McGuffey's Readers

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

Excerpts featured prominently in elocution books like “The Columbian Orator” and “The National Orator” and in the advanced McGuffey’s readers.

From New York Times

But many of these programs are little more than computerized rehashes of the old classroom flash cards that go back to the days of 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive