Read Online McGuffey Eclectic Primer McGuffey Readers William McGuffey Books

Product details Age Range 3 - 7 years Grade Level Preschool - 2 Series McGuffey Readers Paperback 68 pages Publisher Applewood Books; Revised, Facsimile edition (October 12, 2010) Language English ISBN-10 1429040998

McGuffey Eclectic Primer McGuffey Readers William McGuffey Books Reviews

• I have had to get creative with my second-born when it comes to reading. She has proven to be a very slow reader, who even displays signs of dyslexia, although I have just pushed through that without mentioning my observation to anyone, including her. I am glad because she's overcome any difficulty fine without any labelling or "intervention."
  When we started learning to read, I went straight to "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons," which had worked like a charm for my first ("Phonics Pathways" not so much.) My second really did not meet that book with any fondness whatsoever, and, in fact, the magic was lost to me as well, so bland and vacuous the stories ending up seeming to me.
  So then I went to "The Reading Lesson; Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons," by Michael Levin and Charan Langston. Much better! We made our way through fairly pleasantly (with a couple of minor complaints on my part -- mostly that the authors created their own pronunciation symbols rather than universally used ones.) At the end, though. She was simply not a full-fledged reader!
  So, exploring I went, and came to McGuffey. I have a couple of the more advanced books, which I have read aloud mostly in the past to 1 and 2, so great is the quality of the literature, but I suddenly thought that hope might dwell within the covers of the Primer. And it did! I bought the version and we sailed through, a quick lesson at a time! And so beautiful!!
  She still needs work, so I can hardly wait to move on to the next.
  Highly recommended!
• The content is pretty good, and I think reading this with my younger daughter helped her grasp reading, though once she "got" reading, she quickly moved past the very simple words and sentences in this book. It is a primer, so simple words and simple sentences are just right for the child beginning to learn to read. There is a liberal use of diacritical marks to indicate letters which aren't pronounced exactly as read, and to distinguish short from long vowels.
  
  Unfortunately, the scan quality isn't great, and some of the letters are a possible to confuse with other letters, and the diacritical marks become a little subtle (and sometimes increase the possibility of confusion); also some of the line-drawing pictures have become muddy and don't illustrate the sentences as well as clearer drawings might have.
• This arrived just as expected, and I absolutely love it. One of my kids has special needs and is not grasping sight words at all that seems to have taken over as the way of being taught to read now. He was much more receptive to this, learning the way the words sound out and then being able to read them in such wonderful, simple sentences. I have a feeling we will be working with this primer for a few years and that is okay with me. I have hope that my son will be able to learn to read now.
• I just downloaded the edition to my iPad. It is a garbled version of the FREE Gutenberg Project transcription, which looks like an automated scan to text version.
  No illustrations. "Typewriter" font, not the beautiful fonts claimed for the print version. It is not formatted to the page but just runs on like a webpage. (This is unfortunate because the original apparently had vocabulary lists above the text on the same page.)
  There are misspelled words, typos, page headers and footers interspersed in the text, even strings of random characters.
  
  I'm an educated adult and I can barely figure it out--I wouldn't think of giving it to a child!
  
  I must say I'm disappointed, because I believe technology, with dictionary lookup and text-to-speech, could be a major advantage for beginning readers.
• I have had a set of readers for years, but the primer has been missing for some time. The only disappointment was it came with a soft cover and not with a hard cover as the rest of the set. Not having the original I have not been able to compare the contents which I hope is like the original. Unfortunately, there are all too many in our society that wish to erase, bit by bit our religious heritage of which the McGuffey readers have been an integral part, teaching not only reading, but Christian values as well.
• Seems like the lessons progress too quickly. I'm guessing my children will need much more practice before being able to move on through this book. 3 stars for the sweet vintage illustrations.
• I highly recommend this book to teach anyone who at least has a limited English speaking vocabulary. All you and your pupil need is to know the alphabet and know the sounds each letter makes. Your pupil will be reading by the first lesson, amazed, and proud of themselves. I stumbled upon it thirty years ago when my pre-school oldest wanted to read. The local school told me to wait until he was older. I found this in the bookstore and used it to teach all of my children, who excelled in school (reading, the key). I am now using it (had to buy it again after the oldest took it for his own kids) to teach an ESL student with limited, but some English speaking skills. She is thrilled and soaking it up like a sponge, the mystery having been unlocked. Maybe it is phonics, but McGuffey really understood how to select words which built skills on each other. I initially was drawn to the book because it reminded me of the old spelling books I used in the 1950s, which taught me well. The illustrations are ok. In the hardback, we saw the pictures just fine. In the version that I have now, the illustrations are a little smaller, but you can still make everything out--a steal for the price!
• ( edition) Content is good. Solid, beginning reader for a child learning to read. But the format is still a bit off - most pages are pretty good but some aren't positioned right. I'd recommend the print version over the kindle version.