This grade level contains 118 selections of stories and poems in 8 units (poems indicated by italics).

The teacher's edition is a reduced copy of the workbook with answers filled in. The sections in the reader titled "Thinking It Over" have questions to develop comprehension; there is no answer key for these questions.

The test packet includes 8 tests and an answer key sheet. The workbook teacher's edition will indicate when each test is to be taken.

Contents

Unit 1: Our Heritage

• Our Help in Ages Past
• Church in the Pasture
• Dirk Willems and the Thief Catcher
• Faith of Our Fathers
• A Bonfire of Books
• Regina's Visit to Zurich
• One Dark Night

Unit 2: True Values

• The Bishop's Chairs
• A Psalm of Life
• The Spirit of Mortal
• Writing on Sand
• Crossing the Bar
• Doubting Castle
• All These Things
• If This Were All Nobility
• Home, Sweet Home
• Better Than Gold
• Lead, Kindly Light
• The Little Things
• Caught in the Quicksand
• Song of the Rye
• Conversation
• The Tongue
• Urho, the Boaster
• Redeeming the Time
• Peace Was Won
• Parable of the Trees
• Labor
• An Average Fence
• Because of Unbelief
• Hundred Francs for a Song
• Melvin's Trial
• Ronald and the Piltdown Man
• The Anvil—God's Word

Unit 3: People Who Served

• Hundred Guilders for Menno
• Schoolmaster on the Skippack
• William Penn
• Fanny Crosby, Blind Singer
• Safe in the Arms of Jesus
• Auctioned for Freedom
• The Monk From Wittenberg

Unit 4: Thinking of Others

• The World's Bible
• I Made a Friend Today
• The Kiskis
• Brothers All
• A Place for Everyone
• Walk, Don't Run
• The Golden Coin
• Dying to Self
• Lost Opportunities
• The Ten Dollar Witness
• Closed Lips
• A Secret for Two
• Old Sly Eye
• Prayer
• Moments
• Mrs. Harris' Adjustment
• Abou Ben Adhem
• The Jokers
• The Unsinkable Titanic

Unit 5: Nature's Wonders

• The Creator
• Spacious Firmament on High
• Once in a Thousand Years
• To a Waterfowl
• When Birds Go North
• The Winter Birds
• An Iceberg
• Miracle,
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
• Beyond Price
• Love of Flowers
• I Thank Thee, Lord

Unit 6: In Olden Days

• The Bible
• The Burial of Moses
• One Against Four Hundred
• Destruction of Sennacherib
• A Worthy Woman
• Overthrow of Belshazzar
• My Father's Business
• Carpenter's Son
• Barley Bread
• The Awakening
• Good Tidings
• Barabbas
• Borrowed
• Guard of the Sepulchre
• On the Emmaus Road
• Secret of the Catacombs
• Philomena
• Good Master
• Suppose
• Psalm 107

Unit 7: The Way of Love

• The White Feather
• The Battle of Blenheim
• Another Commandment
• The Man Who Could Not Yield
• The Arrow and the Song
• The Universal Language
• A Smiling Paradox
• An Ill Wind
• Folks are the Same
• The Homeless Hobo
• The Invincible Leader
• Peter Miller's Revenge
• Mother, the Watcher

Unit 8: Home on the Farm

• The Thunderstorm
• Plowman at the Plow
• Burning the Fallow
• Spring on the Farm
• Birds at Evening
• The Daffodils
• When the Rain Came
• The Corn Crop
• Chickens
• Leisure
• A Day in June
• Why I Stick to the Farm
• The Red Barn
• The Barefoot Boy

Acknowledgments