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* Havighurst, Walter, '''Primer from a Green World''', American Heritage, August 1957 (available online at http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/5/1957_5_10.shtml)
* 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.
* Mosier, Richard D., '''Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers''' ISBN 0846205890
* Havighurst, Walter, ''[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1957/5/1957_5_10.shtml Primer from a Green World]'', American Heritage, August 1957
* Sullivan, Dolores P., '''William Holmes McGuffey: Schoolmaster to the Nation''' ISBN 0838635261
* Minnich, H.C., ''William Holmes McGuffey and his Readers''.
* Vail, Henry H., '''A History of the McGuffey Readers''' (available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15577)
* Monaghan, Jennifer, [http://w4.ed.uiuc.edu/faculty/westbury/paradigm/monaghan.html 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., ''[http://www.archive.org/details/historicaldevel00reedgoog 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, [http://www.readingonline.org/articles/scales/ ''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

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