More Webster...

In the May 2025 edition of The Report Card we posted a classic narrated slide show on Noah Webster by Susan Webb, entitled "Webster in Your Classroom." Feel free to check it out again. In this edition, we offer even more information with easy to use PDF's loaded with fun facts for children about his Blue Back Speller and his "Webster's Dictionary" that became a staple in education for centuries. His dictionary grew from 40,600 definitions in 1806 to 70,000 in 1828, with over 225,000 today.
Two PDF's in one file are available by clicking on the image below:
                                                             Noah Webster's Dictionary
                                            Happy Birthday, Noah Webster!

The activity sheets posted here would probably have Webster in a tizzy as HE was one of the major promoters of copyright laws to protect someone else's work. These were clipped from unknown newspapers, on an unknown date many years ago, but we promise that if there is an objection lodged here we will take down the post. Hopefully readers will value them for pedagogical use and the creators will be lenient on us.
Note: The "Noah Webster's Dictionary" page is from The Mini Page 2008 Universal Press Syndicate, which became Uclick (now defunct).