McGuffey's Readers

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1. A series of books prepared principally by William H. McGuffey, a midwestern teacher, and designed to teach reading to schoolchildren. The series began to appear in the 1830s. It was widely used in the nineteenth century and is still used by some schools today.

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McGuffey's Readers

McGuffey's Readers marked a milestone in U.S. education.

From Time Magazine Archive

Principal Raymond Oestreich attacked the McGuffey's Readers because of "antiquated grammar, misspelled words and poor punctuation."

From Time Magazine Archive

To West Finley Township, Pa. went Henry Ford to visit the birthplace of the man who wrote McGuffey's Readers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is usually known as the place where McGuffey's Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football.

From Time Magazine Archive

He replied that he had done so in the public schools of Japan and added, "I learned my English from McGuffey's Readers, with which you are no doubt familiar."

From A History of the McGuffey Readers by Henry Hobart Vail

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