This is a small sample from my Eclectic Speller that the students use to have fun reading and build reading fluency.
GRADE 1 PHONETIC ECLECTIC SPELLER COMPLETE BETA
McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, by W. H. McGuffey
Spelling Tips for Dyslexic Students
How to Teach Spelling: Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Are you teaching spelling wrong and giving spelling test the wrong way? Many teachers have given up on spelling test or just assign the words in the reading program and give the end of week test. Spelling takes three skills and if you are not teaching the three skills your struggling students will never have success.
I was a very poor speller due in part severe dyslexia and dysgraphia.
As an LD student, I had three big problems with spelling. First, making the actual
word look correct, "is the sequence of letters correct?", "do the letters have the correct orientation, I hate p,d,q, b?", "is there enough letters?", and I had no muscle memory to help me make them legible. Visually I was word blind, and I could not envision what the word look like in my mind. Most of the prep for spelling test was the opposite of what most students should be doing.
My tips for teaching spelling success.
- Teach spelling as an auditory lesson, this strengthens and speeds learning.
- Chunk every word using syllabification and use, see it, say it, and spell it in the air.
- Create mnemonic devices for all irregular spelled words.
- Practice spelling test without paper and pencil all week using only auditory study methods and games.
- Play spelling sparkle.
- Work on the multiple meaning of words.
- Have students read aloud the words daily to build fluency.
- Have students make kid friendly sentences with a reading partner.
- Teaching students cursive helps with fine motor development and muscle memory.
Sample Reading Fluency Drills all grades
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- McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, by W. H. McGuffey
Sample Pages from the Speller
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Mr. Taylor's Modern Eclectic Reader 3rd grade Sample
Mr. Taylor's Modern Eclectic Reader 4th grade Sample
Mr. Taylor's Fairy Reader
Diary of a Reading Teacher: Reading Boot Camp
Over the past ten years I have collected, categorized and
assembled a vast collection of fairy tales, fables, myths,
legends, poems, prose, short stories, and parables -- all free in
the public domain. I, as most teachers, have limited funds or
nonexistent funds to spend on reading materials, so to have
an unlimited supply of materials at my fingertips has been part
of my students’ success. I get excited when I find a new
children’s magazine from 1857 with a serial from Louisa May
Alcott, or a child’s poem from Chaucer. I work with kids who
have very limited access to any literature outside of school.
So, to expose them to a world of enlightened classics is
life-changing for some. I’ve assembled my very own modern
Eclectic Reader from over eighty sources in the public domain.
The collection is vast and varied, from Aesop’s Fables to the
wisdom of Confucius. My Eclectic Reader has ballooned over the
years to cover fluency drills, fairy tales, poems, prose, short stories,
vocabulary lists, wisdom and quotes, riddles, and academic
glossaries for many subjects. It is now over two hundred pages
of reading material that I use during reading Boot Camp and
throughout the year.
The Old McGuffey Readers and Spellers
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1909 - 64 pages - Full view
| The flattering success of McGufFey's Revised Readers, and the inquiry for more primary reading matter to be used in the first year of school work, have induced the Publishers to prepare a Revised Primer, which may be used to precede the ... |
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1901 - 112 pages - Full view
| PREFACE The New McGuffet First Reader has been prepared in conformity with the latest and most approved ideas regarding the teaching of reading, and its lessons embody and illustrate the best features of the word, the phonic, ... |
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William McGuffey - 2010 - 164 pages - Full view
| Seventy-one lessons use short stories to teach meaning, spelling, pronunciation, and punctuation. Each lesson highlights 8 to 20 new words and charming 19th-century illustrations accompany the text. This is the revised 1879 edition. |
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 352 pages - Full view
| INTRODUCTION. I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. The great object to be accomplished in reading as a rhetorical exercise is to convey to the hearer, fully and clearly, the ideas and feelings of the writer. In order to do this, it is necessary that ... |
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Henry Hobart Vail - 1910 - 70 pages - Full view
| But what interest can the history of the McGuffey Eclectic Readers have to those who did not use these books in their school career? Their story differs from that of other readers since in successive forms, adjusted more or less ... |
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 448 pages - Full view
| PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION The subject of Elocution, so far as it is deemed applicable to a work of this kind, will be considered under the following heads, viz : 1. Articulation. 4. Reading Verse. 2. Inflection. 5. The Voice. 3. ... |
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William McGuffey - 2010 - 100 pages - Full view
| This is the revised 1879 edition. The McGuffey Readers are among the best known schoolbooks in the history of American education, selling an estimated 120 million copies between the time of their first publication in 1836 and 1960. |
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 460 pages - Full view
| PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION. The subject of Elocution, so far as it is deemed applicable to a work of this kind, will be considered under the following heads, viz.: 1. Articulation; 2. Inflection; 3. Accent and Emphasis; 4. ... |
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 216 pages - Full view
| ~a MAEKS AND PAUSES. 1. A Hy-phen ( " ) is used between syl-la-bles; ' No-ble, col-o-ny, and between the parts of a corn-pound word; as, Paper-mill, water-fall. 2. A Com-ma ( , ) de-notes a pause about as long as it takes to count one; ... |
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William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 332 pages - Full view
| The great object to be accomplished in reading as a rhetorical exercise is, to convey to the hearer, fully and clearly, the ideas and feelings of the writer. In order to do this, it is necessary that the reader should himself thoroughly ... |
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Maud Summers - 1908 - 157 pages - Full view
| u W1 HEN the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the ... |
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London readers - 1884 - Full view
| MISCELLANEOUS PROSE. I. THE SPIDER AND THE BEE ().. Upon the highest corner of a large window there dwelt a certain spider, swollen up to the first magnitude by the destruction of infinite numbers of flies whose spoils lay scattered... |
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London readers - 1878 - Full view
| naturalist. The beauty of their plumage, the elegance of their forms, the gracefulness of their movements, and, above all, the cheerfulness which everywhere surrounds them, tempt his observation, and impart to the thinking mind no small ... |
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Cassell, ltd - 1880 - Full view
| THE FIFTH READER. LESSON I. res'-cu-ing re'-qui-site pre-cau'-tion buoy'-ant-ly ex-cit-ed re-signed' em'-i-grants fran'-tic-al-ly LIFE-BOAT SERVICES ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.— Part I. 1. It is one o'clock in the morning; the moon gleams out ... |
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Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900 - 509 pages - Full view
| Most writers are mere echoes, and the greater part of literature is the pouring out of one bottle into another. If you can get hold of the few really best books, you can well afford to be ignorant of all the rest. The reader who has ... |
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Primers
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Aurelia Hyde - 1908 - 112 pages - Full view
| TO TEACHERS The idea of making use of familiar rhymes in teaching reading to children of primary grade is not a new one. We know how universal the knowledge of these rhymes is among children before they enter school ; to meet with this ... |
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Emma Serl, Vivian Evans - 1912 - Full view
| A PRIMER DAY BY DAY WITH SAM AND MAY BY EMMA SERE TEACHER OF PRIMARY METHODS,NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL. KANSAS CITY.MISSOURI AND VIVIAN EVANS TEACHER., HUMBOLDT SCHOOL.KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY E.WOOD SILVER,BURDETT AND ... |
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RAY'S ARITHMETIC
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Joseph Ray - 1885 - Full view
| In presenting a remodeled and greatly improved edition of this volume, widely known as Ray's Arithmetic, Part First, grateful acknowledgments are made to the numerous educators who have extended to this, as well as to the other ... |
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Joseph Ray - 1886 - Full view
| 3. Five and 7 are how many? 5 and 6? 5 and 9? five and 12? 5 and 10? 5 and 8? 5 and 11? 4. Seven and 6 are how many? 7 and 10? 7 and eight? 7 and 12? 7 and 9 ? 7 and 11? 5. Nine and 11 are how many ? 9 and 9 ? 9 and 12 ? nine and 7? ... |
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1857 - 164 pages - Full view
| BAY'S ARITHMETIC, SECOND BOOK. INTELLECTUAL ARITHMETIC BY ' INDUCTION AND ANALYSIS. By JOSEPH RAY, MD, LATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IS WOODWARD COLLEGE. ONE THOUSANDTH EDITION-IMPROVED. * .; v~ WILSON, HINKLE & CO., CINCINNATI: NEW ... |
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Joseph Ray - 1881 - 164 pages - Full view
| RAY'S ARITHMETIC, SECOND BOOK. INTELLECTUAL ARITHMETIC, BY . INDUCTION AND ANALYSIS. By JOSEPH RAY, MD, LATE PROFESSOR OP MATHEMATICS IN WOODWARD COLLEGE. ONE THOUSANDTH EDITION-IMPROVED. VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO., 187 WALNUT STREET, ... |
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Joseph Ray - 1858 - 180 pages - Full view
| Вт PROFESSOR JOSEPH RAY. Each BOOK of the Arithmetical Course, as well as the Algebraic, is Complete in itself, and is sold separately. PRIMARY ARITHMETIC.— RAY'S ARITHMETIC, FIRST BOOK; simple Mental Lessons and tables for little ... |
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JOSEPH RAY, M.D. - 1845 - Full view
| KEY TO RAY'S ARITHMETIC THIRD BOOK. SUGGESTIONS' ON TEACHING WRITTEN ARITHMETIC. In teaching written, or, as it is frequently termed, practical arithmetic, the first step is to make the learner well acquainted with numeration and... |
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Joseph Ray - 1862 - 165 pages - Full view
| Ray's Arithmetic, Second Book; a thorough course of mental exercises ; the most interesting Intellectual Arithmetic ... Ray's Arithmetic, Third Book; a full and complete treatise on the inductive and analytic methods of instruction. ... |
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Joseph Ray - 1866 - 192 pages - Full view
| RAY'S ARITHMETIC, THIRD BOOK — (PRACTICAL) .-. • ,v. . 16 Mo. KEY TO RAY'S PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC 16 Mo. RAY'S ... KEY TO RAY'S HIGHER ARITHMETIC . 12 Mo. BAY'S TEST EXAMPLES — (A NEW BOOK) . . . . . . 16 Mo. BAY'S AI. ... |
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Joseph Ray - 1852 - 396 pages - Full view
| RAY'S ARITHMETIC, PART SECOND ; a complete text-book a Mental Arithmetic, by induction and analysis. ... KEY TO RAY'S ARITHMETIC, containing solutions to the questions. With an appendix embracing Slate and Black Board exercises. ... |
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word look correct, "is the sequence of letters correct?", "do the letters have the correct orientation, I hate p,d,q, b?", "is there enough letters?", and I had no muscle memory to help me make them legible. Visually I was word blind, and I could not envision what the word look like in my mind. Most of the prep for spelling test was the opposite of what most students should be doing.
