Education was a high propriety for the new nation. During this time, teachers developed many innovative education practices that
would be used in American schools for years to come. Read about influential educator, William Holmes McGuffey. Based on the passage, what are three common educational practices that began with the use of McGuffey readers? How did they represent improvements in education?
McGuffey created a series of four graded readers for primary-level students witch help greatly in the development of students grammar knowledge. The "readers" he created didn't just help with grammar but also shaped many peoples outlook on morality and society. He also was set on redevelop the lost art of public speaking.
McGuffey's Readers were among the first textbooks in the United States designed to be increasingly challenging with each volume. They used word repetition in the text as a learning tool, developing reading skills by challenging students using the books. Sounding-out, enunciation, and accents were emphasized. He also used the first Reader, and this taught reading by using the phonics method—the identification of letters and their arrangement into words.
