Becoming a fluent reader depends upon more than an ability to “decode letters.”
Reading and literacy are empty concepts for the child who lacks mental furnishings.
This site contains a variety of brief articles about people, places, and things.
ART
fresco
putto
LANGUAGE
English
Spanish
French
LITERATURE
Aslan
Gulliver’s Travels
Bedivere
Mark Twain
Invictus
The Concord Hymn
The Pied Piper
Svengali
Shakespeare
MUSIC
a capella
PEOPLE
Joan of Arc
Elizabeth Blackwell
Constantine I
Lord Baden-Powell
Thomas Becket
Grigory Rasputin
Betsy Ross
Alaric the Visigoth
Erik the Red
GEOGRAPHY
the Galapagos
continental drift
Oklahoma
Ben Nevis
Geography counts
Central America
Sherpa
Taj Mahal
Rio Grande
New York City
Ireland
the Antilles
AMERICAN HISTORY
the electoral college
the Great Seal
E Pluribus Unum
WORLD HISTORY
the 100 Years’ War
the Domesday Book
NATURAL HISTORY
the human animal
Canis familiaris
Dinosaurs and human beings
flora and fauna
the periodic table
the ozone layer
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
Hinduism
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
Ancient Greeks & Romans
Christianity
Islam
The Human Soul