MOORE MCGUFFEY – SECOND READER

Description

WILLIAM MCGUFFEY

In stories where modern technology has revealed new information or contradicting evidence, questions at the end of the chapter guide the student to discover the most recent findings. New questions have been written for today’s student to further reading comprehension and reasoning power, and to reinforce the lesson taught. The accompanying word lists contain selected words from the stories and may be used for reading, spelling or vocabulary work.
The level of difficulty increases with each story. By the time a child finishes the Second Reader, he or she
is capable of beginning the Third Reader in the four-book series – The Moore Foundation 1983

Table of Contents

The Man Who Could Not Read
An Early Riser
The New Kite
The Kite Lost
Beaver Builders
The Moon
Little Francis and the Hourglass
The Love of Brothers and Sisters
The Greedy Girl
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.