McGuffey Readers/Bibliography

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• Beechick, Ruth, Parent-Teacher Guide for the Original McGuffey Readers. A supplemental volume issued by the modern publishers of the 1836/37 edition of McGuffey Readers. Contains material on the teaching of phonics in general, the various stages in a child's reading ability, and lesson ideas for each of the 4 books in the series. ISBN 0-88062-038-2.
• Havighurst, Walter, Primer from a Green World, American Heritage, August 1957
• Minnich, H.C., William Holmes McGuffey and his Readers.
• Monaghan, Jennifer, The Textbook as a Commercial Enterprise: the Involvement of Noah Webster and William Holmes McGuffey in the Promotion of Their Reading Textbooks
• Mosier, Richard D., Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers' ISBN 0846205890
• Reeder, Rudolph R., The Historical Development of School Readers and Method in Teaching Reading Doctoral thesis, a classic in the field, first published in 1900, still offering a very good overview of the subject, including discussion of the New England Primer, Webster's Speller and McGuffey's Readers in addition to a section on the historical development oftechniques in the teaching of reading. Available on-line through Google Books.
• Scales, Alice B. and Li-Bi Shen, An Investigation of Questions in McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Readers
• Sullivan, Dolores P., William Holmes McGuffey: Schoolmaster to the Nation ISBN 0838635261
• Vail, Henry H., A History of the McGuffey Readers (available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15577)
• Richard Venezky, "A History of the American Reading Textbook." Elementary School Journal, 87 (3), 246-65.
• Westerhoff, John H., McGuffey and His Readers: Piety, Morality and Education in Nineteenth-Century America. Biographical sketch of W.H. McGuffey and an analysis of his Readers and their place and influence in the history of education in America. Contains a section giving the table of contents of each volume of the original 1836-37 edition, plus selected stories from each of the 4 books in that series. ISBN 0-88062-006-4