内容简介:呈现于读者面前的这套《美国经典语文课本:McGuffey Readers》,亦名《麦加菲读本》,其编者威廉·H·麦加菲曾先后任美国迈阿密大学语言学教授和俄亥俄大学校长。从移民时期以来,这套《美国经典语文课本:McGuffey Readers》影响了四五代美国人的成长,对奠定美国人的道德观与价值观起到了很大作用。本版《美国经典语文课本:McGuffey Readers》的突出特点是,在精彩的原文基础上,增加了导学功能。这一功能包括两个部分:一是课后训练(STUDY GUIDE),这些练习由加拿大公立学校教师与英语教学者共同编写,帮助读者更好地掌握词汇、学会阅读、理解思考;二是朗读制作,加拿大高中从事表演与视觉艺术教学的 Schwartz,利用工作之余的时间,重新录制和编辑配套朗读。配套英文朗读免费下载使用,详见图书封底博客信息。《美国经典语文课本:McGuffey Readers》第6册引用了莎士比亚、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。McGuffey Readers is a series of graded primers, including grade levels 1-6, widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. It is estimated that at least 125 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold till the year of 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary .In the sixth and final reader, 111 great authors were quoted,including Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickens and Addison.