McGuffey Readers

Learning to read the McGuffey way offers: Phonics foundations, Moral growth, and Rich vocabulary. McGuffey Readers teach reading with content that promotes moral growth and excellence of mind in habits, attitudes, and literary tastes. And Bible selections are part of the reading list.

McGuffey Readers teach phonics skills for beginning reading. Methods and timing should be adapted to the individuality of each child. McGuffey Readers teach memorizing as a way to develop habits of attention that promote understanding and mastery of learning, even for studies which are not memorized.

McGuffey Readers are designed to build a wide vocabulary by learning words in their context. For example, studying the important ideas and noble thoughts presented in the Readers.

The principles used by McGuffey's Readers produce the education that shaped American character, particularly in the West, for over one hundred years. It's the kind of education the majority of Americans want and need today. IT'S TIME FOR THE CLASSICS AGAIN.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Holmes McGuffey [1800-1873] was a "born" educator. Beginning by teaching his younger brothers and sisters, William McGuffey accepted his first teaching position at 13 in a one-room school with 48 students. After graduating from Washington College and being ordained as a Presbyterian minister, he taught moral philosophy at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for almost ten years. It was during this period that McGuffey wrote and compiled the Readers which made him famous. Later McGuffey rose to the rank of university president, serving Cincinnati College and Ohio University, but spent the final third of his life teaching moral philosophy at the University of Virginia.