Trails to Explore 4th grade Reader Author:A Beka Books Children are eagerly searching for a workable sense of values. They need to see in the lives of great people, common people and children likes themselves, the unchanging values of the ages lived out. They need reading materials that will give them ideals to reach for and examples to follow. The stories in this reader have been selected from the ... more »readers of America's past and have been edited, modernized and classroom-tested for student appeal and readability. This reader will introduce to children not only what is excellent in itself, but what their parents and grandparents have read before them--stories so good that they will never become old stories that impart moral values. Many values are taught throughout the book. Among them are honety, integrity, courage, faith, kindness, forgiveness, industry and patriotism. Thought questions at the end of the stories greatly aid in the understaning and appreciation of the selections. (4th grade reader from the Abeka Book 4th grade curriculum.)« less