These black-and-white workbooks are designed to provide additional practice sheets for the McGuffey Readers. They include:  listening for understanding; talking to a group; correct verb usage; oral reports; words and word parts; listening for information; listening for animal sounds; classifying animals; telling stories; review of sounds of vowels, consonants and blends; implied meanings; explanations; figures of speech; review of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, comparison-contrast, cause-effect, syllable-accents, related details, and main ideas; predicted out-comes; discussion; sharing an interesting experience; recognizing relationships; drawing conclusions; the special sounds of a, o and u; evaluation; expression in reading; mixed digraphs; outcomes anticipated; expression in story telling; pronunciation, enunciation; vocal volume and tone; and other phonograms.

Uses McGuffey's First Reader, Progressive Speller, and Phonics Made Plain.