Lighthouse: English Course Book | ICSE | Class Fourth | First Edition | By Pearson

The Lighthouse Series, designed on the basis of the new ICSE syllabus, is a set of course books for grades 1 to 8. The series guides the learner into learning language through the study of literature. Each course book takes a progressive approach to learning, with the chapters broken up into three levels of learning:

Elementary, intermediate and advanced. The series features a set of challenging and exciting texts from a wide range of literary genres, periods and forms, followed by a range of activities and exercises that enable learning in the areas of comprehension, vocabulary, listening and speaking, grammar usage and writing. The course books are supplemented by practice books that provide sufficient material to reinforce the learning from the course books.

Features

Table of Contents1. from a Railway Carriage—R.L. Stevenson

2. A Class Trip—Pradipti Jayaram

3. maggie and milly and molly and may—E.E. Cummings

4. Shipwrecked—Johann David Wyss

5. A New Beginning—E. Nesbit

6. Noor Inayat Khan—C.G. Salamander and Debangshu Moulik

7. School Breaks Up—R.K. Narayan

8. Woman Work—Maya Angelou

9. School on Wheels—Manna

10. Thrymskvida: How Thor Lost His Hammer—Ashwitha Jayakumar

11. Tintin: Destination Moon—Herge 153

12. Around the World in Pancakes—Siddharth Mehta

13. The Sorting Hat—J.K. Rowling

14. The Old Couple and the Foxes—Agamonee Barbaruah.