McGuffey's Eclectic Readers: Second

The best classic readers ! I use these for teaching reading in my homeschool and they are wonderful. They are also free online which makes it even better. Highly recommend......more

Poems and short stories from picturesque 19th century America are compiled into this book. McGuffey Readers were the basic school curriculum used in one room school houses all across the United States. Now, replica prints of the original books are sold at historical sites, with all the same poems,......more

Great moral lessons. Some errors can be easily corrected through discussion. For example the story of George Washington and the cherry tree can be the springboard into the details that it was simply a moral lesson written in the 19th century, in fact near my own home. Amazingly there is a full on dis......more

Life is short,improve it well. The sand moves by little and little,but it moves all the time. when you look at the hands of the clock,you think they go very slowly, and so they do, but they never stop. While you are at play, the sand is running, grain by grain. The hands of the clock are moving, second......more

It's definitely fascinating to flip through a book of morality-based stories that are meant to teach young children proper behavior as they also learn to read. But fascinating only goes so far. Reading it in 2022, this primary textbook is little more than a snippet of historical, educational informa......more