Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades: Enriched edition. Engaging Literary Works for Young Readers in Lower Grades

by Florence Holbrook

"Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades" by Florence Holbrook is a valuable resource designed to engage and entertain younger students in the world of dramatic literature. With carefully selected plays and scenes suitable for lower grade levels, this book aims to foster a love for reading, acting, and storytelling among young learners.

119 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 24, 2011

About the author

Florence Holbrook was an American writer, educator, suffragist, and peace activist. She taught in the Chicago schools for over fifty years, and was an American delegate to the International Congress of Women in 1915, at the Hague, and in 1919, in Zürich. She was also aboard the Peace Ship with Rosika Schwimmer, and part of John Dewey's commission to study Soviet education in 1929.

Holbrook wrote books for classroom use, often about mythology and folklore subjects. "Holbrook has a theory that if children hear the best of literature from the beginning of their education they will never wish for any other," explained a 1895 newspaper profile.

Round the Year in Myth and Song (1897)
The Hiawatha Primer (1898)
From Many Lands: A Third Reader (1901, with Mary Frances Hall)
Elementary Geography (1901)
The Book of Nature Myths (1902)
Northland Heroes (1909)
Hiawatha Alphabet (1910, illustrated by H. D. Pohl)
Cave, Mound, and Lake Dwellers (1911)
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades (1911)
"To the Teachers of All the World" (1915, with Kate Blake and Grace deGraff)
Every-day Speller (1917, with M. V. O'Shea and William Adalbert Cook)
"The Teacher" (1924)