MOORE MCGUFFEY – THIRD READER

Description

WILLIAM MCGUFFEY

McGuffey’s Readers emphasize lessons designed to build character. Questions and a Spell-and-Define word list follow each lesson. All new questions, intended to aid oral discussion or to provide written assignments, were written from the understanding and viewpoint of today’s child. The Spelling-and-Define list suggests words for spelling and vocabulary development. The numbers before each word refer to the paragraph or stanza where it is found – The Moore Foundation 1983

CONTENTS:

Effects of Rashness
Conflagration of an Amphitheater
Advantages of Industry
How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling
Select Sentences and Paragraphs
Alexander the Great
The Child’s Inquiry
A Contest with Tigers
The Thunderstorm
The Skylark
Murderer’s Creek
How to Guard Against Temptation
Short Sentences
The Bible
More About the Bible
Musical Mice
Character of Jesus Christ
Clothing of Animals and Vegetables
The Lost Child
The Rainbow
And Many More Stories

Nearly a hundred and fifty years ago William Homes McGuffey, gathered his own writings, and clippings, and selections from standard work. and he wrote the first four McGuffey Readers. Covering the areas of family life, farming, science, history, biography, secular and biblical literature, he presented his readers with a wide range of interests, and an even wider range than than which is found in todays typical reading books. Since 1920 McGuffey readers have continued to sell, and have been used by schools and parents concerned about the content of children’s reading books.

You might have found as a parent that its hard to go into the library or book store and find books that are at the right reading level for your children. What is wonderful about these McGuffey books is that they are very practical, in that they start at lesson one which is literally a sentence per line. The words are big and theres good spacing between each word, making it comfortable for the beginner reader. Slowly as the stories go on, they start to introduce more complex vocabulary, which takes the reader progressively one small step at a time.

There are fifty to sixty short stories in each book. By the end of the book, the reader is doing multipart stories which are longer, broken into two, three or four parts. With each McGuffey reader the print decreases in size and the stories progress in length and difficulty. New vocal words used in the story are listed at the end of the story, giving the parent opportunity to discuss these new words with the reader. Comprehension questions are also included with the progression. By the time the reader reaches the fourth McGuffey book, they are reading literature at a university level.