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Strandysmommy 7 years 3 days ago Posts: 617	Anyone remember those great texbooks from grade school? I don't know why I remember these but I do- started with "Getting Ready to read" which we had in kindergarten, with cartoon animals on a hill stargazing on the cover. Then it moved on to "Bears" "Balloons" and "Boats". Then (oh my gosh here I go): Sunshine Moonbeams Skylights Towers Spinners Weavers Gateways Banners Beacons Emblems Awards...my one redeeming factor as an outcast in grade school is that while everyone in 3rd grade were in Towers, I was already in Beacons (so THERE!!!).

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Video Jukebox 7 years 3 days ago Posts: 1069	We had something similar, but the titles were different, usually just two word phrases. I just remember the name of the one we got in 1st grade-- "Starting Out", with a photo of a flower bud poking out of melting snow on the cover. We got a new one every year, or at least everyone in my reading group did. I remember always wanting to peek into one of the texts the "big kids" in higher grades had. There were a few good stories and excerpts from novels in them (I remember especially liking the excerpt from The Good Earth that was in my fifth grade textbook), but there were also a series of stories with a shiny, happy family called the Applebaums in them that I always thought were rather dorky.
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snkreed99 7 years 3 days ago Posts: 139	I am sorry, but my memory is not what it once was. However, I do remember Banners and Beacons.
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Tripwire 7 years 3 days ago Posts: 2	I barely remeber textbooks from the 70's with paper cut outs photos on the covers. They created really cool little scenes and paterns. I also had a math workbook for 3rd grade that was brown with orange halves on the cover. Probably remember it because I hated my teacher and that subject so much I played sick every Monday.

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pjb2377 7 years 2 days ago Posts: 952	I remember all of those text books. I remember when I was in Moonbeams and my older sister was in Beacons. Wow! I completely forgot about those.

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Emtplatt 7 years 2 days ago Posts: 107	The titles of mine were more specific: Through the Star shine I touched the Sun
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Funky Guy 7 years 2 days ago Posts: 2638 Account Disabled	Some of those titles Strandy listed off ring a bell. I can't remember alot about my old text books but I remember one of my English readers had a cool short essay on the history of rock music illustrated with photos and there was a series of science fiction short stories that were all related and divided up between different reader books. My whole class was hooked on them. One of my math text books, I think it was for grade three and four had a front cover I liked, a city scape with minatures and Majorette toy cars. One of my later text books had a word problem about buying casette tapes illustrated with a cover of the tape pressing of Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason. One of the last Science textbooks I had had a picture me and a friend of mine were attracted to, it dipicted two females in their late teens working on a lab project, a blonde and a burnette.

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Pinwheel 7 years 1 day ago Posts: 521	Damn, you guys have some good memories! Actually, I just recalled the name of my social studies book from 5th or 6th grade, "The world and it's people". I didn't even remember if the other ones had names or not, but I'd prolly recall if I actually saw the covers.
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Saturday_Supercade 7 years 1 day ago Posts: 297	I remember Sunshine and Moonbeams from early elementary. When I changed school districts in 2nd grade( early 1987), we had reading books with names (not in correct order): Ride the Sunrise Give Me a Clue Mystery Sneakers Glad to Meet You I'm blanking on the other names. I've made it my mission to scour thrift stores in order to collect them. Also, do you remember when math textbooks in the 80s, and even into the early 90's, had BASIC programming code for you to try out? I loved doing those on my home computer even though they were never assigned by my teachers.

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Alyssa Branen 6 years 11 months ago Posts: 2171	The names are very familiar. Especially moon beams. I remember that in kindergarden our readers were buffy and mac lol

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Alyssa Branen 6 years 11 months ago Posts: 2171	You know, I also remember when we started learning history, that we never even got half way through the textbooks. There just was never enough time in the year. I suppose that is why home schooled kids are so smart? Alot of them work through the whole year so they must have gotten through all the curriculum.

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gcd134 5 years 1 month ago Posts: 1	Ok, you might like my two complete lists: 70's SERIES Rockets Surprises Footprints Honeycomb Cloverleaf Sunburst Tapestry Windchimes Passports Medley Keystone Impressions Serendipity Diversity EARLY 80's SERIES Bears Balloons Boats Sunshine Moonbeams Skylights Towers Spinners Weavers Gateways Banners Beacons Emblems Awards

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milatchi 5 years 1 month ago Posts: 666	I remember in 1st grade we had these thick hard cover reading text books published by Mcgraw Hill /Macmillan. Their names were as follows: ADVENTURING BIT BY BIT FRIENDS ALOFT LANDSCAPES OBSERVING SKETCHES TAKING TIME TAPESTRIES This was '89-90. Anyone else use this set, or familiar with these?
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Alyssa Branen
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I wish I could see the covers to these, then I bet i'd remember.
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milatchi 5 years 1 month ago Posts: 666	Alyssa_Branen wrote: I wish I could see the covers to these, then I bet i'd remember. I did a Google search but couldn't find any images. :-( I remember ADVENTURING was yellow, LANDSCAPES was a pinkish-red, SKETCHES was green and TAPESTRIES was a light brown. One of the others was lavender but I don't remember which. They all had a gold book medallion logo on the cover in the center and the name of the book arched around the medallion logo -- it's amazing I remember these books.
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Alyssa Branen 5 years 1 month ago Posts: 2171	Yeah I did that to, I tried ebay as well just to see if I could see a picture but couldn't find any.

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chasrich 5 years 1 day ago Posts: 13	These were reading books from the mid-late '70's: Pug (1st grade primer) Green Feet Mysterious Wysteria Kaleidoscope Images

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JoDa26 3 years 4 months ago Posts: 8 Account Disabled	OMG! I thought I was the only one that remembered this kind of stuff. I HAVE my 1st grade reading book. Made by GINN & Company it is called "One To Grow On" Rainbow Edition. There was another book we did before it or right after it that was orange but I can't remember the name. This would have been 1981 ish. *Someone posted how it was exciting to peek ahead into the next book for the next level...LMAO!!!! That was the best part about reading class...that and of course a brand new crisp reading book were YOUR name was signed FIRST..LOL. Here is a link to find and BUY these vintage books. My book is here too: http://schoolroomclassics.com/products/readers%20ginn.htm

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thecrow174 3 years 4 months ago Posts: 9804	Here's one: Bumping and You 1st Edition It's as useless as bumping itself.
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jimmyg72 5 months 3 days ago Posts: 1	When I was in junior high we had a Social studies book called great waves breaking for some reason that one always stuck in my head, maybe it was the glossy hardcover photo of huge waves crashing onto the beach with clear blue sky and the bright glare of the sun, I stared at the cover way more than I ever read what was inside.

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