stripe Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) In case any fans of Sheldon's PLL are interested, he wrote a Graded Speller http://books.google.com/books?id=uY8AAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Or http://www.archive.org/details/gradedspellerar00shelgoog I used Reading Reflex to teach reading, so I like the organizational system Sheldon has used, which is by sound. Anyway I decided to start this thread to make it less likely to get lost, for anyone interested. He also wrote readers, and it has a teacher's manual, and a manual of elementary instruction in object lessons. Edited December 17, 2011 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrightmom Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 :001_smile: Thank-you. I just downloaded Sheldon's PLL and ALL today. How do you use a speller like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Thank you for the links! I am off to check out the Readers on archive.org. :) You should also post this in the main vintage thread. BTW I am not sure there there was a specific 'he' involved writing Sheldon's books. I think it was a group of authors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Can someone tell me how to get these on my kindle? I see the kindle link - do I download them to my pc and then email the pdf to my kindle account? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I use a free program called Calibre. I just import the file into Calibre and upload it to my Kindle while my Kindle is attached to my computer via USB. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 (edited) BTW I am not sure there there was a specific 'he' involved writing Sheldon's books. I think it was a group of authors. There was an Edward Austin Sheldon (you can see his photo at that link!), and he seemed to have a distinct opinion about instructional methods! However, a lot of these books seem to be group efforts. I will go add this to the vintage thread; thanks for the idea! I need to go read his methods book now. Edited December 18, 2011 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Fascinating what was considered a third grade reader back then vs. the readers today! I usually don't like readers but the vintage readers are not like the readers we get these days. Anyway, I opened the third grade reader and Adrian was enjoying it, so I saved it and will be downloading the others also. I thanked you in the other thread but just wanted to say thanks again for always being so willing to share your great finds :)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansk Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Fascinating what was considered a third grade reader back then vs. the readers today! One possibility is that third graders back then were not 7-8 year olds. I like that the selections in Sheldon's readers are broken up into numbered paragraphs. However, just from comparing the second and fourth readers with Elson's and Treadwell's readers, I found the stories in the latter texts more interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 I really like Treadwell's too. I like that they are real stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 One possibility is that third graders back then were not 7-8 year olds. I like that the selections in Sheldon's readers are broken up into numbered paragraphs. However, just from comparing the second and fourth readers with Elson's and Treadwell's readers, I found the stories in the latter texts more interesting. I really like Treadwell's too. I like that they are real stories. I like all of them! Thank you ladies! It took a while to find Treadwell's third. I finally found it at Archive.org under Seventh Reader :confused:. Good thing I opened it too because I already had the seventh, but I noticed others listed with incorrect titles and I was really determined to find the only one I was missing, so I opened everything under "Treadwell reader" after typing that in the search engine ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Yeah, I once took forever to find them. I posted these links previously I can't find the manual on Yesterday's Classics' website, but it is on Main Lessons' website (they are connected organizations). You could email the people at Yesterday's Classics and ask. It's less than 75 pages on Google books. (There are some sellers selling the manual on Amazon for ~$20. Personally I wouldn't pay that much.) Incidentally, you can get all the Treadwell/Free readers online up to grade 6 at least. I used them and liked them (and we discussed them in the recent non-babyish readers thread). From Google Books -- where some are mislabeled -- Reading--literature: the primer Reading-literature: Book 1 Reading Literature: Second Reader Reading Literature: Third reader Reading-literature fourth reader Reading Literature: Fifth reader (took me forever to find!) Reading-literature : sixth reader And the manual -- Primary reading and literature: a manual for teachers Primer through Year 3 at Main Lesson (nicely formatted for reading off a computer screen). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Yeah, I once took forever to find them. I posted these links previously These are great links-thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) Yeah, I once took forever to find them. I posted these links previously I was able to get all the Sheldon books with the help of your links through Google books but was unable to get any of the Elson and Treadwell books from them. This was why I went to Archive.org. I use Kindle PC quite a bit these days, so I just added them there :). ETA: Thanks again! Edited December 19, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Yeah, I once took forever to find them. I posted these links previously These should give you books 7 and 8 but they have been adapted by Briggs (book 7) and Shryock (book 8) so this is what is written on the cover of the Kindle Editions. Then someone has handwritten Treadwell. http://www.archive.org/details/readingliteratu01briggoog http://www.archive.org/details/readingliteratu00shrygoog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 19, 2011 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 I was able to get all the Sheldon books with the help of your links through Google books but was unable to get any of the Elson and Treadwell books from them. This was why I went to Archive.org. I use Kindle PC quite a bit these days, so I just added them there :). ETA: Thanks again! Just wanted to link for those who can use google. Glad you found them. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 (edited) Just wanted to link for those who can use google. Glad you found them. :) Cool :)! The 7 and 8 books from Archive.org (in my previous post), also link back to Google, so this plus your previous links will give those with access to Google, the complete 8 book set :). ETA: I mean 9, with the Primer. Edited December 19, 2011 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poke Salad Annie Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just giving this a friendly bump, as I missed it when it was originally posted in December. This is a great thread. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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