The original blue back speller by noah webster goodreads. Websters mother spent long hours teaching her children spelling, mathematics, and music. Patriotic textbook series by noah webster online at alibris. He has been called the father of american scholarship and education. The elementary spelling book 1908 nice frontispiece. The bluebacked speller forgotten intellectual legacy of the. Elementary spelling book blueback speller webster, noah on.
October 16, 1758 may 28, 1843, was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, englishlanguage spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. Editions of the original blue back speller by noah webster. October 16, 1758 may 28, 1843 was an american lexicographer, textbook. His goal was to provide a uniquely american, christcentered approach to training children. Simple lessons and activities to teach yourself over.
Koch when the widder biled the taters, cowcumbers and yerbs raly stiddily on yender fire by the chimbly, she left them unkivered. Noah webster cures the blues with a spelling book new england. The great american educator noah webster first published a grammatical institute of the english language, otherwise known as the blue back speller, in 1783. His bluebacked speller books taught five generations of american children how to spell and read, secularizing their education. Noah webster might never have published his bluebacked speller if it werent for setbacks in his career and disappointment in love. In 1786 the first volumes official title changed from the first part of the grammatical institute of the english language to the american spelling book. The bluebacked speller forgotten intellectual legacy of. Better living through spelling national endowment for the. The elementary spelling book 1908 nice frontispiece noah webster on. His bluebacked speller books taught five generations of american children how to spell and read. In 1783, he published volume one of a grammatical institute of the english language, also known as the american spelling book, or the bluebacked speller. October 16, 1758 may 28, 1843 was an american lexicographer, textbook pioneer, englishlanguage spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions. Noah webster wrote the first american textbooks for spelling and grammar.
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