McGuffey Readers
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Oct 30, 2026
Bill MasonHOST
I just ordered – and I'm going to do a single show on this one day.
Bill MasonHOST
I just got in the mail the set of the McGuffey Readers, the original ones from the 1800s.
Bill MasonHOST
Okay.
Bill MasonHOST
Yeah.
Sherry HayesGUEST
Getting into city college is just a matter of taking a test.
Sherry HayesGUEST
Now, I use the McGuffey Readers, and I try to get my children used to reading complex sentences and use greater vocabulary and be good writers.
Sherry HayesGUEST
This is very important.
Sherry HayesGUEST
They need to know how to research.
Janae DanielsHOST
The focus was on can they verbally do it out loud because it takes a different set of skills.
Janae DanielsHOST
and can they process it in their brain and then verbally do it out loud with the McGuffey readers today? Even as my daughter and I were going over McGuffey readers, we got to the spelling list and I had her verbally spell out all the words, right? She didn't write them down.
Janae DanielsHOST
She verbally spelled them out.
Janae DanielsHOST
So the beginning they're working on spelling.
Bill ParsonsHOST
The next thing I'm gonna talk about coming up, uh, on Thursday, which is tomorrow, is education.
Bill ParsonsHOST
Um, I just ordered a copy of the old McGuffey Readers from the 1800s.
Bill ParsonsHOST
They were printed right here in Ohio.
Bill ParsonsHOST
Um, and I was going through these books, right, these readers that every kid got back in school in the 1800s, [clears throat] and it's just incredible how far our education system has slipped.
Janae DanielsHOST
Okay, help me out here.
Janae DanielsHOST
Did y'all not do literature analysis as we think of in public school? Did you just read to your kids? Did you assign books to them to read independently? Did you have some kids who you just read to and they didn't do much other reading besides that even though they could read? and then i wrote back i read to i read to my children as a group and they are expected to read books independently at least 30 minutes daily we also go through the mcguffey readers she followed up with when you say go through do you mean you just have them read them do you do anything else with them besides that like sherry's lesson book What do they read for 30 minutes per day? Books they chose? Books you assign? If you assign them, then what are the topics? Do you have them write about them or just read and discuss or just read? The first thing that we do is read aloud.
Janae DanielsHOST
Now, I have done a couple other videos on reading aloud, the benefits of reading aloud, why we should read aloud.
Janae DanielsHOST
But when I do a read aloud, I choose it for the kids.
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Janae DanielsHOST
But most of the time I choose the text because I want to make sure it's at the appropriate level for the child and it's an appropriate book for the child.
Janae DanielsHOST
And then once they're often reading on their own for pleasure, like my now 18-year-old daughter who reads nonstop, They 100%, at that point, when they're older, they choose all the texts that they want once I know that the comprehension is there.
Janae DanielsHOST
The third thing that we do for reading comprehension is we use the McGuffey Readers.
Janae DanielsHOST
Now, this is a reprint.
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