Spring Multigrade Story Printables for April and May

All are free and in public domain. Printing Google Books: Follow the link, right click on the image of the page, and print picture. It will print as a full sized page. Entire books are also downloadable.


The Lincoln Fourth Grade Reader: Voices of Spring Poem by William Wordsworth.

Games and Songs of American Children: Flower Games and the Birch Broom.

Standard Catholic Fourth Grade Reader: The Daisy and the Lark by Hans Christian Anderson

The Little Girl's Own Book of Games and Activities: May Morning.Elementary school.

Three Years with the Poets: A Text-book of Poetry - First grade: Verses from the Song of Solomon and Pippa's Song by Robert Browning. Second grade: April, the Runaway Brook and Little May Spring, Song of the Fairy by William Shakespeare More here, pages 70-76.
Third grade: pages 103-105 and 131-138.

A little about the Flower Festivals in Japan from The World and Its People.

For the Story Teller: Story Telling and Stories to Tell: The Selfish Giant. Elementary school.

Reading-literature: Fourth(Grade) Reader Apollo and Daphne

Nature Study in Elementary Schools - Second Grade: April - May Teacher's manual: April through May Synopsis and April - May course of study.

Language Lessons from Literature(high school): Rhoecus

The New Barnes Third Grade Reader: Rhoecus

The Classic Myths in English Literature(high school): Rhoecus and here.

Junior High School Literature Book Three(ninth grade): Rhoecus Poems: Lines Written in Early Spring, Wordsworth, the Call of Spring, Noyes and April North Carolina.

Stories from the Poets: A Reader for the First Grade: Rhoecus

Day by Day in the Primary School(early elementary) : April and May.

The Child's World Fourth Grade: Rhoecus

Children's Literature: A Story of Springtime(Myth) and The Miraculous Pitcher(Philemon and Baucis) by N. Hawthorne

Elson Primary Fourth Grade School Reader: The Miraculous Pitcher(Philemon and Baucis) by N. Hawthorne

The Progressive Road to Reading Fifth Grade: The Miraculous Pitcher(Philemon and Baucis) by N. Hawthorne

The Young and Field Literary Readers: Old Pipes and the Dryad.

A Fourth Grade Reader: Old Pipes and the Dryad.

Spring Nature Study(elementary school)

Farm Life Fourth Grade Reader: The Little Brown Seed(poem)

The Robin Reader - A First Reader: Two Little Seeds

The Sprague Classic Second Grade Reader: The Story of a little Plant,Pussy Willow Has Come, and Spring.

Good English, Oral and Written Fourth Grade: Baby Seed Song(poem)

Live Language Lessons: Springtime Stories, Persephone(middle school)

Songs of Happy Life: April music sheet.

New Fifth Grade Reader: Spring(poem) and Early Spring, Tennyson(poem)

The Heart of Oak Books Sixth Grade: The Dandelion(poem).

Story Land - A Second Reader: Baby Seed's Song(poem) and A Spring Folic.

Poems and Verses By Mary Mapes Dodge:
Now the Noisy Winds Are Still.

Nature Study and the Child: Work for April

St. Nicholas By Mary Mapes Dodge: The Hyacinths

Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks: April - May.

Brooks's Seventh Grade Reader: Spring(Poem) and April and May poems, pages 131-132.

Cyr's Fourth Grade Reader(mislabeled on Google): Biography of Tennyson. Two of his spring poems: Early Spring and The Progress of Spring.

The Elson Eighth Grade Reader: Flowers in the Crannied Wall, Tennyson. Same in fifth grade reader.

A School Second Grade Reader: Ceres and Propserpine.

Lessons in Art - A Book for Class-work: Ceres and Proserpine.

American Primary Teacher: Lesson Plans for April - May.

Evenings with Grandpa: A May Morning, Milton and The Story of the Season Proserpine.

The Fifth Grade Reader: An April Day

Flower Children - Little Cousins of the Field

Songs of Happy Life: See bottom of table of contents - Natures and Seasons

Little Flower Folks(nature science - botany)

In celebration of Shakespeake's birthday on April 23th:

Three Years with the Poets(second grade): Lullaby for Tatiana

The Jones Fourth Grade Reader: Voice of Spring(Poem) and The Magic Juice(Midsummer's Night's Dream)

Shakespeare for Children.

Also see my daffodil post.

A Second Grade Reader/Google Books

Click here.

Carpenter's Geographical Reader; North America/Google Reader

An interesting reader which gives the reader a view of North America at the turn of the century. We've used these old readers as a beginning to social and geographical studies of the world, and follow up where they leave off with an encyclopedia.

Click here.

Little Flower Folks Botany & Literature/Google Books

Volume I: Plant science

Volume II: Plant science along with literature and poetry.

Saints Faith Stories/The Baldwin Online Children's Project

Abbie Farwell Brown, The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts
William Canton, A Child's Book of Saints
William Canton, A Child's Book of Warriors
F. J. Harvey Darton, The Seven Champions of Christendom (in progress)
Grace Hall, Stories of the Saints
George Hodges, Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages
George Hodges, Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages
Selma Lagerlöf, Christ Legends
Mrs. Lang, The Book of Saints and Heroes
Mary Macgregor, The Story of Saint Christopher
Ella Noyes, Saints of Italy (in progress)
Amy Steedman, In God's Garden
Amy Steedman, Our Island Saints
Sophie Jewett, God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi
Amy Steedman, Legends and Stories of Italy

If I get a chance, I'll cross reference these with Google Books and Project Gutenberg. They may have all of these books in an easy free PDF download. Links to both are on my sidebar.

Fifth Grade Reader/Google Books

Click here.

Fourth Grade Reader/Google Books

Click here.

The Riverside Third Grade Reader/Google Books

Click here.

The Literary World Seventh(Seventh Grade) Reader/Project Gutenberg

Clcik here.

The Book of Art for Young People/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

Journeys Through Book Land with Teacher's Guide/Project Gutenberg

"Journeys Through Bookland is what the title signifies, a series of excursions into the field of the world’s greatest literature. Accordingly, the base of the work is laid in those great classics that, since first they found expression in words, have been the education and inspiration of man. But these excursions are taken hand-in-hand with a leader, whose province it is to explain, to interpret, to guide and to direct. Suiting his labors to the age and acquirement of the readers he helps them all, from the child halting in his early attempts to interpret the printed page to the high school or college student who wishes to master the innermost secrets of literature. In no small sense is this leadership a labor of love, for it follows an experience of twenty years of personal instruction in the public schools and among the teachers of the country." ~ The Guide

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Volume one was not available.

The handy supplementary book list

History of the United States/Project Gutenberg

by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard. Click here.

Scandinavian Children's Stories(Folklore and Fairy Tales)

Click on title.

Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland/Project Gutenberg

A little fluffy, but good for peaking the interest of younger readers.

Contents:
Christopher Columbus The Boy of Genoa
Michael Angelo The Boy of the Medici Gardens
Walter Raleigh The Boy of Devon
Peter the Great The Boy of the Kremlin
Frederick the Great The Boy of Potsdam
George Washington The Boy of the Old Dominion
Daniel Boone The Boy of the Frontier
John Paul Jones The Boy of the Atlantic
Mozart The Boy of Salzburg
Lafayette The Boy of Versailles
Horatio Nelson The Boy of the Channel Fleet
Robert Fulton The Boy of the Conestoga
Andrew Jackson The Boy of the Carolinas
Napoleon Bonaparte The Boy of Brienne
Walter Scott The Boy of the Canongate
James Fenimore Cooper The Boy of Otsego Hall
John Ericsson The Boy of the Göta Canal
Garibaldi The Boy of the Mediterranean
Abraham Lincoln The Boy of the American Wilderness
Charles Dickens The Boy of the London Streets
Otto Von Bismarck The Boy of Göttingen

Click here:

The True Story Book By Andrew Lang/Google Books

Click here.

The Story of the Roman People: An Elementary History by Eva March Tappan/Google Books

Click here.

The Story of the Greek People: An Elementary History by Eva March Tappan/Google Books

Click here.

The National Reader/Google Books

No grade indicated, but appears to be at least a fifth grade reading level. Pre-Civil War school book with stories of a high moral tone. Christian and biblical selections. Click here.

The Fifth Reader(fifth grade)/Google Books

Clikc here.

The First Reader/Google Books

Sight words and some phonics. Click here.

The First Reader Series Fifth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

The Historical Reader/Google Books

Christian historical reader from Creation to The Battle of New Orleans. Click here.

Elson Grammar School Reader First Grade

Click here.

Wheeler's Graded Readers Third Grade/Google Books

Click here.

Graded Literature Readers Sixth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

The Elson Readers Eighth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables

To print/save pages: follow link, right click on image of the book page only, print picture or save picture. Entire books can be downloaded as well - see download button at link(upper right on sidebar).


Open Sesame!: Poetry and Prose for School-days, middle school: Lent, Good Friday, and Easter hymn.

The Every-day Book and Table Book, 1839 London: Good Friday discussion of traditions, high school.

A History of English Literature, discussion of Easter dramas/pageantry during the middle ages and Renaissance, high school.

Stories to Tell to Children, Robert of Sicily, a king who finds redemption at Easter, elementary school.

Monumental Christianity: Or, The Art and Symbolism of the Primitive Church , Jesus as Sufferer Passover, high school.

The Christ Story By Eva March Tappan, elementary school.

The Catholic children's magazine, Passion Flowers and Snowdrops, elementary school.

Poems by Grades: A Song of Easter, third grade.

Educating by Story-telling: The Rabbit and the Easter Eggs(Bavarian Folk Tale) and The Easter Eggs, a story in ethics.

Elson Second Grade Reader: The Easter Rabbit, Teacher's Manual for this story.

The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days , high school

The Book of Easter, for young and old, stories and poems.

Good English:Easter customs, third grade.

Festival Poems: Eastertide, young and old.

Games of Dutch Children, Easter, elementary school.

One Year of Sunday School Lessons for Young Children: Easter

Lesson Stories for the Kindergarten Grades of the Bible: Easter

In My Nursery: The Easter Hen, a poem, early elementary school.

The Nursery Magazine for Young People: Hunting for Easter Eggs, early elementary school.

For the Children's Hour : Easter stories, including the Snowdrop, elementary school.

Elson Primary School Reader: Easter Play(German tale)

Outlines for Kindergarten and Primary Classes: Easter/Spring/April, some of the recommended reading resources are in public domain available at GoogleBooks.

The American Normal Readers Second Grade(Catholic): Palm Sunday, Easter, The Easter Lily, The Lily.

Child-garden Story, Song, Play: The First Easter, elementary school.

First Poems: Easter Lily, elementary school.

The Goose Quill: Easter lesson, what the Bible says about lilies, elementary school.

An Easter Surprise(Lesson 15, pages 150-151), Kindergarten or preschool.

A Thought for Passion Week, and Easter Message, and The Children's Easter Hymns.

The Children's Hour: More About Easter Eggs, elementary school.

Stories for Sunday Telling: Bunny Bobtail's Easter, The Wonder Egg, and Harold's Happy Easter, early elementary school.

Stories for Every Holiday: Finding Easter, elementary school.

World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: The First Easter Day, elementary school.

Primary Grade Lesson Plan and Printables for Each Month of the Year

Click in title.

Farm Life Readers Fifth Grade/Google Books

Reader which centers around nature - poems and stories with written exercises. Click here.

When Knights Were Bold By Eva March Tappan/Google Books

Medieval civilization. Click here.

The Little Book of the Flag By Eva March Tappan/Google Books

History while different flags flew in America. Click here.

A Short History of England's Literature By Eva March Tappan/Google Books

Click here.

The Beautiful Book for Little Children By John L. Shorey/Google Books

This really is a beautiful book for children - nice illustrations, stories and poems for preschool - elementary school. Click here.

Stories of the Saints/Google Books

Click here.

Plays for Classroom Interpretation By Edwin Van Berghen/Google Books

Click here. High school level text.

Cherry Blossoms Children's Literature Collection

The Nursery, a poem(elementary school)

Leaves and Flowers, Or, Plant Studies for Young Readers

The Flowers and Gardens of Japan

The Beautiful Book for Little Children (poem)

Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan (high school)

Child Training: A System of Education for the Child Under School Age - by Virgil Mores Hillyer (elementary school)

First Days in Number: A Primer of Arithmetic (flower math - counting)

Practical Work in the School Room: Given in Primary Department, Grammar (shapes of flowers - elementary school)

Favorite Songs and Hymns for School and Home (music score)

The Mary Dawson game book: a manual of original games and guessing contests (party games)

Bright Ideas for Entertaining; Two Hundred Forms of Amusement (planning a Japanese cherry blossom party)

Japanese Fairy Tales By Teresa Peirce Williston/Google Books

Click here.

The New Public School Music Course: Third Reader/Google Books

Click here.

A Treasury of Plays for Children By Montrose Jonas Moses/Google Books

Click here.

Nature Study for Primary Grades/Google Books

Click here. No illustrations, requires field trips and/or additional texts with illustrations.

Flower Children: The Little Cousins of the Field and the Garden by Elizabeth Gordon, M T Ross/Google Books

Illustrated picture book of the months. Click here.

Poetry for Children By Samuel Eliot/Google Books

Click here.

Little Folks' Handy Book By Lina Beard, Adelia Belle Beard/Google Books

Frugal toys with recycled items. Click here.

Daffodil(AKA: Lent Lily) Stories, Poems and Activities by Grade, Some Lesson Plans

Click on title.

Our Lady in Art/Google Books

Click here.

A Child's Book of Saints/Google Books

Click here.

Dutch/Holland/Netherlands Literature for Children

Rollo in Holland

The Hero of Harleem Lit2go Site sometimes down on weekends.

Holland and the Hollanders By David Storrar Meldrum(Pictures)

Pictures from Holland By Richard Lovett

Illustrated Handbook of Geography By George Franklin Cram(map)

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks

By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G.A Henty

The Dutch Twins

Big People and Little People of Other Lands

Dutch Lullaby, second grade poem.

Wide Awake Third Grade Reader, pages 20-25, two dutch tales.

Third grade lesson plan: Life in (old) Holland.

The Story of Dutch Paintings from the St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls

Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland by Mary Mapes Dodge

Story of Little Jan, the Dutch Boy By Helen Mary Campbell

Social studies for early elementary: Holland

Beautifully illustrated easy reader(about third grade level): Windmills and Wooden Shoes.

Wooster Fourth Reader: Holland or Netherlands.

Third grade, Stepping Stones to Literature: A Boy Hero.

Fourth Grade Reader: Holland(2 parts)

Fifth grade reader: Skating in Holland

Educating by Story-telling: Wilhelmina's Wooden Shoes, about Rembrandt

Dutch diorama and story, early elementary school

Free Printable Short Stories, Audio Read-Along Option with Mini-Worksheets

Click in title.

Reading Guides by Grade

From The Baldwin Project and Yesterday's Classics Pageant of History(on my sidebar), helpful reading lists by grade for public domain books:

Baldwin Project grades K through six.

Yesterday's Classics years 0 - 6(Charlotte Mason).

Not in public domain, but a helpful reading list of children's historical novels along a timeline. See Bethlehem Books Living History Library offered through Seton Educational Media.

American History Stories by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick

Google Books:
Volume I

Volume II

Volume III

Volume IV

Audiobook and link to the ebook at The Baldwin Project.

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley/Google Books

Click here.
Audiobook and Project Gutenberg text here.

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children Adapted by James Baldwin/ Audio and Text

Click in title.

Librivox: Source of Free Audiobooks

Librivox is an extensive library of free public domain audiobooks. Written summaries are included. Check the genres; there are many listed under the Children's genre which may match free online texts. A good number of the classics are available and the narration is very good. Click here. All recording as in public domain.

Nursery Rhyme Music(MIDI) and Song Sheets

Click in title.

Literature Guide by Subject and Grade Level

Click in title.

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare: Shakespeare for Children/Baldwin Project, Audio-Internet Archive

The Baldwin Project has Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit free online(printable), as well as a reprint for sale. Kessinger publishers(see sidebar) has also reprinted this book.

The Internet Archive has a free audio version of this book. You can listen to it online, embed it on your site, or download it onto your computer or MP3 player.

The New England Poets, A Study of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes/Google Books

Click in title.

Introduction to Classical Latin Literature by William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.

Introduction to Classical Greek Literature By William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.

Introduction to the Study of American Literature by William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.

Guide to Selecting Children's Literature/Google Books

The Children's Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott.

The Wide Awake Third Reader/Google Books

Third grade illustrated geography reader featuring stories about children from around the world. Click here.

The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands Where Civilization Began

Click here.

The History of England for Catholic Children/Google Books

Click here.

A Book for the Children of God: Simple Catholic Teaching/Google Books

Click here.

Geometric(Geometry) Exercises in Paper Folding

Click here.

When Mother Lets Us Cut Out Pictures/Google Books

Very cute blacklines for children to cut, color and paste. Each picture has a didactic read-aloud. Some are quite simple, others are quite detailed like the intricate Scherenschnitte.

Click here.

Paper Sloyd(Paper Crafts): A Handbook for Primary Grades

Organized by grade. Picture is of first grade projects. Click here.

Constructive Work: Its Relation to Number, Literature, History, and Nature Work

Interesting assortment of DIY crafts and projects. I couldn't find link to literature while browsing through this book. It looked like mostly science and math hands-on learning. Click here.

Story Hour Readings: Fifth Year/Google Books

Google has this incorrectly titled as year seven, but the front cover indicates this is for fifth grade. Click here.

Gardening: An Elementary School Text/Google Books

Click here.

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

Our Common Insects/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

Mamma's Stories about Birds/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

The Child's Zoological Garden/Google Books

Click here.

The Good Voices, a Child's Guide to the Bible/Google Books

Church of England, Anglican, click here. Elementary school level. Well written explainations for young children of concepts like the spirit.

The Child's Pictorial History of England/Google Books

Click here.

Child's Life of Christ: Stories from the Bible

Click here.

The Child's Own English Grammar Book, Book One/Google Books

Click here.

Good Morals and Gentle Manners/Google Books

Click here.

Queen Summer or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose/Project Gutenberg

Illustrations by Walter Crane. Click here.

A Child's Thoughts in Rhyme/Google Books

Click here

The Child's Country Story Book/Google Books

About third grade reading level with beautiful color illustrations. Click here.

The Child's Companion/Google Books

Reader for about fourth - sixth grades. Click
here.

A Child's History of Spain/Google Books

Click here.

A Children's Code of Morals for the Girls and Boys/Google Books

Various issues of morality are addressed with classic stories by grade level. Click here.

Latin Composition for Secondary Schools/Google Books

Click here.

New Sloan Readers: Containing a Complete Course in Phonics, Primer

Click here.

New Sloan Readers: Containing a Complete Course in Phonics, Second Reader

Click here.

A Child's First Latin Book/Google Books

Click here.

The Child's History of Jerusalem/Google Books

Appears to be a fourth grade reading level and up. Click here.

The Child's Coloured Scripture Book/Google Books

Click here. Third or fourth grade reading level.

The Child's Scripture History/Google Books

Click here Contains comprehension questions.

The Child's Month of Mary/Google Books

Click here.

Little People: An Alphabet(Children of the World in Alphabet)/Google Books

U for United States.
The States are full of mush and pie
And houses twenty stories high,

Saw-mills and millionaires and bustle;
The people there "have got to hustle."
The business of the States is done
Ex-clu-sive-ly by telephone;
And that is why the people say,"I guess we're 'cute in U. S. A."

Click here.

The Beginner's Greek Book/Google Books

Click here.

Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades/Google Books

Click here.

Supervised Study in American History Grades Seven and Eight/Google Books

Examination at end of book. Click here.

Primary Phonics: First Book/Google Books

Contains a teacher's manual. Click here.