Download or read book Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade written by Augusta Stevenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to accomplish three distinct purposes: first, to arouse a greater interest in oral reading; second, to develop an expressive voice—sadly lacking in the case of most Americans; and third, to give freedom and grace in the bodily attitudes and movements which are involved in reading and speaking. The stories given are for the most part adaptations of favorite tales from folklore,—Andersen, Grimm, Aesop, and the Arabian Nights having been freely drawn upon.