These black-and-white workbooks are designed to provide additional practice sheets for the McGuffey Readers. These workbooks include:  review of short, long and special vowel sounds; two-letter consonants; two-syllable words; beginning and ending consonant blends; the two sounds of c; spelling plural nouns; sequence of time and events; R-controlled vowels; continued study of cause and effect; main ideas, comparisons-contrasts, outcomes-conclusions, cause-effect, homographs, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms and details; silent final e; word endings; directions; the -er sound; ending consonant sounds; word parts and accents; letter teams; word pictures; sounds of k and s; and the Golden Rule.

Uses Phonics Made Plain, the Pictorial Primer, and the Progressive Speller. The Eclectic Primer is used in review.