Chapter 1 of Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
See https:// Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge . Massachusetts U . S .
Chapter 1 of Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged is here in full — 119 sentences across 24 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
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a university in England
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closed in or surrounded or included within
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United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)
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a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading “Massachusetts U .”
the bank of a river
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chosen in preference to another
From this reading “Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .”
the words of something written
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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.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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using the voice; not silently
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
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disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
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fearless and daring
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state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .
plural of “boy” — a youthful male person
From this reading Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=).
a university in England
From this reading Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .
closed in or surrounded or included within
From this reading Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=).
be identical or equivalent to
From this reading Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=).
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=).
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
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plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .
United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)
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inside something, or within a place, period, or state
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the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
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a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
From this reading Massachusetts U .
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
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not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
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have ownership or possession of
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exert pressure or force to or upon
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the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
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the bank of a river
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1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading S .
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading See https://
chosen in preference to another
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plural of “sign” — a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
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the words of something written
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys’ and Girls’ Own Reading Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge The Riverside Press Cambridge .
a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading Massachusetts U .
the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
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Chapter 1 of Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged by Frances Jenkins [Editor] Olcott holds 119 sentences, grouped into 24 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 119 sentences of Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged, unabridged, divided into 24 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged by Frances Jenkins [Editor] Olcott exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 119 sentences, grouped into 24 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 24 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 24 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 1 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 219 minutes of reading across 528 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
