Third Reader: The Alexandra Readers

Name: Third Reader: The Alexandra Readers
Author: John Dearness

by John Dearness, W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre, John C. (John Cameron) Saul

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by David Edwards, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2016-03-14

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Public domain in the USA.

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Readers (Elementary)Readers (Primary)

About the authors

John Dearness

b. 1852

A Canadian teacher and naturalist, he turned a lifelong love of plants into important work on fungi and plant diseases. His career bridged education and science, and his careful fieldwork helped shape early Canadian botany and mycology.

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W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre

b. 1866

Best known for school readers and classroom guides, this Canadian educator wrote practical books meant to help children read well and teachers teach clearly. His surviving works suggest a writer focused less on literary fame than on everyday learning.

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John C. (John Cameron) Saul

1869–1939

A Canadian educator and writer whose books helped shape school reading in the early 1900s, he worked on widely used classroom anthologies and readers in Manitoba and beyond. His career joined teaching, editing, and literary selection in a way that left a quiet but lasting mark on Canadian education.

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