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Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting tales, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The First Eclectic Reader includes stories, word lists, and phonics charts.Tags
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These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating pre-Kindergarten/early-elementary school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students learned cursive at such a young age.
As with the McGuffey's Primer, this is a reproduction of an old school book. It follows a basic phonics instruction pattern, and gets progressively more difficult. I do not think, however, that it provides enough practice, and I wonder how teachers would instruct students in one room schools.
The first couple lessons cover the same ground found in the primer, but by the middle of the book the characters are conversing with each other. The final two sentences are: "Be kind to all, and do not waste your time in school. When you go home, you may ask your parents to get you a Second Reader."
Still the best series for learning to read.
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- The lighter yellow books with chocolate brown binding are facsimiles of the original series. The original series was considered by some to have had a higher literary content and possibly greater religious content. The Rev... (show all)ised series, with reddish brown bindings and blue swirls upon the cover, removed much of the original religious content and literary content to create a work that de-emphasized regional and other differences. Another revision took place at the turn of the last century and possibly another circa 1920. Each revision significantly changes the content of the reading material. I consider them all separate series, but am not going to separate them at this time. The Speller, and 5th & 6th readers, were written by his brother. Other clearly separate series are the Moore- McGuffey Readers, though I cannot specify particular differences. Christian Liberty Press may have made a set in the past, labeling the books by letters. I do not know if they are identical in content. Now there are sets called "New" McGuffey's, which may or may not retain all original excerpts, but also include instructors content based on Charlotte Mason Techniques.
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