ClassicalTwins Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Do you guys have any suggestions for books with NO pictures for beginning readers...I have Phonics Pathways, and just ordered Reading Pathways...any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 The Stairway to Reading Material has text (graduated in difficulty) without pictures. I found the program on a link on Don Potter's site. It's a full program if you need that as well. http://www.teachyourchildtoread.ca/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 How "beginning?" Could you write some of your own? To practice CVC and other very simple words, I wrote little 4-6 page stories and had dd illustrate them (well, some of them--for some, she suffered my C- art skills! lol). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 I just got this from the library: Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach by Cynthia A. Barnhart and Robert K. Barnhart (It's an adaptation of Leonard Bloomfield's 1961 text.) It does not have any pictures and is a big, fat book that covers what I would say could be all levels of reading instruction (last one =irregular consonant spelling patterns such as "syrup," "neighbor" and "diamond" with long reading passages). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsiew Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Just out of curiosity, why no pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicalTwins Posted September 6, 2010 Author Share Posted September 6, 2010 Just out of curiosity, why no pictures? Because we get stuck looking at the pictures and forget to read the words....so then we just put the words in sentence(guess) that the picture has if we don't know the word ...we are looking to the picture to tell us the word like our ps K teacher taught us. Many words are not in the picture...imagine that! Long story...so no please no more phonics teaching ideas we have lots of those thanks to ElizabethB...thank you thank you...you can read here the long story if interested: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184677 Now we need books with no pictures to get us out of this nasty nasty habit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 :grouphug: That's a hard one to break, too, sorry. You can do it, it can be done! The 1879 McGuffey readers don't have too many...you could tape white paper over the few that are in there. Many of the old readers are free online, you could print out just the text yourself from Gutenberg, here's a McGuffey 1879 1st reader, just the text, from Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/1nmcg10.txt Parker's 2nd Reader from Gutenberg, just the text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16936/16936-8.txt Like Chris said, it might be fun to let them add pictures AFTER they read a few of the stories, you could print out the words at the bottom of a page on a few of the stories that would be fun to illustrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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