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Still the best series for learning to read.

McGuffey developed his reader at Miami University of Ohio - there is a campus museum filled with his readers. He laid the basics for many American children to use while learning to read. This copy is in very bad shape. Actual copy is from the Flanagan Family and is filled with notes and so forth.

fun stories, probably 3rd grade, Guy and Maeli can likely read it now in 2018

5537. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader I879 Edition by William Holmes McGuffey (read 28 Feb 2018) I read this cover to cover. It contains a lot of boring or cloying stuff which I can imagine kids who had to read it were a bit distressed by. I know my parents went to school and were not in grades--they went till they had finished the sixth reader. To get further education they would have had to leave home. My parents did not leave home but I never felt they were uneducated. Occasionally this reader had poems which I had committed to memory and it was neat to read those familiar lines, such as "Arnold Winkelried",, "Rock Me To Sleep", "The Village Blacksmith", and "Break, Break, Break", and poems I did not memorize but much appreciate such as "Burial of Sir John Moore" and "The Soldier of the Rhine". And a few of the prose pieces are exciting such as "The Crazy Engineer" and a play excerpt from William Tell by Sheridan Knowles. Unusual reading but not without its compensations.

Here I note that this is not a later reproduction. This is the actual "McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide; or Fifth Reader of The Eclectic Series" from 1853. As I note in the comments field for this book, "this is more like the Sixth Reader of the 1990s publication, but in terms of entries is totally different," and there are no illustrations.

One can see from the various 'diacritical' marks, that the essays and poetry in this volume were intended to be memorized and spoken aloud before a classroom of fellow students, or possibly before an audience of parents and fellow citizens.

Should you be so fortunate as to find a copy of this book, you will find it interesting reading if for no other reason than the 'cutoff date' of 1853. And may your copy have as many notes and marginalia as Riolley F. Rathmell provided in this copy!

These are the original 1837 McGuffey Readers before the secular revisions, with slight revisions of archaic grammar. Four Readers and a Study Guide make up this 5 volume set.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating the manner in which students learned to spell for the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students learned were learning such advanced words at such a young age.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating pre-Kindergarten/early-elementary school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students learned cursive at such a young age.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating elementary school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students were exposed to more advanced reading at a younger age than they typically are now.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating elementary school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students were exposed to more advanced reading at a younger age than they typically are now.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating late-elementary/early-middle school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students had access to such a wide range of topics.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating middle school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students had access to such a wide range of topics.

These reproductions of McGuffey's readers are useful volumes for those interested in the history of education in America. The content is faithful to the original and the binding is sturdy. I work at a living history museum and we use these in our 19th century schoolhouse to demonstrate how children learned to read. This volume works well in demonstrating late-middle/early-high school reading and visitors to the museum often find it interesting that students had access to such a wide range of topics.

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Illustration on t.p.

On verso of t.-p.: Electrotyped at Franklin Type Foundry, Cincinnati. Eclectic Press: Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati.

I'm of mixed feelings about these as a teaching tool. They were a concise reference for several students of different ages, very basic stuff. We used them and my children are articulate young adults now, but they did get tired of these before we worked through them all, so we stopped and moved on to whole books instead.

Articulation exercises and punctuation review to start with and ending with longer selections of stories and poetry. Gives definitions for new words instead of just the pronunciation.

Contains instructions on punctuation with longer readings. Words learned are those such as obedient, linger, contriving, breathe, merchant, pricked, caressed, and grazing. Each lesson introduces 10-15 words.

The first couple lessons cover the same ground found in the primer, but by the middle of the book the characters are conversing with each other. The final two sentences are: "Be kind to all, and do not waste your time in school. When you go home, you may ask your parents to get you a Second Reader."

Four to eight new words are taught in each lesson, but there's not enough support to make it a stand-alone reader. Children will still require substantial help.

Begins with "A cat and a rat", moves quickly into more complex readings such as "If the boat can not get to them, they will drown", and culminates with the poem: "All you do, and all you say / He can see and hear; / When you work and when you play / Think the Lord is near."

This final volume contains additional instructions for articulation along with directions for modulating the voice and enunciating words when reading aloud.

Selections are taken from the Bible, authors such as Lord Byron, Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dickens, Emerson, Ben Franklin, Irving, and even Thomas Jefferson.

This is a reproduction of a historical reader. The sixth eclectic reader contains a variety of selections for reading as well as suggestions for how to read aloud (articulation, inflection, etc.) Many selections contain information about the authors, so presumably students were meant to understand the pieces and not just learn how to read aloud.

As with the McGuffey's Primer, this is a reproduction of an old school book. It follows a basic phonics instruction pattern, and gets progressively more difficult. I do not think, however, that it provides enough practice, and I wonder how teachers would instruct students in one room schools.

This is a reproduction of the original. This phonics based beginning instruction book makes me wonder how kids learned how to read with it. A teacher would definitely have to explain the principles of phonics to any student attempting to learn with this, but I'm picturing children learning with it in one room school houses and having difficulty because there are so many gaps and so little explanation.