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)


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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.