The New McGuffey First Reader

Reader

PREFACE
The New McGuffey First Reader has been prepared in conformity with
the latest and most approved ideas regarding the teaching of reading,
and its lessons embody and illustrate the best features of the word, the
phonic, and the sentence or thought methods.
While all the stories in this book are new, or have been rewritten
especially for its pages, care has been taken to preserve the
distinguishing characteristics which have given to the McGuffey
Readers their unparalleled popularity and usefulness.
The gradation both in thought and in words has been carefully
maintained, and the work provided enables the pupils to advance by
easy and evenly progressive stages from the beginning to the end.
Only a few new words are introduced at each lesson, and these are
repeated frequently in succeeding lessons until the pupils are able to
recognize them without difficulty.
From the first lesson script is presented in connection with the printed
forms of words, the frequency of its use diminishing as the printed
forms become more familiar.
The sounds of the letters are taught, in the order of the alphabet, by
appropriate exercises after the various reading lessons. The phonic
elements and the common diacritical marks are learned one at a time
and in a manner that is both natural and easy.
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A a N n B b O o C c P p D d Q q E e R r F f S s G g T t H h U u I i V v
J j W w K k X x L l Y y M m Z z
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FIRST READER
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a boy I see
boy I see a boy
I see a boy
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girl can and the girl
I see a girl.
I see a boy.
I see a boy and a girl.
The boy can see the girl.
I can see the girl and the boy.
I can see the girl.
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man has hat run
See the man!
See the boy and the man!
The man has a hat.

Has the boy a hat?
The boy can run.
Can the man run?
The man can see the boy run.
a man can has hat a
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doll have my
I have a hat.
I have a doll.
See my doll!
Can the doll see?
I can see my doll.
Has the doll a hat?
My doll has a hat.
The girl has a doll and a hat.
a can has hat have a
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play may take ball
Can the boy play?
The boy can run and play.

The boy can play ball.
Can the man play ball?
The man may see the boy play.
May the man take the hall?
The boy may take the ball.
a may play take a
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baby little big
Can the girl see the baby?
Can the baby see the little girl?
The baby has a big doll.
The little girl has a ball.
I can see the baby.
Can the baby see my big hat?
The baby may have my ball.
Take the ball, baby!
a may play take baby a
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dog it he with
The man has a little dog.

The boy has a big dog.
See the little dog run!
He has my ball.
May the big dog have it?
May he take it?
The little dog may have the ball.
He may run and play with it.
b big boy ball baby b
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bird she not fly
See the little bird!
May the baby have it?
May she take it?
She can not take it.
The bird can fly.
The baby can not have the bird.
She can not fly.
She may play with my doll.
She may have my big hat.
b baby big bird b

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cow is good to
I see a man and a dog and a cow.
The cow is with the man.
The dog has a big hat.
He is a good little dog.
He may take the hat to the man.
The man is good to the dog.
The cow can run. She can not play.
c can cow c
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catch come you me
The baby can not have the bird.
She can not fly and catch it.
Can she catch the good little girl?
Come, baby, come!
Come and catch me.
Catch me and my big doll.
Catch me, and you may have the doll.
You may have it to play with.

c can catch come c
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REVIEW.
The boy has a big dog.
You may see the dog play ball.
Can he catch it?
May I run and take it?
The man with the big hat has a cow.
The girl is good to the little baby.
The baby may have my big doll.
She