150 Spelling Books to freely download
Here are a total of 150 books all related to Spelling, and how to teach or learn to spell English better. Most of these are older from over a hundred years ago, but can still be very helpful. Of course, newer words invented since will not be covered in these books. They are in pdf file format.
- A Complete Etymology of the English Language by William Smith (1873)
- A Graded Test Spelling Book (1877)
- A High School Spelling Book (1915)
- A Manual for Teachers to Accompany the Modern Speller and Dictation Day by Day (1924)
- A Manual of Orthography and Elementary Sounds (1900)
- A Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling
- A New Graded Spelling Book (1890)
- A New Spelling Book – first part (1919)
- A New Spelling Book – last part (1919)
- A Practical Commercial Speller (1905)
- A Primary Spelling Book of the English Language with Illustrations (1877)
- A Sound-English Primer, Knoflach (1890)
- A Spelling & Pronouncing Dictionary (1814)
- A Spelling Book (1910)
- Aldine Speller Part One for Grades 1 and 2 (1921)
- Aldine Speller Part Two for Grades 3 and 4 (1916)
- Aldine Speller Part Three for Grades 5 and 6 (1916)
- Aldine Speller Part Four For Grades 7 and 8 (1916)
- Aldine Speller, Learning to Spell, A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller (1921)
- An Ear and Eye Spelling Book, A Book on Word Study for the Primary Grades (1905)
- An Introduction to Spelling (1852)
- An Introductory Spelling-book (1878)
- Bechuana Spelling Book (1826)
- Business Speller and Vocabulary (1913)
- Chambers Spelling Book (1866)
- Cobbs New Spelling Book (1842)
- Cobbs New Spelling Book revised (1849)
- Comlys Spelling Book (1835)
- Common School Speller Containing a Choice Selection of Words for Practical Exercises (1875)
- Common School Spelling Book (1913)
- Correct Spelling (1917)
- Essentials of Spelling (1919)
- Essentials of Spelling Higher Grades (1921)
- Essentials of Spelling Middle Grades (1921)
- First Spelling Book (1909)
- First Steps in Spelling (1874)
- Gradations in Reading and Spelling (1839)
- Graded City Speller for Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Year Grades (1904)
- Graded Lessons in Spelling (1907)
- Graded Spelling Lists (1910)
- Harveys Graded School Speller
- Hazens Complete Spelling Book
- How to Learn to Spell (1902)
- Incipient and Progressive Speller and Reader (1841)
- Learn to Spell A High-school Book (1916)
- Lippincott’s Horn-Ashbaugh Speller for Grades One to Eight (1920)
- McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book by Alexander H McGuffey
- Merrills Word and Sentence Book, A Practical Speller Designed to Teach (1891)
- New Champion Spelling Book (1920)
- New Graded Spelling Book (1890)
- New Practical Speller, Penneman (1900)
- New Pronouncing Spelling Book (1823)
- New Word-Analysis, or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words (1879)
- New World Speller Grades 1, 2, 3
- North American Spelling Book (1813)
- One Hundred Lessons in Spelling (1914)
- Ontario Teachers Manuals – Composition Spelling (1916)
- Phonetic Spelling for College Students (1960)
- Pollards Advanced Speller
- Pollards Synthetic Speller
- Practical High School Speller (1914)
- Practical Spelling Lessons Book 1 (1915)
- Practical Spelling Lessons Book 2 (1917)
- Primary Spelling Book (1877)
- Rathburns Graded Speller (1908)
- Sanders New Speller, Definer, and Analyzer (1879)
- Sanders Union Speller (1872)
- Sanders Union Speller, a Clear and Complete Exhibition of English Orthography (1867)
- Speller, California State Board of Education (1886)
- Spelling and Dictation Class-book with Etymological Exercises (1870)
- Spelling and Dictation Exercises (1870)
- Spelling and Language Book (1887)
- Spelling and language lessons for foreign classes learning English (1915)
- Spelling Book (1891)
- Spelling Book Indiana State Series, 1891
- Spelling Lessons for Intermediate Grades (1905)
- Spelling Made Easy (1919)
- Spelling Made Easy – with Spelling Rules (1919)
- Spelling Turned Etymology (1844)
- Syllabic Spelling, or A Summary Method of Teaching Children to Read (1830)
- Teachers Manual of Spelling (1918)
- Tests in Spelling and Pronunciation (1881)
- The 100% Spelling Book (1917)
- The American Primary Spelling Book (1833)
- The American Spelling Book, Noah Webster (1807)
- The American Word Book, Graded Lessons in Spelling, Defining, Punctuation
- The Bailey-Manly Spelling Book 1 (1908)
- The Bailey-Manly Spelling Book 2 (1908)
- The Childs Own Spelling Book (1914)
- The Civil Service Spelling Book (1878)
- The Common-Word Spellers (1921)
- The Complete Spelling Book (1856)
- The Complete Spelling Book (1865)
- The Constructive Etymological Spelling-Book (1852)
- The Elementary Spellingbook, Noah Webster (1908)
- The English Spelling Book (1818)
- The English Spelling Book (1846)
- The Etymological Spelling Book and Expositor (1832)
- The Gradational Spelling Book (1838)
- The Graded School Speller, Book 1 (1908)
- The Graded School Speller, Book 2 (1908)
- The Graded School Speller, Book 3 (1908)
- The Graded School Speller, Book 4 (1908)
- The Graded School Speller, Book 5 (1908)
- The Graded School Speller, Book 6 (1908)
- The Graded School Speller, Part 2 (1908)
- The Grammar School Speller and Definer
- The Jones Spelling Book Part 1 (1915)
- The Jones Spelling Book Part 2 (1915)
- The Mastery of Words, Book 1 -A Course in Spelling Arranged for Grades 1 to 5 (1918)
- The Modern Speller Book 2 (1916)
- The Modern Spelling Book (1896)
- The National Pronouncing Speller
- The National Spelling-Book and Pronouncing Tutor (1858)
- The New Art of Spelling, 1705
- The New Century Spelling Book in Two Parts, for Primary and Grammar Grades
- The New Code 1871, Reader and Speller Division 1
- The New Code 1871, Reader and Speller Division 2
- The New Speller and Word Book (1895)
- The North American Spelling Book with a Progressive Series of Reading Lessons (1835)
- The Old-Time Spelling School, by John G Ellenbecker
- The Oxford Spelling Book (1726)
- The Practical Speller and Definer (1897)
- The Practical Speller First and Second Books (1895)
- The Practical Speller for Higher Grades (1900)
- The Practical Speller For Lower Grades (1897)
- The Practical Speller, Especially Designed for Use in Commercial Education (1890)
- The Practical Spelling Book (1840)
- The Practical Spelling-Book, with Reading Lessons (1859)
- The Progressive Speller (1893)
- The Pronouncing Spelling Book (1830)
- The Rational Spelling Book (1898)
- The Rhyming Spelling Book (1873)
- The Scholars Companion (1860)
- The Spelling Book (1854)
- The Spelling Reform (1893)
- The Spelling Reformer, Burnz
- The Student’s Spelling Book (1853)
- The Syllabic Spelling or A Summary Method of Teaching Children to Read (1830)
- The Teaching of Spelling (1919)
- The Teaching of Spelling, State of NJ (1912)
- Towns New Speller and Definer (1866)
- Watsons Complete Speller Oral and Written (1878)
- Webster 1824 Progress Chart for American Spelling Book
- Websters Spelling Book 1824
- Websters Spelling Book Method for Teaching Reading and Spelling Excerpts
- Wheelers Elementary Speller (1901)
- Wheelers Graded Studies in Great Authors A Complete Speller (1899)
- Willson’s Primary Speller
- Word Studies by Edwin Samuels Sheppe (1905)
- Word-Building Fifty Lessons, Combining Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon Roots (1892)
Here are our other helpful and freely available Spelling lists, worksheets and books:
- 54 Spelling Word Lists, Worksheets and Lessons
- 32 Spelling Lists and Worksheets
- 106 More Vocabulary and Spelling Worksheets, Lists, Texts and Videos, Grades 1-8
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Thank you for this post. These resources will help any child to learn to spell and read.
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I am trying to download a speller and your Dropbox is not available. Thank you for your time. I am helping a young cousin of mine to improve her spelling.
If this is the book you are referring to, it is now available to download. Here is the link:
A Complete Etymology of the English Language by William Smith (1873):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/myr6c0lc6csa1jg/A%20Complete%20Etymology%20of%20the%20English%20Language%20by%20William%20Smith.pdf?dl=0
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