States feminist (1885-1977)
From this reading “Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.”
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading “Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.”
great in vertical dimension; high in stature
From this reading “Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
move up and down repeatedly
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
a youthful male person
From this reading Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
patterned with alternating squares of color
From this reading Betty is the girl in the checked dress.
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
a very small circular shape
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
put on clothes
From this reading Betty is the girl in the checked dress.
the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
a young female
From this reading Betty is the girl in the checked dress.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading They go to the same school.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
plural of “one” — the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
United States feminist (1885-1977)
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Bob and Betty, Paul and Peggy and little Dot are five little friends.
Identical; not different.
From this reading They go to the same school.
an educational institution
From this reading They go to the same school.
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
be agreeable or acceptable to
From this reading Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.
great in vertical dimension; high in stature
From this reading Bob is the tall boy in the brown suit.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading They go to the same school.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They go to the same school.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They go to the same school.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading Many other children go to the school too, but these five little friends are the ones this story is about.
Chapter 1 of Five Little Friends by Sherred Willcox Adams holds 566 sentences, grouped into 114 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 566 sentences of Five Little Friends, unabridged, divided into 114 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Five Little Friends by Sherred Willcox Adams exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 566 sentences, grouped into 114 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 114 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 93 minutes of reading across 224 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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