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	THE MCGUFFEY READERS - 1836 version
		McGuffey was a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Presbyterian minister.
		McGuffey became a "roving" teacher at the age of 14, beginning with 48 students in a one room school in Calcutta, Ohio.
		The third Reader taught the definitions of words, and was written at a level equivalent to the modern 5th or 6th grade.
	www.mcguffeyreaders.com /1836_original.htm (2588 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of A History of the McGuffey Readers, by Henry H. Vail.
		The story of these readers is told in the specimens of the several editions, in the long treasured and time-worn contracts, in the books of accounts kept by the successive publishers, and in the traditions which have been passed down from white haired men who gossiped of the early days in the schoolbook [4] business.
		The success of the McGuffey Readers was due primarily to their adaptation to the general demand [66] of the schools and secondarily to the energy and skill of their publishers.
		The McGuffey Readers, from their own peculiar inherent qualities, retained their hold upon the schools until in some states laws were passed which in their operation caused schoolbooks to be regarded as commodities estimated almost solely upon the cost of paper, printing and binding.
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	McGuffey Readers - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.
		The author of the Readers, William Holmes McGuffey, was born September 23, 1800, near Claysville, Pennsylvania, and moved to Youngstown, Ohio with his parents in 1802.
		McGuffey became a "roving" teacher at the age of 14, beginning with 48 students in a one room school in Calcutta, Ohio.
	www.music.us /education/M/McGuffey-Readers.htm (1645 words)

	William McGuffey - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		McGuffey, William Holmes (1800-1873), American clergyman, college professor, and public education advocate best known for compiling the...
		William Holmes McGuffey at Miami University, 1826-1836 Produced by the Miami University Libraries in cooperation with the McGuffey Museum
		William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 - May 4, 1873) was an American professor who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America's first textbooks.
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	The Museum Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The third Reader taught the definitions of words, and was written at a level equivalent to the modern 5th or 6th grade.
		McGuffey's Readers were among the first textbooks in America that were designed to become progressively more challenging with each volume.
		McGuffey's name was continued on these revised editions, yet he neither contributed to them nor approved their content.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/Gazettes/McGuffey.html (1388 words)

	William Holmes McGuffey - Schoolmaster to the Nation
		McGuffey readers were the primary elementary school textbooks in the United States for 75 years, have sold over 120 million copies, and are still published today.
		By the late 1800's the McGuffey readers, as Sullivan documents, were revised to the standards of the times, which included molding the contents of the texts to conform to maximizing monetary profit, which had been inconsequential to McGuffey, and to appeal to the broadest potential market.
		As a result McGuffey's objective of instilling nondenominational religious values was compromised and replaced by the accepted goals of the industrial age, physical and materialistic rewards.
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	McGuffey's Readers
		McGuffey's educational course begins, in the Primer, by presenting the letters of the alphabet to be memorized, in sequence.
		The Primer (64 pgs.) McGuffey's educational course begins by presenting the letters of the alphabet to be memorized, in sequence.
		Material in the readers is taken from the writings which extol, explain, and illustrates such virtues as honesty, charity, thrift, hard work, courage, patriotism, reverence toward God, and respect for parents.
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	The Differences in the McGuffey Readers (The Facts from 1911) - HStreasures.com
		In 1837 the Third and Fourth McGuffey Readers were printed.
		The First McGuffey Reader was mostly in words of one syllable.
		Another, most disturbing issue we had with the earlier McGuffey's was the tone and manner in which God was conveyed to the children.
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	Colorado Association of School Boards - McGuffey Awards
		The McGuffey Readers were a series of seven books with stories and poems that not only taught kids reading and grammar, but also helped them develop good qualities.
		It was one of the most widely used and influential textbooks of its time in transferring not only knowledge, but also certain virtues required to fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship in a free society.
		The CASB McGuffey Award has been designed to honor that unique board member who brings to his/her board work both the head and the heart of committed and passionate service.
	www.casb.org /pages/about-casb/awards/mcguffey-awards (0 words)

	McGuffey Readers Homeschool Reading Lesson Plans
		McGuffey readers and lesson plans have been used for over a hundred years.
		This hardback McGuffey book has 242 pages and is recommended for grades 4 and 5.
		This hardback McGuffey book has 256 pages and is recommended for grades 6, 7, and 8.
	www.learningthings.com /categories/MCGUFFEY.htm (1351 words)

	Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford
		As McGuffey was educated, and later tried to educate others in the scattered and isolated settlements of the western frontier, he got a true sense of how desperately children needed an easy, standardized way of learning to read and write.
		McGuffey’s Readers were born out of the influences of both William’s Scots-Irish heritage and his experiences living and teaching out on the western frontier.
		The McGuffey Readers were successful because they spoke to their time and place.
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	William Holmes McGuffey
		In 1829 McGuffey was ordained to the ministry by the Oxford Presbytery at
		McGuffey prepared the Primer, keeping her authorship secret from a sense of modesty and delicacy.
		McGuffey's first contract with a publisher for his Readers called for a royalty of 10 per cent until he should receive $1,000.
	www.units.muohio.edu /mcguffeymuseum/mcguffey.html (0 words)

	McGuffey's Readers
		McGuffey's educational course begins, in the Primer, by presenting the letters of the alphabet to be memorized, in sequence.
		The child is not, however, encouraged to believe that charity is expected only of the wealthy; it is a virtue to be cultivated by the young, practiced by all.
		Material in the readers is taken from writings, which extol, explain, and illustrate such virtues as honesty, charity, thrift, hard work, courage, patriotism, reverence for God, and respect for parents.
	www.mtsu.edu /~tsbrown/mrch21110.htm (0 words)

	PURITAN NEWS WEEKLY
		McGuffey went on to be ordained as a Presbyterian minister and to serve as president of two colleges in Ohio.
		Alexander assisted his brother with the famous readers and was alone responsible for the 1838 speller and the fifth reader.
		Sadly, the McGuffey brothers – like the overwhelming majority of Americans – swallowed the lie that was inherent in the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.
	www.puritans.net /news/mcguffey030105.htm (1284 words)

	History of Literacy: BOOK REVIEW: William Holmes McGuffey
		Their disagreements extended to courses with Professor McGuffey yearning "for an opportunity to be reassigned (from Latin and Greek) to philosophy and religion courses, taught ably by Dr. Bishop."(p.61).
		McGuffey, however, was paid only $1,000 and, in later years, he was given a barrel of ham each Christmas.
		For example, James W. Kirchansky, who uses the McGuffey Readers in his 3R Schools in California, says that "80 percent of American children are cripples in their reading ability." Half the adults of the postwar generation are "functional illiterates who cannot understand a newspaper editorial page" (p.
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	Curriculum and Instruction Information
		McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers were first used in 1836, and are considered by many as America’s most famous pedagogical tools, and are still in use.
		McGuffey, but it was developed out of the same concept as the earlier editions.
		The Readers not only taught a youngster to read, they were also a primary source of information about history, philosophy, and science.
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	William Holmes McGuffey - 4th Ohio University President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		McGuffey came to the presidency at age 38 from the same position at the Cincinnati College, where he had gone from a professorship at Miami University.
		Additional problems, stemming from disagreements between McGuffey and the University community, included an extreme drop in staff and students.
		As a result President McGuffey resigned and assumed a position at Cincinnati's Woodward high school and then moved to a professorship at the University of Virginia.
	www.ohiou.edu:8080 /athens/history/people/mcguffey.html (0 words)

	Miami University: About Miami
		McGuffey Museum has been a registered National Historic Landmark since 1966, honoring the significance of William Holmes McGuffey and the McGuffey Eclectic Readers.
		Marrying Harriet Spining of Dayton in 1827, Professor McGuffey bought Outlot 9 and the small frame house upon it in 1828 and, by 1833, had completed the two-story brick house to replace the original dwelling.
		McGuffey Museum, located on the corner of Oak and Spring Streets, is open Tuesday through Sunday, 1-5 p.m..
	www.miami.muohio.edu /about_miami/virtual_tour/campusmap/sw/mcguffey_museum.cfm (0 words)

	Home Educator's Family Times
		Readers were books published solely for the purpose of teaching children to read out loud. In a time when there were no TV1s, no radios, and no phonographs, listening to someone read was a common form of entertainment.
		The McGuffey Readers published in 1878 that claims to be a Fourth Reader is NOT for fourth grade.
		Any of the 9th century readers can be used for dictation, memorization and recitation. They have a healthy selection of both prose and poetry. They are ideal for reading aloud, since that was their purpose all along.
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	McGuffey's readers
		The Christian Eclectic Readers and Study Guide™ give you what is missing from ALL other existing editions of the readers: an easy-to-follow teacher’s manual that shows you how to use the readers to teach your children to reason cogently, write clearly, and speak persuasively — all within the Christian worldview.
		Even though the original readers are unsurpassed in quality, their archaic spelling, style, grammar, and punctuation make them difficult for modern readers to use.
		McGuffey’s questions grow out of the stories and are just the kind you want your children to be able to answer.
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	Reading Online - Articles: Questions in McGuffey’s Second Readers
		During the nineteenth century, the McGuffey readers were used to teach millions of children in the United States to read (Spring, 1986).
		The McGuffey readers had great longevity (Nietz, 1964), and their promotion of teaching techniques (e.g., vocabulary study, word identification, questioning) could have been the subject of considerable research over the years.
		With Emerson’s (1833) reader, pupils were supposed to read the text, and then teachers were to question pupils about the text’s general meaning and important vocabulary.
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	Vindy.com - McGuffey descendants to donate letters
		They have a special interest in seeing that the documents are preserved: Anna McGuffey Harris, sister of William Holmes McGuffey, was their great-great-grandmother.
		McGuffey, regarded as the "Schoolmaster to America" for his McGuffey "Eclectic Readers" published in the 1800s, grew up in nearby Coitsville Township.
		McGuffey saw to Erastus' education and the young man grew up to become a doctor.
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		The fifth reader was designed for elocutionary exercises to increase articulation, inflection, pitch, accent, rate, emphasis and gesture.
		In the sixth and final reader of 1885, there were 186 selections, 111 great authors were quoted such as Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens and Addison.
		These "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.
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	McGuffey, William Holmes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He helped to organize the public school system of Ohio but is now remembered chiefly as the compiler of the McGuffey Eclectic Readers, the First and Second of which were published in 1836, the Third and Fourth in 1837, the Fifth in 1844, and the Sixth in 1857.
		These were constantly revised and passed through edition after edition, maintaining their place for nearly two generations; their estimated sales totaled 122 million copies.
		A memorial was erected to McGuffey at his birthplace in West Finley township, Pa., in 1931.
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	McGuffey Readers Home School Curriculum
		McGuffey readers offer a proven reading curriculum for classroom and home school.
		McGuffey readers and home school curriculum have been used for over a hundred years.
		This hardback McGuffey book has 256 pages and is recommended for grades 6, 7, and 8.
	www.homeschooldiscount.com /subjects/child/MCGUFFEY.htm (1687 words)

	McGuffey Readers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Before McGuffey, the schoolbook which had educated generations of American youth had been the old New England Primer.
		Fifteen sets of School Readers were published between 1820 and 1841, but the McGuffey series ran away from all the rest.
		The first lesson in the First Reader is "A is for Ax." At that time the ax was clearing roads and fields; building barns, dwellings, churches and schoolhouses.
	www.units.muohio.edu /mcguffeymuseum/readers.html (0 words)

	HomeSchoolReviews.com Forums: McGuffey readers and other curric. from Mott Media
		The readers were not meant to be grade level readers.
		Green Eggs and Ham, and other such readers are so long and they are too difficult for a beginner.
		McGuffey stories are short and the difficulty slowly increases.
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	Keepers Curriculum
		Each week’s workbook lessons are based on one story in the McGuffey Reader.
		The workbooks are essential to your child developing advanced phonetics, helping your child to become an excellent speller, and develop good reading comprehension.
		Both are essential for the early years and both are based on the McGuffey Readers.
	www.keepersofthefaith.com /Catalog/Curriculum/McGuffeyFAQs.asp (0 words)

	McGuffey Readers from Mott Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The stories cover a wide range of subjects from science to history to manners to Bible.
		We use the 1st-4th readers in our home for oral reading.
		For the early reader -- it will help with fluency and confidence.
	www.thedowsschoolroom.com /mcguffeyreaders.shtml (159 words)

	Classical Homeschooling Newsletter
		McGuffey is best remembered as compiler and editor of a series of primary school texts, the Eclectic Readers.
		The National Cardinal Readers are the Catholic euqivalent to McGuffey's Readers: These readers can be obtained from Kolbe Academy and other Catholic Book suppliers.
		It is geared for a independent reader who does not need the added motivation of arcade style games and colorful video clips to work through the material.
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	Back to McGuffey - TIME
		Most school boards, even if they wanted McGuffey's Readers, would have supposed them out of print; the Twin Lakes men discovered that American Book Co. began to reprint them in the '20s to the order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios —with their antiquated typography and illustrations—to send to his friends.
		Beula and Co. found the old readers to be just the ticket: McGuffey gives a firm phonetic grounding and follows up with stories that bug a child's eyes out.
		Principal Raymond Oestreich attacked the McGuffey's Readers because of "antiquated grammar, misspelled words and poor punctuation." One teacher refused to use it.
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