Ryan Tenerowicz
History P.5
11/3/16
William H. McGuffey
William Holmes Mcguffey was an education reformer who made the widely popular and successful elementary school books, the Eclectic Readers, but they are more well known as the McGuffey Readers. Born the son of Alexander and Anna (Holmes) McGuffey near Claysville in West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is 45 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1802 the McGuffey family moved farther out into the frontier at Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He attended country school, and after receiving special instruction at Youngstown, he attended Greersburg Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Pennsylvania's Washington College, where he became …show more content…
He believed students learned from whole to part (not from part to whole, a feature of the alphabet method.) He made learning to read and write more reasonable to students. Using a different approach of "whole to part", McGuffey made a series of textbooks for student use. Each level got increasingly difficult, making the learning a gradual process. This also made teaching easier because the approach was more effective and understandable. The textbooks greatly helped the students understand, lessening the work of the teacher. McGuffey's books sold very well, as more and more schools started to accept this new way of teaching. His books were the first to have a series in which the curriculum got more and more difficult each volume. This education reform aided in the improvement of reading and writing. McGuffey's books became the first standardized reading text for most schools across the U.S. He made a system of levels that made teaching methods more effective. To this day there are many volumes of reading and writing textbooks that are used in schools in the United States. These volumes usually have levels too, just like McGuffey's did. We still use the same methods of part to whole teaching, and we use the same system of books as they did in the early to mid
History P.5
11/3/16
William H. McGuffey
William Holmes Mcguffey was an education reformer who made the widely popular and successful elementary school books, the Eclectic Readers, but they are more well known as the McGuffey Readers. Born the son of Alexander and Anna (Holmes) McGuffey near Claysville in West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is 45 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1802 the McGuffey family moved farther out into the frontier at Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He attended country school, and after receiving special instruction at Youngstown, he attended Greersburg Academy in Darlington, Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Pennsylvania's Washington College, where he became …show more content…
He believed students learned from whole to part (not from part to whole, a feature of the alphabet method.) He made learning to read and write more reasonable to students. Using a different approach of "whole to part", McGuffey made a series of textbooks for student use. Each level got increasingly difficult, making the learning a gradual process. This also made teaching easier because the approach was more effective and understandable. The textbooks greatly helped the students understand, lessening the work of the teacher. McGuffey's books sold very well, as more and more schools started to accept this new way of teaching. His books were the first to have a series in which the curriculum got more and more difficult each volume. This education reform aided in the improvement of reading and writing. McGuffey's books became the first standardized reading text for most schools across the U.S. He made a system of levels that made teaching methods more effective. To this day there are many volumes of reading and writing textbooks that are used in schools in the United States. These volumes usually have levels too, just like McGuffey's did. We still use the same methods of part to whole teaching, and we use the same system of books as they did in the early to mid