McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

Excerpt from McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader: Revised Edition
All new words are given at the head of each lesson. When these are mastered, the main difficulties left for the pupil are those of expression. In the latter portion of the book the simpler derivatives, - such as are formed by add ing one or two letters, - possessives, plurals, verbal forms, etc., - are omitted if the primitive word has been given. In this way the pupil is gradually led to the mastery of words as ordinarily printed.
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