Chapter 3 of The Child at Home is here in full — 26 sentences across 6 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter III
Chapter 3 of The Child at Home is here in full — 26 sentences across 6 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends. Why scholars are unpopular in school. The way to gain friends. The warm fire. Playing ball.
Chapter 3 of The Child at Home is here in full — 26 sentences across 6 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/5 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
From this reading “Playing ball.”
obtain
From this reading “The way to gain friends.”
the act of playing a musical instrument
From this reading “Playing ball.”
plural of “scholar” — a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
From this reading “Why scholars are unpopular in school.”
an educational institution
From this reading “Why scholars are unpopular in school.”
plural of “trait” — a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
From this reading “TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.”
regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval
From this reading “Why scholars are unpopular in school.”
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading “The warm fire.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Why scholars are unpopular in school.
round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
From this reading Playing ball.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
start firing a weapon
From this reading The warm fire.
plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
obtain
From this reading The way to gain friends.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Why scholars are unpopular in school.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
the act of playing a musical instrument
From this reading Playing ball.
plural of “scholar” — a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
From this reading Why scholars are unpopular in school.
an educational institution
From this reading Why scholars are unpopular in school.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The way to gain friends.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The way to gain friends.
plural of “trait” — a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval
From this reading Why scholars are unpopular in school.
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
From this reading The warm fire.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading The way to gain friends.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why scholars are unpopular in school.
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends.
Chapter 3 of The Child at Home by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott holds 26 sentences, grouped into 6 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 3 holds 26 sentences of The Child at Home, unabridged, divided into 6 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Child at Home by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 26 sentences, grouped into 6 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 6 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 6 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 3 can be played aloud in United States English.
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