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McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader

By William Holmes McGuffey

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

Explore a collection of stories and lessons designed to teach children how to read while instilling lessons about kindness, responsibility, and the values of hard work.

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2005-01-23
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Summary

"McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader" by William Holmes McGuffey is a 19th-century educational book made to assist young children in learning to read using stories with moral lessons. This book uses a mix of lessons, stories, poems, and teaches phonetics, articulation, punctuation, and comprehension to help children succeed. The book uses characters like a boy in nature and a child experiencing snow to create an engaging experience. The goal of this book is to teach children important values such as kindness, responsibility, as well as hard work, intending to support educators in educating children.

About the Author

William Holmes McGuffey was an American college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school-level textbooks. More than 120 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.

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