McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (revised) - Lesson XXIV: The ship

For this phonics lesson and worksheet we will be looking at short and long vowel sounds.

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (revised) - Lesson XXII The sun will soon set.

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer - Lesson XXII Our cows worksheet

Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich by Hans Witzig is the book that teaches you how to draw the pictures I have been using.  This is a great activity for your child if they can read but have difficulty writing.

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer: Lesson VI- Nat's cap video and links

Lesson IV:  Nat's cap worksheets and activities

The McGuffey Eclectic Primer

Free online book and worksheets

Letters and sounds of the English alphabet

This video is designed to eliminate distraction and to focus the pupil's attention on learning the letters and sounds of the English alphabet. This is the first step in learning to read using the McGuffey's Reader Series. 

Click here to link to the first grade handwriting paper.

Click here to link to the first grade handwriting script.

Buchstaben Mini-Mappe für Gruenewald VA

Worksheets on Adjectives and Adverbs

An adjective chart worksheet

Adjective worksheet – circle the adjectives in each sentence

Adjective worksheet – finish the sentences using an adjective

 Comparative and superlative adjectives lesson plan

Distinguish adjectives from verbs worksheet

9 adverb worksheets

11 adjective worksheets

Several different adjective worksheets

Find the adverb worksheet

Adverb – circle the adverb in each sentence underline the word it modifies worksheet

Adverb – circle the adverb and underline the word it modifies in each sentence worksheet

Comparing with adjectives and adverbs – crossword puzzle and fill in the blank worksheet

Word Types: Adjectives and Adverbs

Download worksheet

 More online activities on Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives such as beautiful, nice, and red describe nouns. Adverbs such as quickly, badly, or warmly describe verbs. This page will explain the differences between them, and show you how to make adverbs from adjectives.

BBC English: Writing - Sentences

English writing reading spelling grammar worksheets are coming.

BBC English: Reading - Non-fiction

English writing reading spelling grammar worksheets are coming.

BBC English: Reading - Dictionaries

English writing reading spelling grammar worksheets are coming.

BBC English: Reading - Deduction

English writing reading spelling grammar worksheets are coming.

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer: Lesson I - A cat and a rat.

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New National First Reader (NNR) - Lesson IV

In addition to this Reader lesson you will also practice phonics rules, handwriting and vocabulary. Additional resources on the topic are also made available such as printable worksheets and online activities.

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McGuffey's Eclectic First Reader - Lesson I

Vocabulary:





Phoneme Families:

oo as in:

book
cook
hook
look
took
nook
brook
crook
shook

ear (long e) as in:

bear
pear
tear
wear
swear

ear (er, ir,or,ur) as in:

earn
learn
yearn

(heard, search, earth)


Click here to get the ebook.

Click here to link to the first grade handwriting paper.

Click here to link to the first grade handwriting script.

Here is what it looks like:

Buchstaben Mini-Mappe für Gruenewald VA

Lessons in this series:

• First Reader:Lesson XVII
• First reader: Lesson XVI
• First Reader: Lesson XV
• First Reader: Lesson XIV
• First Reader: Lesson XIII
• First Reader: Lesson XII
• First Reader: Lesson XI
• First Reader: Lesson X
• Penmanship practice paper
• McGuffey's 1836 First Eclectic Reader: Lesson I
• First Reader: Lesson II
• First Reader: Lesson III
• First Reader: Lesson IV
• First Reader: Lesson V
• First Reader: Lesson VI
• First Reader: Lesson VII
• First Reader: Lesson VIII
• First Reader: Lesson IX

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer: Lesson 1

Lesson 1

The first couple of lesson of McGuffey's reader only requires your child to read through the given words. Your child should have covered at least 50 phongarms before starting the Primers. Have your child read through each word three times. If they are struggling with certain sounds, have patience and go back and review that sound. After reading the words, have them copy in their notebooks and draw a picture for each word.

The words for this lesson are:

Boy
Man
Hen
Top

Memory Verse:

Zechariah 8:4-6

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts."

Activity:
(A fun project to do with an adult's help)
Make your own top

Poetry Lesson 3: The Lyric

Lyric Verse

While narrative verse is written to tell of heroic deeds and incredible tales, the lyric verse is written to express feelings and to stir your emotions. Lyric verse is also shorter and easier to follow than most narrative poems. Different forma of lyric verse are: sonnets, villanelles, minnesang, pastourelle, canstone, and stev. Lyric poetry is like a great song, where the poet makes a steady use of rhyming words and carefully aranges the lines within each stanza.

by John Keats

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art---
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors---
No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

Poetry Lesson 2: The Narrative

Lesson 2; Narrative Verse

Narrative poetry is one of the oldest, and may be the oldest, forms of poetry. It's used to tell a story and can be either long or short. There are different types of narrative poetry. The most common are: epics, romances, and historical verse.
Epics are very long and have many parts; many are as long as a whole book. Some famous epic poems are Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", Dante's "Divine Comedy", Beowulf (author unknown), John Milton's "Paradise Lost", etc.
Romances are usually shorter poems, and tells stories about chivalry and classical mythology.
Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" is a good example of narrative romance.
Historical verse takes true stories and makes them come to life by putting them to rhyme. However, be careful, for they occasionally stretch the truth. "Paul Revere's Ride" by H.W. Longfellow is a famous example of a historical narrative.

McGuffey's second eclectic reader

(~174 pg)Read Online
(12 MB)PDF
(8.69 MB)B/W PDF
(~174 pg)EPUB (beta)
(~174 pg)Kindle (beta)
(~174 pg)Daisy (beta)
(93 KB)Full Text
(6.12 MB)DjVu

1836 First Eclectic Reader: Lesson XXXII. - Little Lucy.

Do you like to read? Can reading be as fun as play? What is so good about reading? Create a list of adjectives describing why it is good to read. The list should have atleast four adjectives.

Little Lucy.

Lucy, can you read? Yes sir, I can. Would you rather read than play? Yes sir, I would, because mama tells me that play will not be of any use to me after I am grown. If I love to read, I will be wise and good. A little boy or girl who can not read is not much better than Puss. Puss can run and play, as well as they. Puss can never learn to read. Boys who do not know how to read can not learn anything, but what is told to them. When a boy of girl knows how to read, they can sit down and learn a great deal, when there is no one to talk to them. After boys and girls have learned to read, they can learn to write. Then they can send letters to their friends, who live far away.

Vocabulary.

know, cannot, because,
friends, mama, away,
much, rather, letters,
learned, better, and never.