More on the McGuffey Readers
I apologize, as it took me a few days to get the rest of these up. For some reason MediaFire was not cooperating with me. I spent hours trying to get these uploaded-arrgh.
To answer Kimmer’s question, I am really interested in the phonics tables in the books and their use in relation to the stories. My son is a pretty strong reader, but at some point in time he went from using phonetic skills to relying purely on memory. I realize that memorization does play a role in his reading ability, but I also see how his memory does not serve him when we do things like dictation, and he is faced with writing something unfamiliar. When he comes across a word in a text he does not know, he is overwhelmed. Often the word(s) could be sounded out if he would only fall back on phonics. For whatever reason he no longer does this.
I will use the McGuffey Spelling Book with the same purpose in mind. I also think it offers a great list of vocabulary words that he can benefit from.
McGuffey’s Fourth Eclectic Reader
McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader
McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader
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