Elementary and Middle School Readings for Columbus Day/Google books

The Story of Columbus and Magellan

A First Book in American History: With Special Reference to the Lives

A History of the United States and Its People: For the Use of Schools

The Beginner's American History

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

Socializing the Child: A Guide to the Teaching of History in the Primary Grades

Stories of Early American History

An Elementary History of Our Country

American Hero Stories

The Patriotic Reader: For Seventh and Eighth Grades and Junior High Schools

The Story of Mankind

Founders of Our Country

History Primer

Barnes's Elementary History of the United States

Type Lessons for Primary Teachers

Lesson Plans: Written Composition for Grades One - Four/Google Books

From a 1920 periodical, Primary Education. Click on pages to enlarge and print or download.

Ten Great Events in History/Google Books

Click here.

Story of Roland/Google Books

Click here.

The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

Well-Known Piano Solos, How to Play Them /Google Books

Click here.

Well-Known Piano Solos, How to Play Them: How to Play Them
By Charles W. Wilkinson, Edward Ellsworth Hipsher
Published by Best Books, 1915
284 pages

The New McGuffey Fifth Reader/Google Books

Click here.

The New McGuffey Fifth Reader.
By William Holmes McGuffey
Published by American Book Co., 1901
Original from Harvard University
352 pages

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin/Project Gutenberg

Click here. Easy to download via HTML, just "select all" and "save".

According to Yesterday's Classics which has republished this classic:

"A fairy tale of what happened to two men who tried to get rich in evil ways and of how the fortune they sought came to their younger brother, whose kind and loving heart prompted him to right action. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of 19th century stories for children. Includes four black and white illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Ages 8-10, 41 pages."

Detailed description of plot, characters, and story analysis at Wikipedia.

Teaching Literature in the Grammar Grades and High School /Google Books

Click here.

Teaching Literature in the Grammar Grades and High School
By Emma Miller Bolenius
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915
Original from the New York Public Library
337 pages

In the Nursery of My Book House/Google Books

By Olive Beaupré Miller

Published by Book House for Children, 1920
Click here.

Traditional nursery rhymes and stories for older children.

The Golden Door Book Fifth Grade Reader/Google books

Click here.

The Progressive Composition Lessons for Seventh and Eighth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

Outlines of the World's History By William Swinton/Google Books

Click here.

Cathcart's Literary Reader (Survey of English Literature) /Google books

Begins with Elizabethan literature. Click here.

Type Lessons for Primary Teachers in the Study of Nature, Literature and Art Grades 1-4/Google Books

Click here.

Type Lessons for Primary Teachers in the Study of Nature, Literature and Art, arranged by seasons for the first four grades.
By Anna E. McGovern
Published by A. Flanagan company, 1905
Original from Harvard University
315 pages

Shakspere(Shakespeare): A Critical Study of His Mind and Art/Google Books

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Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

By Edward Dowden, Will David Howe

Published by Harper, 1918

Original from Harvard University

386 pages

Intermediate Language Lessons for Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade By Emma Serl/Google Books

Click here.

Intermediate Language Lessons
By Emma Serl
Published by American book company, 1914
324 pages

Teacher's copies and reprints of this book are available for sale. Check Google Search, or use my Amazon search engine on the side bar.

Everyday Classics Eighth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader

By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Fannie Wyche Dunn, Mildred Batchelder

Published by Macmillan, 1918

Everyday Classics Seventh Grade/Google Books

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Everyday Classics: First [-eighth] Reader

By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Fannie Wyche Dunn, Mildred Batchelder

Published by Macmillan, 1918

Original from the New York Public Library

Classics Old and New Fourth Grade/ Google Reader

Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers

By Edwin Anderson Alderman

Published by University publishing company, 1906
Click here.

The Mother Goose Primer/Google Books

Click here.The Mother Goose Primer
By Belle Wiley
Illustrated by Anne Merriman Peck
Published by C.E. Merrill, 1910
Original from Harvard University
128 pages

Little People's Dialogues Designed for Young People of Ten Years/Google Books

Click here.

An American Book of Golden Deeds(Hero Stories) By James Baldwin/Google Books

An American Book of Golden Deeds

By James Baldwin

Published by Dodo Press, 1907

Original from Harvard University

200 pages

Probably geared toward fourth or fifth grade readers.

Click here.

The Book of Battles; or, Daring Deeds by Land and Sea/ Google Books

This is not an academic book, but interesting for older teens and adults.

The book of battles; or, Daring deeds by land and sea [ed. by E. Shelton and C. Jones], By Book, Edward Shelton
Published by , 1867
Original from Oxford University

From the Prospectus:

"The Editor, however, will exercise great caution to avoid errors into
which he might easily fall. First, the Narratives will be strictly true,
so that the reader may have before him the actions of men like himself —
not creations of an author's brain. Then, the details of most Exciting
Adventures will not be overcharged for the mere purpose of producing
a morbid sensation. Over sufferings incidental to War the veil will be
gently drawn, and at heroic deeds involving often the rise of One Man
upon the sacrifice of Thousands there will only be expressed the admiration
of a rational observer in a Christian country."

Click here.

Fifty Famous Rides and Riders By James Baldwin/Google Books

Click here. Appears appropriate for fourth to fifth grade students.

Published by American Book Company, 1916
Original from the New York Public Library
303 pages

Barnes's Elementary History of the United States by James Baldwin/Google Books

Click here. About fourth grade level. Beginner's history in the form of biographies.

Published by American Book Company, 1918
400 pages

The Wizard King, the Story of the Last Moslem Invasion by David Ker

Click here.

Harper's Seventh Reader By James Baldwin/Google Books

Click here.

Harper's Fourth Reader By James Baldwin/Google Books

Click here.

Baldwin Reader Eighth Grade/Google Books

Click here.

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race/Project Gutenburg

Contents:

Introduction xvii
I. Beowulf 1
II. The Dream of Maxen Wledig 42
III. The Story of Constantine and Elene 50
IV. The Compassion of Constantine 63
V. Havelok the Dane 73
VI. Howard the Halt 95
VII. Roland, the Hero of Early France 119
VIII. The Countess Cathleen 156
IX. Cuchulain, the Champion of Ireland 184
X. The Tale of Gamelyn 204
XI. William of Cloudeslee 225
XII. Black Colin of Loch Awe 248
XIII. The Marriage of Sir Gawayne 265
XIV. King Horn 286
XV. Robin Hood 314
XVI. Hereward the Wake


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Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light/Project Gutenburg

Click on title.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls/Project Gutenburg

Then a cry came from among the common people, and so strong was it that the nobles looked as if they hated to hear it.

'Let Arthur draw the sword!' was the call from a thousand throats.

The venerable archbishop came and took Arthur by the hand, and led him towards the sword. Again the young man held the rich pommel with his single hand, and that which none of the forty-nine great men could do, he did as easily as if he but plucked a flower.

A fierce cry leaped from among the thousands of the common people.

'Arthur shall be our King!' they cried. 'Arthur is our King! We will no longer deny him!'

A wonderful read-aloud or story for older children to read. It is a bit difficult with the old English, so I'm guessing age 12 and up for readability. Click here.

In God's Garden by Amy Steedman/Librivox

Audio book here, and readable online text here.

Stories for children of Saints Ursula, Benedict, Christopher, Catherine of Siena, Augustine of Hippo, Augustine of Canterbury, Cecilia, Giles, Nicholas, Faith, Cosmo and Damian, Martin, George, and Francis of Assisi. Ages 6-10

The American Normal Readers Fifth Grade/Google Books

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Excerpt from Introduction:
Thou hast made us for Thyself, and we cannot find rest until we find it in Thee. — ST. AUGUSTINE. These familiar words, which show the purpose of our creation and the true goal of life, also point to the end and aim of all sound education. Education is complete and ideal only as it trains and develops the whole being in the manner intended by the Creator. True education will embrace instruction and guidance in Religion, Science, History, Literature and Art, for these represent the child's entire nature and so cover the full range of his possibilities.

The American Normal Readers: Fifth Book

By May Louise Harvey

Published by Silver, Burdett and Co., 1912

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Mar 30, 2007

The American Normal Readers Third Grade/Google Books

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The American Normal Readers: Third Book

By May Louise Harvey

Published by Silver, Burdett and Co., 1908

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Mar 28, 2007

352 pages

Primary Method in the Church School(Lessons Plans)/Google Books

Lesson plans and teacher's instructional for primary grade, ages six though eight, although some skills covered look appropriate for younger ages. Click here.

Primary Method in the Church School: By Alberta Munkres

By Alberta Munkres

Published by The Abingdon Press, 1921

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Jan 8, 2008

242 pages

Language Work By Grade(Lesson Plans)/Project Gutenberg

For grades one through eight. Click here.

Language Work in Elementary Schools

By Macon Anderson Leiper

Published by Ginn, 1916

Original from the University of California

Digitized Oct 29, 2007

333 pages

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 & Great Events by Famous Historians, Volumes 1-21./Project Gutenberg

Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942:

• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02
  (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05
  (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06
  (From Barbarossa to Dante) (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08
  The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 (English) (as Editor)
• The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21
  The Recent Days (1910-1914) (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8
  A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History (English) (as Editor)
• Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8)
  A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
  than 200 of the most prominent personages in History (English) (as Editor)

Wilderness, Camping, and Scouting Using the "Indian Ideal"/Google Books

This is "old school" scouting at it's best. Click here.

California Plants in Their Homes, A Botanical Reader/ Google Books

Click here. Later elementary school, possibly fourth(advanced) through sixth grade.

Nature Study Made Easy/Google Books

Early science, possibly third grade level. Click here.

A First Manual of Composition/Google Books

A First Manual of Composition: Designed for Use in the Highest Grammar Grade and the Lower High-school Grades
By Edwin Herbert Lewis
Published by Macmillan & co., ltd., 1899
Original from Harvard University

Click here.

Junior High School Mathematics/Google Books

Click here.

High School Algebra/Google Books

Click here.

The High School Word Book(Vocabulary)/Google Books

Click here.

The Practical Speller for Higher Grades/Google Books

The Practical Speller for Higher Grades: Designed to Present in the Natural Order of Acquisition the Words Required in the Work of the Grammar and High School, and to Lead the Pupil to a Clear Understanding of the Common Usage of Capital Letters and of Punctuation Marks, by William Clayton Jacobs, Published by Ginn & Co., 1900.

Click here.

Boy Kings and Girl Queens/Google Books

Click here. Approximate reading level, ages 10-12.

Citizenship in School and Out/Google Books

Published in 1919, grades first through sixth grade, lesson plans for civics. Click here.

Free Catholic Homeschooling Resources

Click on title.

Free Children's Ebook: A Wonder-book for Girls and Boys(Classical Mythology) By Nathaniel Hawthorne/Google Books

Click on title.

Vintage Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts/Google Books

Click on title.

The Girls' Book of Famous Queens/Google Books

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A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines/Project Gutenberg

Interesting short biographical stories from 500 B.C. through 1920 of famous men and women for elementary school children. Click here. Unusual in that it includes Buddha and Muhammed.

The Beacon Third Grade Reader/Google Books

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The Beacon Second Grade Reader/Google Books

Click here.

The Beacon First Reader/Google Books

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Everyday Classics First Reader/Google Books

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McGuffey's Natural History Readers: Familiar Animals and Their Wild Kindred

This reader is for third grade. Click here.

The Speyer School Curriculum(Guide) Grades Kindergarten -Eighth/Google Books

Published in 1913. See here.

Wheeler's graded readers: A Primer/Google Books

Click here.

Primer By Maud Summers, Lucy Fitch Perkins/Googe Books

Click here.

Teaching Literature in the Grammar Grades and High School/Google Books

Click here.

Free Catholic Homeschooling Resources

Click on title.

Little Wanderers by Margaret Warner Morley/Google Books

This charming book is an elementary school study of traveling seed plants probably for third or fourth grade. Click here.

More books by this author:
Seed-babies
The Honey-makers
The Bee People
A Song of Life
Renewal of Life: How and when to Tell the Story to the Young
A Few Familiar Flowers: How to Love Them at Home Or in School
The Spark of Life: The Story of how Living Things Come Into the World

Little Mitchell: The Story of a Mountain Squirrel
Butterflies and Bees: The Insect Folk

High School Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition/Google Books

First High School Course

Second High School Course

Six Little Cooks: Or, Aunt Jane's Cooking Class/Google Books

Click here.

Theme-building: The Essentials of High School Composition/Google Books

Click here.

Junior High School English/Google Books

Book One

Book Two

Book Three

When Mother Lets Us Cook: A Book of Simple Receipts for Little Folk/Google Books

Click here.

The Fun of Cooking: A Story for Boys and Girls/Google Books

Click here.

Vintage Catholic Comic Books

"The Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact was a Catholic comic book published by George A. Pflaum of Dayton, Ohio, and provided to Catholic parochial school students between 1946 and 1972. The digital collection is a project that includes the first eighteen volumes running from 1946 to 1963. (Some issues in Volume 4 are missing.)"

Click here.

HT to Soutenus

Fourth of July Stories, Independence Day (USA)

A few Fourth of July stories from Good Stories for Great Holidays. See Table of Contents here, and then "page forward" at link.

Basic Spanish SPN101, SPN102, SPN103/Audio Class

The textbook used for this course is called Sol y viento (VanPatten et al., McGraw-Hill). Click here.

Astronomy, Biology (Life Sciences), Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Physics

Click in title.

Arithmetic , Pre-Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry, Calculus, and Linear Algebra

Click in title.

G. A. Henty Historical Fiction Online in Chronological Order

Click on title.

Handicraft for Girls: A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, and More(Grades 3-7) /Google Books

Click here.

The Science of Everyday Life: Projects for Junior High Schools/Google Books

Click here.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

Nature Study in Elementary Schools, Readers/Google Books

First Reader: The title mentions that this is a first reader; however, it looks a bit advanced for a first reader, more like a second grade leveled reader. Take a look to determine for yourself.

Second Reader, Myths, Stories, and Stories: Again, seems advanced for second grade, more like a third grade reader.


Both are very nice month-by-month nature readers.

Children's Stories of the Great Scientists/Google Books

Click here.

Christ Legends/Internet Archives

Stories of Christ and saints. Click here.

Sewing: Handicraft for Girls, Grades Three through Seven

Click here

Learning to Read Curriculum/Google Books

The Comprehensive Method of Teaching Reading, Books one and two.

Lessons in English/Google Books

These books have no grade assigned to them; however, they appear appropriate for third - fifth grade. The lessons emphasis beginning writing skills.

Book One
Book Two

A Fifth Grade Reader/Google Books

Click here.

Poems of American History/Google Books

Click here.

U.S. History Primer/Googe Books

There is no grade assigned to this history book although there is some mention that it was prepared by a high school teacher. It looks very general for high school. It is probably better suited for middle school. Click here.

McFadden Language Series/Google Books

There are no grades assigned to these books; however they appear to be appropriate for third and fourth grade. They have some really nice writing lessons, some with illustrated picture prompts for creative writing. I plan to use a few of these pages for writing assignments for by fourth grade student this summer.

Book One
Book Two

Memorial Day Multi-Grade Readings for Children

Public School Methods, Memorial Day lesson suggestions. Elementary school.

One Year of Sunday School Lessons for Young Children, Gideon's Army.

The Patriotic Reader, for Seventh and Eighth Grades, Memorial Day.

Seat Work and Industrial Occupations: A Practical Course for Primary, pages 88-89, craft.

Fifth Reader, Liberty or Death!

Memorial Day (Decoration Day) Its Celebration, Spirit, and Significance, high school.

History primer, late elementary - middle school.

Stories for Every Holiday middle elementary school.

Home Occupations for Boys and Girls, elementary school.

Reading suggestions from above: Lincoln's
Gettysburg address should be read. Also Lowell's "
The Present Crisis."(high school) "Bugle Echoes," compiled by
Francis F. Browne, contains 150 poems of the Civil
War, both Northern and Southern(high school).

Story Hour Readings, seventh grade, Woodrow Wilson address.

Printable Memorial Day short stories for elementary school.

Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature/Google Books

Click here.

High School Geography: Physical, Economical, and Regional/Google books

A bit dated of course, but parts are still useful. Click here.

The High School Cookery Book/Google Books

Click here.

The Junior Highway to English: A Textbook for the Seventh and Eighth/Google Books

Click here.

Junior High School Speller/Google Books

Click here.

A First and Second Latin Book for Junior High Schools/Google Books

Book One

Book Two

American Community Civics for High Schools and Junior High Schools/Google Books

Click here.

Studies in Science(Plant): For Seventh and Eighth Grades/Google Books

Covers plant science. Click here.

The Patriotic Reader, for Seventh and Eighth Grades/Google Books

Click here.