Lighthouse: English Course Book | ICSE | Class Third | 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 Contents 1. Why Anansi Has Eight Skinny Legs—A West African folktale

2. Limericks—Edward Lear

3. An Indian Train Journey—Jules Verne

4. Bienvenue à Pondicherry

5. Rabbit and Lark—James Reeves

6. A Merry Christmas—Louisa May Alcott

7. Florence Nightingale—C.G. Salamander and Samidha Gunjal

8. Three Wise Old Women—Elizabeth T. Corbett

9. Heidi: Part I—Johanna Spyri

10. Heidi: Part II—Johanna Spyri

11. M.O.M in Orbit—C.G. Salamander and Jemma Jose

12. The Beggar and the Five Dosais—A Tamil folktale

13. Fairies—Rose Fyleman

14. Spinning a Tale—A Play—Ashwitha Jayakumar.