McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader

This final volume contains additional instructions for articulation along with directions for modulating the voice and enunciating words when reading aloud.

Selections are taken from the Bible, authors such as Lord Byron, Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dickens, Emerson, Ben Franklin, Irving, and even Thomas Jefferson.

This is a reproduction of a historical reader. The sixth eclectic reader contains a variety of selections for reading as well as suggestions for how to read aloud (articulation, inflection, etc.) Many selections contain information about the authors, so presumably students were meant to understand the pieces and not just learn how to read aloud. ( )