Lighthouse: English Course Book | ICSE | Class Second | 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. My Dog Ate My Homework—Kenn Nesbitt

2. The Twits—Roald Dahl

3. Petu Pumpkin: Part I—Arundhati Venkatesh

4. Petu Pumpkin: Part II—Arundhati Venkatesh

5. The Little Pink Rose—Sara Cone Bryant

6. Laughing Song—William Blake

7. Robin Hood—Jayashree Menon and Shreya Sen

8. The Blue Jackal

9. The Land of Story-Books—Robert Louis Stevenson

10. The Mystery Menu—Manna

11. The Miser Millionaire

12. Onam—Jayashree Menon.