McGuffey's Readers And Ray's Arithmetic

Or how to raise all Valedictorians. Homeschool for 2 yrs.of K-6. Then have them do homework after school before any other activities and not to be shy about telling their teachers that they want an A; and be willing to fulfill the requirements. It worked with our kids. 4 kids. 4 Valedictorians. And we only homeschooled our 1st 2 children for 2 yrs. and the other 2 followed suit automatically.

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 Ray's Arithmetic:

In America's one-room schoolhouses, Ray's Arithmetic was used alongside the McGuffey Readers. These are exact reproductions of the originals and their small size (4.5" x 7.25") cause one difficulty. They do not easily lay flat, making copying difficult. But the no-nonsense topic coverage provides old-fashioned competence so it is easy to understand why they are recommended by The Well-Trained Mind. Primary Arithmetic covers all four basic functions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division in single digits with word and money problems. New Intellectual Arithmetic reviews those four functions with multiple digits adding fractions and introducing ratio and percent. Practical Arithmetic continues the four functions along with fractions, decimals, percents, metrics, and introduces interest, discount, insurance, taxes, ration, proportions, square and cube roots, measurement, and progressions. Higher Arithmetic reviews the four functions and continues more advanced work in all the Practical Arithmetic topics including percentage applications with and without time. The Teacher's Guide, designed to encourage teacher-student interaction, provides a scope and sequence as well as general information on math instructional stages (i.e. manipulatives, mental, abstract). There are also grade by grade teaching sequences along with a Planning Guide that shows a typical day and suggests weekly lesson plans as well as providing an assessment chart and test schedule. SC.~ Janice

McGuffey's Readers: 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. MCGuffey's Reader This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts, originally prepared by William Holmes McGuffey in 1836, had a profound influence on public education in the United States. McGuffey was a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Presbyterian minister. A Cincinnati publishing firm asked him to compile a series of graded readers adapted to the values, beliefs, and way of life of "Western people." As a young schoolmaster, McGuffey had used the eighteenth-century Puritans' New England Primer, Noah Webster's American Spelling Book, and the Bible. His Eclectic First Reader and Eclectic Second Reader were published in 1836, the Third and Fourth in 1837. They contained stories of widely varied subject matter appealing to youngsters and taught religious, moral, and ethical principles that reflected both McGuffey's personality and society at the time. McGuffey's brother Alexander produced the Fifth Reader in 1844, a spelling book in 1846, and a Sixth Reader in 1857. The McGuffey Readers reflect their author's personal philosophies, as well as his rough and tumble early years as a frontier school teacher. The finished works represented far more than a group of textbooks; they helped frame the country's morals and tastes, and shaped the American character. The lessons in the Readers encouraged standards of morality and society throughout the United States for more than a century. They dealt with the natural curiosity of children; emphasized work and an independent spirit; encouraged an allegiance to country, and an understanding of the importance of religious values. The Readers were filled with stories of strength, character, goodness and truth. The books presented a variety of contrasting viewpoints on many issues and topics, and drew moral conclusions about lying, stealing, cheating, poverty, teasing, alcohol, overeating, skipping school and foul language. The books taught children to seek an education and continue to learn throughout their lives. Even though there were originally four Readers, most schools of the 19th century used only the first two. The first Reader taught reading by using the phonics method, the identification of letters and their arrangement into words, and aided with slate work. The second Reader came into play once the student could read, and helped them to understand the meaning of sentences while providing vivid stories which children could remember. The third Reader taught the definitions of words, and was written at a level equivalent to the modern 5th or 6th grade. The fourth Reader was written for the highest levels of ability on the grammar school level, which students completed with this book. McGuffey's Readers were among the first textbooks in America that were designed to become progressively more challenging with each volume. They used word repetition in the text as a learning tool, which built strong reading skills through challenging reading. Sounding-out, enunciation and accents were emphasized. Colonial-era texts had offered dull lists of 20 to 100 new words per page for memorization. In contrast, McGuffey used new vocabulary words in the context of real literature, gradually introducing new words and carefully repeating the old. McGuffey believed that teachers should study the lessons as well as their students, and suggested they read aloud to their classes. He also listed questions after each story, for he believed in order for a teacher to give instruction they must ask questions. McGuffey desired to improve students' spelling, sharpen their vocabulary and redevelop the lost art of public speaking. In the 19th century, elocution was a part of every public occasion, and McGuffey was responsible for creating a generation of gifted orators and readers. Although famous as the author of the Readers, McGuffey wrote very few other works. He was athletic, loved children, had a sparkling sense of humor, and enjoyed a good joke. McGuffey left Miami University for positions of successively greater responsibility at Cincinnati College, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and Woodward College in Cincinnati (where he served as president). He ended his career as a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Through the hard times of the Civil War and following, McGuffey was known for his philanthropy and generosity among the poor and African-Americans. William McGuffey died in 1873, a success as an educator, lecturer and author.