美国语文读本-6 内容简介
这套读本的英文原版共分七级，包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与**级篇幅都较少，难易程度也很接近，于是将之合并为第1册，其余2-6级与英文原版相同。这样国内出版的这套读本共包括6册。
本书引用了莎士比亚、朗费罗、狄更斯、艾迪生等名家名篇，通过一篇篇短小精悍的故事，将道德教育的内容倾注于作品之中，让孩子在欣赏这些优美文章的同时，从中感受到道德教育的力量。
美国语文读本-6 目录
lesson 1 anecdote of the duke of newcastle
lesson 2 the needle
lesson 3 dawn
lesson 4 description of a storm
lesson 5 after the thunderstorm
lesson 6 house cleaning
lesson 7 schemes of life often illusory
lesson 8 the brave old oak
lesson 9 the artist surprised
lesson 10 pictures of memory
lesson 11 the morning oratorio
lesson 12 short selections in poetry
lesson 13 death of little nell
lesson 14 vanity of life
lesson 15 a political pause
美国语文读本-6 节选
《美国语文读本6(美国原版经典语文课本)》：这套读本的英文原版共分七级，包括启蒙读本和第1-6级。考虑到启蒙读本与**级篇幅都较少，难易程度也很接近，于是将之合并为第1册，其余2-6级与英文原版相同。这样国内出版的这套读本共包括6册。《美国语文读本6(美国原版经典语文课本)》引用了莎士比亚、朗费罗、狄更斯、艾迪生等名家名篇，通过一篇篇短小精悍的故事，将道德教育的内容倾注于作品之中，让孩子在欣赏这些优美文章的同时，从中感受到道德教育的力量。This series of schoolbooks teaching reading and moral precepts, originally prepared by William Holmes who was a professor at Miami University McGuffey, had a profound influence on public education in the United States. The eclectic readers, meaning that the selections were chosen from a number of sources, were considered remarkably literary works and probably exerted a greater influence upon literary tastes in the United States more than any other book, excluding the Bible. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark. McGuffey's Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.In the sixth and final reader of 1885, there were 186 selections, 111 great authors were quoted such as Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens and Addison. The theme of the selections included several forms of composition, description, narration, argumentation and exposition. In this book there were also seventeen selections from the Bible.
美国语文读本-6 作者简介
威廉·H·麦加菲，美国著名教育家。1800年出生于宾夕法尼亚州，1826年毕业于华盛顿大学杰斐逊学院。在数十年教育生涯中，他曾担任过迈阿密大学语言学教授，俄亥俄大学校长。自1845年开始任弗吉尼亚大学道德哲学教授。他还帮助组建了俄亥俄州公立学校体系。
早在19世纪初期，麦加菲就意识到，应该给那些孤独的垦荒者和欧洲移民的后代提供普遍的教育，于是他利用自己作为演讲家与教育工作者的天赋，开始为孩子们编写系列教材。这套教材共7册，从学龄前至第6年级。他前后花费了20多年的时间才完成全套教材的编写。这套教材面世后就被美国很多学校选为课本。在75年间销量高达1.22亿，直到今天仍以各种版本流行于西方，被美国《出版周刊》评为“人类出版史上第三大畅销书”，对美国青年的心灵塑造与道德培养产生了史无前例的影响。
