Complete Reader for Primary School. Grade 3

The Complete Reader for Primary School will help to prepare for extracurricular reading lessons, expand the horizons of third-grade students, and foster a sustainable interest in reading.

The book includes works of oral folk art: songs and jests, Russian folk tales and bylinas (including "Baba Yaga," "Vasilisa the Beautiful," "How the Peasant Divided the Geese," "Morozko," "Ilya Muromets and Kalin Tsar"). Students will be able to familiarize themselves with the poetic and prose works of such authors from the Golden Age as M. Y. Lermontov ("Borodino," "Clouds"), A. N. Maikov ("Autumn"), N. A. Nekrasov ("The Untouched Strip"), A. A. Fet ("The Cat Sings, Squinting His Eyes..."), I. A. Krylov (fables), V. A. Zhukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, F. I. Tyutchev, N. V. Gogol, D. N. Mamin-Siberiak, L. N. Tolstoy, I. S. Turgenev, K. D. Ushinsky, etc. The reader also includes texts by writers and poets of the Silver Age and contemporary domestic literature: "The Birch Tree" by S. A. Yesenin, "The First Snow" by I. A. Bunin, "The Wonderful Doctor" by A. I. Kuprin, "Childhood" by M. Gorky, as well as works by A. P. Gaidar, V. Y. Dragunsky, B. S. Zhitkov, M. M. Zoshchenko, K. G. Paustovsky, M. M. Prishvin, E. L. Schwartz, and others. The section on foreign literature contains myths of Ancient Greece, fairy tales from around the world, and tales by H. C. Andersen (including "The Tinderbox"), the Brothers Grimm ("Mrs. Frost" and "Sweet Porridge").