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William created the first four readers and Alexander McGuffey created the fifth and sixth reader. [1] [2] [3] About 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. [4] Since 1961, they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. [4]
William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800 – May 4, 1873) 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.
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William wrote the first four readers, and was believed to have had assistance from Alexander McGuffey, who wrote the Fifth and Sixth Reader. [4] [1] [5] He entered into a contract with W. B. Smith on September 30, 1841 to create a rhetorical reading book. The McGuffey’s Rhetorical Guide or Fifth Reader of the Eclectic Series was published in ...
The William H. McGuffey House is a historic house museum at 401 East Spring Street, on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, United States.Built in 1833, it was the home of author and professor William Holmes McGuffey (1800–1873) from then until 1836.
California passed a law in 2023 requiring that “cursive or joined italics” be taught for first through sixth grades. The law’s author said it was so students could read primary source ...