William Holmes McGuffey House and Museum. We aim to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit materials relating to the life of William Holmes McGuffey, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader series, the ...

A historical marker honoring William Holmes McGuffey, creator of the McGuffey’s Eclectic Reader, is located in Claysville. After the Civil War, McGuffey’s readers were the most common school books in ...

William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800-May 4, 1873) was a college professor and president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of elementary school ...

The McGuffey Readers taught reading through phonics and repetition, reinforced vocabulary in context, and emphasized comprehension and oration. Their incremental structure ensured mastery, ...

The McGuffey Readers became popular to the extent that Henry Ford paid to have the series republished, Scarsella said, adding that financial gain was never a motive for the famous storyteller, ...

Early in the 20th century, the sternly preachy anthologies called McGuffey's Eclectic Readers faded out of the American classroom. Ever since, many elementary-school teachers have been stumped by ...

"The first difficulty was Philip," recalls Pamela Hansford Johnson, wife of British Novelist C. P. Snow, and herself a noted novelist (The Unspeakable Skipton). Their son Philip was eight ...

McGuffey wrote and compiled his first four Readers in his new home. They were made up of his own writings, clippings from periodicals, and selections from standard works. The famous octagonal table at ...