Excerpt from The New McGuffey First ReaderThe gradation both in thought and in words has been care fully 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 diminish ing as the printed forms become more familiar.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.