Chapter 8 of Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything. “You were good to me!” said she. “You protected my little children, my ten little children! I know the way! I’ll show you the way!
Chapter 8 of Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays is here in full — 398 sentences across 80 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading “Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.”
make high-pitched sounds
From this reading “Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.”
all things; all of a situation
From this reading “Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.”
kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss
From this reading ““You protected my little children, my ten little children!”
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading “I’ll show you the way!”
with low volume
From this reading “Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
From this reading ““You protected my little children, my ten little children!”
fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation
From this reading “Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
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In this reading “Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.”
In this reading ““You protected my little children, my ten little children!”
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anew
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
a youthful male person
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
plural of “child” — a young person of either sex
From this reading “You protected my little children, my ten little children!
make high-pitched sounds
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading “You were good to me!” said she.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I know the way!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I’ll show you the way!
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading I know the way!
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “You were good to me!” said she.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “You protected my little children, my ten little children!
kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss
From this reading “You protected my little children, my ten little children!
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “You were good to me!” said she.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “You were good to me!” said she.
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading I’ll show you the way!
with low volume
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
From this reading “You protected my little children, my ten little children!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation
From this reading Again the little bird began to chirp softly, but the boy understood everything.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading I know the way!
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “You were good to me!” said she.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You were good to me!” said she.
Chapter 8 of Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays by Ada M. (Ada Maria)[Editor] Skinner holds 398 sentences, grouped into 80 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 8 holds 398 sentences of Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays, unabridged, divided into 80 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays by Ada M. (Ada Maria)[Editor] Skinner exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 398 sentences, grouped into 80 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 80 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 80 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 8 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 259 minutes of reading across 623 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Little Folks' Christmas Stories and Plays, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
