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Met a Crow1The Man That Had No Hat2The Sleepy Man  \n3  \nThis Man Talked About You4A Man in the Woods Said:6The Man That Had Little to Say7The Man That Lived in a Box9When I Went to Get a Drink10Have You Met This Man?11This Man Came From Nowhere12This Man Went Away14I Met a Man That Was Trying to Whittle15The Man in the Onion Bed16I Met a Man That Lived in a House19I Met a Man I Could Not See22  \nto read it,and becausc he and Myra and Bcnn and I hace had such fun with it.  \nThen I Met Another Man I Could Not See 25I Met a Man With Three Eyes28This Man Had Six Eyes!30The Cat Heard the Cat-Bird33This Man Lives at My House Now37I Met a Man That Showed Me a Trick38I Met a Man That Was All Head40Guess42I Met a Man Right Here on the Pad44The Other Day When I Met Dick48I Met a Man That Was Coming Back51I Wish I Could Meet the Man That Knows 54I Met a Man Down in the Well58I Met a Man That Had Two Birds61I Met a Man That Was Playing Games65I Met a Man That Said,“Just Look!”68  \nTHESE POEMS were written for a special pleasure:I wanted towrite the first book my daughter read herself.To bring them withinher first-grade range,I based them on the two most elementaryword lists in general use.Those word lists contain a total of slightlymore than four hundred words.The word lists themselves,however,are obviously designed as a measure of minimum accomplishmentfor a first grader:they in no way measure the real reading accom-plishment of a bright child.  \nSuch a child,moreover,is bound to find a special pleasure inbeing led to recognize new words without outside help.Poetry isespecially well designed to lead the child to such recognition,forrhyme and pattern are always important clues.  \nI decided,therefore,to use the basic lists not as an absolute limit,but as a way of getting the beginning reader on the page by usinga vocabulary that would be largely familiar.With that assuranceand with the bribe of pleasure that is the reward of poetry,the childwill certainly be able not only to recognize the words in which hehas been drilled in the first-grade class,but to figure out new words.  \nThe basic devices of these poems for leading the child to newwords are rhyme,riddles,context,and word games.The point ofthe riddles,as far as learning is concerned,is that the child will beable to guess the word even without seeing it written.When he doessee it written,therefore,he will know what it is no matter howdifficult it may be in terms of graduated word lists.  \nSince my object was not only to engage the basic first-grade wordlist but to lead the child beyond it,I have gradually introducedslightly more difficult words into the poems.Almost any childhalfway through the first grade should be able to read the firstpoems.Any bright child toward the end of the first grade shouldbe able to solve the slight added difficulties of the later poems.Certainly there is no reason to shun a stumble or two:the child canalways ask for help on a particular word and then find 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