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A cat and a rat. Read the first page
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But with this primer, the pictures are pretty but subtle and so the only thing left for the child to concentrate on are the words. Each section, which is one page each, starts with a small group of words to learn, some are memorizing words like "the" and some they can sound out like "cat." Then they take those words and read small paragraphs using those words. The following sections introduce more words and use those and previous words in the paragraphs. It's a very progressive thing and takes about 5 - 10 minutes per page so your child can read a section, run off to play and read another one the next day. It works and it is exciting hearing them read.
BTW- *My son* asked Grandma for the next McGuffey reader for his birthday. Pretty cool, huh?
I particularly appreciate the "Reviews" that come after each set of four or five lessons. No pictures means that the child must entirely depend on her/his memory of the words from previous lessons and on phonetics in order to make her/his way through the review.
One slight drawback would be that for some of the lessons, the story line is not clear enough to catch the child's attention. On some occassions, my daughter reads all the words, but she fails to comprehend the lesson's meaning. This is rare, but more modern readers do a better job of making their stories engaging enough that the child forgets how "hard" it is to read, and instead races through the book to find out what happens.
Nonetheless, I think that parents who are serious about teaching their children to read and who understand the value of supplementing their child's school curriculum, will appreciate the Primer and subsequent titles in the McGuffey series. At the same time, they will expose themselves and their children to a bit of Americana!
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