McGuffey's Fourth Reader ebook begins with exercises in punctuation, editor's marks, articulation, accent, and inflection, followed by 80 literature-based language arts lessons. Lessons are brief and easy to use with Charlotte Mason-style copywork and recitation. This quality reprint contains all the original diacritical markings and illustrations.
Focus: Vocabulary, Spelling, and Articulation
Grade level: 6-7 or as needed
Format: PDF ebook
Content: 80 lessons, 270 pages
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McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader eBook
The fourth reader ebook contains the same content as the print version. After a section focused on exercises in marks and pauses (punctuation and editor's marks), articulation, accent, and inflection, there are 80 lessons—51 in prose and 29 in poetry. By the end of the fourth reader ebook, your student will be reading words such as- bayonet
- lingering
- matted
- delicate
- wandering
- enshrined
- wafted
- yearning
- quadruped
- sagacious
- stratagem
- proboscis
Like all the McGuffey Readers, the Fourth Reader ebook contains poems, dramatic dialogues, essays, stories, and passages from classic literature, including a few stories from the Bible. Science-related articles include "How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling," and there are a botany and herbal medicine lessons wrapped in the story of a nettle, and other nature-related stories.
Includes instructions for use with Charlotte Mason methods
Instructions for Charlotte Mason's language arts methods of copywork, recitation, and narration is found in the 18-page introduction that has been added to this edition. Like Miss Mason, Mr. McGuffey believed in short lessons, learned well, so the readers provide a convenient source for material to use with Miss Mason's methods.
Improvements to the 1857 edition
The original publisher's preface describes what has been expanded and improved since the first edition of the Readers.
- Articulation and Pronunciation
- Exercises in Spelling and Defining
- Lessons on Marks and Pauses
- Inflection and Accent
- The Reading Lessons
Reading level
Selections from this reader tested at Flesch-Kincaide grade level 4.8 – 8.9 in a readability scorer, with at least one selection at 10.1 grade level.McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader ebook: ISBN: 978-1-61322-038-2
Published by Everyday Education, LLC, 2016.
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