Friendly Village Grade 2

Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program

The folks of the Friendly Village scatter for the summer. Alice & Jerry stay home and enjoy the circus, etc. Mr. Carl goes to the mountains and meets Dan and Granny. Jack leaves the farm to go West with Father where he meets Singing Boy, an Indian. Bobby and Billy spend their summer in a village by the sea. Lastly Paddy goes South with his family to Grandmother’s house. At the end of summer everyone comes home to Friendly Village.

In Grade 2 there are three readers. Down the River Road can be used in four ways for different student purposes: as a quick review of the vocabulary from the previous year; as independent reading for accomplished readers; to provide new challenges for average readers; and as a regular teaching book for less proficient students. Friendly Village presents the bulk of the new vocabulary. Neighbors on the Hill is a parallel reader designed to apply vocabulary to new content and to develop confidence, power, and pleasure in reading by supplying content well within the range of a pupils reading ability.
This carefully structured reading program was first published in 1957