《美国语文读本》从19世纪中期至20世纪中叶,一直被广泛用作美国学校的语文教材,据称有10000多所美国学校拿它当作教材。到了21世纪,西方一些私立学校(Private School)和家庭学校(Homeschool)仍用它作为教材,足见这套书的价值与影响力。据估计,这套书从问世至1960年,至少发行了1.22亿册;1961年后,在西方每年销量仍达30000册以上。应该说,没有哪一套个人主编的教材能超过此发行量了! 此套读本的英文原版共分七级,包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与第一级篇幅都较少,难易程度也很接近,于是我们将之合并为第1册,其余2-6级与英文原版相同。这样国内出版的这套读本共包括6册。第1册从字母表开始,主要侧重于字母的发音与书写、简单的单词与句型,同时强调英文书写,课文后面附有不少书法练习,让孩子们不仅将英语说得像外国人,而且写得也跟外文书法一样,这是国内英语教学所缺少的一个环节。从第2册开始,均是比较正式的课文,每一课包括词汇和课文,对一些生词有英文解释,让学生学会通过简单英文理解生词,养成用英语理解和思维的习惯。第5册和第6册的课文前增加了作者简介与相关背景知识,内容丰富而有一定深度。 此套书为在原版本基础上重新修订精装版,后两册字号较之前有所放大,并且修正了原有的错误之处,以方便学生阅读。 This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts, originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami University McGuffey, had a profound influence on public education in the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that the selections were chosen from a number of sources, were considered remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book, excluding the Bible. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey\'s Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster\'s Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person\'s name has come close to that mark. McGuffey\'s Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.
LESSON 1 THE SHEPHERD BOY LESSON 2 JOHNNY’S FIRST SNOWSTORM LESSON 3 LET IT RAIN LESSON 4 CASTLE-BUILDING LESSON 5 CASTLE-BUILDING LESSON 6 LEND A HAND LESSON 7 THE TRUANT LESSON 8 THE WHITE KITTEN LESSON 9 THE BEAVER LESSON 10 THE YOUNG TEACHER LESSON 11 THE BLACKSMITH LESSON 12 A WALK IN THE GARDEN LESSON 13 THE WOLF LESSON 14 THE LITTLE BIRD’S SONG LESSON 15 HARRY AND ANNIE LESSON 16 BIRD FRIENDS LESSON 17 WHAT THE MINUTES SAY LESSON 18 THE WIDOW AND THE MERCHANT LESSON 19 THE BIRDS SET FREE LESSON 20 A MOMENT TOO LATE LESSON 21 HUMMING BIRDS LESSON 22 THE WIND AND THE SUN LESSON 23 SUNSET LESSON 24 BEAUTIFUL HANDS LESSON 25 THINGS TO REMEMBER LESSON 26 THREE LITTLE MICE LESSON 27 THE NEW YEAR LESSON 28 THE CLOCK AND THE SUNDIAL LESSON 29 REMEMBER LESSON 30 COURAGE AND COWARDICE LESSON 31 WEIGHING AN ELEPHANT LESSON 32 THE SOLDIER LESSON 33 THE ECHO LESSON 34 GEORGE’S FEAST LESSON 35 THE LORD’S PRAYER LESSON 36 FINDING THE OWNER LESSON 37 BATS LESSON 38 A SUMMER DAY LESSON 39 I WILL THINK OF IT LESSON 40 CHARLIE AND ROB LESSON 41 RAY AND HIS KITE LESSON 42 BEWARE OF THE FIRST DRINK LESSON 43 SPEAK GENTLY LESSON 44 THE SEVEN STICKS LESSON 45 THE MOUNTAIN SISTER LESSON 46 HARRY AND THE GUIDEPOST LESSON 47 THE MONEY AMY DID NOT EARN LESSON 48 WHO MADE THE STARS? LESSON 49 DEEDS OF KINDNESS LESSON 50 THE ALARM CLOCK LESSON 51 SPRING LESSON 52 TRUE COURAGE LESSON 53 THE OLD CLOCK LESSON 54 THE WAVES LESSON 55 DON’T KILL THE BIRDS LESSON 56 WHEN TO SAY NO LESSON 57 WHICH LOVED BEST LESSON 58 JOHN CARPENTER LESSON 59 PERSEVERE LESSON 60 THE CONTENTED BOY LESSON 61 LITTLE GUSTAVA LESSON 62 THE INSOLENT BOY LESSON 63 WE ARE SEVEN LESSON 64 MARY’S DIME LESSON 65 MARY DOW LESSON 66 THE LITTLE LOAF LESSON 67 SUSIE AND ROVER LESSON 68 THE VIOLET LESSON 69 NO CROWN FOR ME LESSON 70 YOUNG SOLDIERS LESSON 71 HOW WILLIE GOT OUT OF THE SHAFT LESSON 72 THE PERT CHICKEN LESSON 73 INDIAN CORN LESSON 74 THE SNOWBIRD’S SONG LESSON 75 MOUNTAINS LESSON 76 A CHILD’S HYMN LESSON 77 HOLDING THE FORT LESSON 78 THE LITTLE PEOPLE LESSON 79 GOOD NIGHT
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