THE NEW MCGUFFEY FIRST 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