Monday, February 8, 2010

The Step-by-step Primer: a Self-instructor in Reading

The step-by-step primer: a self-instructor in reading by the use of Burnz' pronouncing print
Author Eliza Boardman Burnz
Publisher Burnz, 1892
Length 94 pages
Overview

Saturday, February 6, 2010

A Short History of Scotland/Google books

A short history of Scotland
Author Peter Hume Brown
Publisher Oliver and Boyd, 1908
Length 618 pages
Overview

Thursday, February 4, 2010

American Indian Story and Primer/Google Books

Kwahu, the Hopi Indian boy
Author George Newell Moran
Publisher American Book Company, 1913
Length 237 pages(color illustrations)
Download or read online here. Free and in public domain. Reading level about middle school and up.


Hopi paper dolls(1922) here.


For younger children, The Indian Primer, 1906. Readable online and downloadable.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Johnson's Primer/Google Books

Johnson's primer
Authors Henrietta H. Richardson, Blanche Wynne Johnson
Publisher B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1898
Length 46 pages
Overview

Monday, February 1, 2010

The Wonder Book of the Atmosphere/Google Books

The wonder book of the atmosphere
Author Edwin James Houston
Publisher F.A. Stokes company, 1907
Length 326 pages
Overview

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Graphics: a Manual of Drawing and Writing/Google Books


Graphics: a manual of drawing and writing, for the use of schools and families
American Culture Series, Art and Architecture collection
Author Rembrandt Peale
Publisher J. P. Peaslee, 1835
Length 86 pages
Overview

Friday, January 29, 2010

Art Appreciation/Google Books

The Appreciation of Pictures
Author Russell Sturgis
Publisher The Baker & Taylor co., 1905
Length 298 pages
Overview

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Preschool Picture Book


Cut and paste, or just for reading, The Children's Object Picture Book, Published/Created: London; New York: F. Warne & Co., [188-?]. Free and in public domain from the U.S. Library of Congress. Fully downloadable or readable online as HTML pages.

Features a home in 19th century London, England.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

First Book of Drawing/Google Books



First book of drawing: being exercises for children and young persons
Chamber's educational course
Author Robert Chambers
Publisher William and Robert Chambers, 1840
Length 11 pages
Overview

High School English/Google Books

Elements of High School English

Author Maude Morrison Frank
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., 1915
Length 290 pages
Overview

Constructive Exercises in English
Author Maude Morrison Frank
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., 1909
Length 154 pages
Overview

High School Exercises in Grammar
Author Maude Morrison Frank
Edition 5
Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915
Length 202 pages
Overview

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales/Google Books


Mighty Mikko: a book of Finnish fairy tales and folk tales
Author Parker Hoysted Fillmore
Publisher Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922
Length 314 pages
Overview

Friday, January 22, 2010

The Children's Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language/Google books


The children's book: a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language
Author Horace Elisha Scudder
Compiled by Horace Elisha Scudder
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin, 1907
Length 444 pages
Overview

Canterbury Chimes, or Chaucer Tales Retold for Children/Google Books

Canterbury chimes, or Chaucer tales retold for children
Authors Francis Storr, Hawes Turner, Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher Roberts, 1896
Overview

Printable Chaucer paper doll here.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Multi-grade Winter Homeschooling Lessons


In the Child's World, Winter(K and Early Elementary)Multi-page.

Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights(middle school and up)

Three years with the poets: a text-book of poetry(elementary school),(various, see calendar)

Winter Fun. From 'St. Nicholas' magazine'(elementary school)

Our Winter Birds
: how to know and how to attract them(reference, and middle school and up)

Winter Evening Tales(Christian, middle school and up)


A Book of Winter Sports(reference, middle school and up)

All the Year Round: a Nature Reader: Part II : Winter(elementary school)

Winter Camping(reference, high school and up)

Pilgrim Stories, Winter in Holland(middle elementary)

Everyday Birds: Elementary Studies, Winter Pensioners

Bird world: a bird book for children, Winter Birds(Elementary School)

Independent fifth reader Instruction in Winter
and here, pages 301-304.

Botany: an elementary text for schools, Winter Buds, pages 36-41.

The Nursery(Preschool-Early Elementary): The Snowball Fight, Winter Scenes on the Hudson, Winter Evening Games, and Peter's Mishap.

Holmes' Third Reader, Winter Sleepers, and Children in Winterland

Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, The Study of Birds' Nests in Winter.

Our American Neighbors, Winter in Canada(fourth grade).

Lessons with Plants, Characters in Winter Plants(high school).

The Beginner's Garden Book: a Textbook for the Upper Grammar Grades, Going into Winter Quarters.

Live Language Lessons, The First Winter of the Pioneers of Utah(late elementary, early middle school)

Junior High School Literature, The Great Blizzard more here(Table of Contents under Winter)

Story Hour Readings, Book 7(Seventh grade), The Snowstorm

Life and Literature Readers: First Reader, Winter

Nature Study in Elementary Schools: Reader, Winter Stories and Poems

The Children's First reader, Book 3(third grade), Daisy's First Winter

Fifth Reader, How the Trees look in Winter.

Golden Treasury Readers: Fourth Reader, Woods in the Winter

American Poems: Whittier, Snowbound(high school)


Day by Day in the Primary School: The Winter Months(lesson plans)

The Sprague classic readers: Book Two(second grade), Edith's Idea of Winter

A fourth Reader, A Boisterous Winter Evening

Tell Me A Story: Winter - The Gray Hare Count Lyof N. Tolstoi 162;The Snow Image . Adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne 164;The Fire That Would Not Burn 173.

Knowles' Elocutionist: Employment of Winter Evenings by the Young(Middle school)

The Children's friend, Winter Birds(Mormon periodical)

The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World, In the Cold Countries of the North.(late elementray, early middle school)

Elementary Geography: A Text-book for Children, The Four Seasons


The Globe Geography Readers, The Seasons and Cold Lands(third or fourth grade)

Complete Geography(about fifth or sixth grade), In Eskimo Land

Graded Literary Readers(fourth)The Little Postboy, Swedish winter tale.

The Wide Awake Reader(third grade), Eskimo Children

Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The First Steps in Algebra/Google Books

The first steps in algebra
Author George Albert Wentworth
Publisher Ginn & company, 1908
Length 233 page
Overview

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Gordon Reader Fourth Grade


The Gordon readers, Volume 4
The Gordon Readers, Emma K. Gordon
Author Emma K. Gordon
Publisher D. C. Heath & co., 1910
Overview

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Holton-Curry Second Readers

Holton-Curry Reader(second grade)


Authors Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry
Publisher Rand McNally & Co., 1914
Overview

Easy Star Lessons

Easy star lessons
Author Richard Anthony Proctor
Publisher G.P. Putnam's sons, 1882
Length 239 pages
Overview

Child's Christ-tales/Google Books


Child's Christ-tales
Author Andrea Hofer Proudfoot
Publisher A. Flanagan Co., 1896
Length 127 pages
Overview

Monday, January 4, 2010

The Land of the Long Night/Project Gutenberg

Good for learning geography of the Northern Europe(mid-elementary school level).

Click here.

School Arithmetics: Primary Book


School arithmetics: primary book
Author Florian Cajori
Publisher Macmillan, 1914
Length 285 pages
Overview

A Text-book of Physics/Google Books

A text-book of physics
Author George Albert Wentworth
Publisher Ginn & company, 1898
Length 440 pages
Overview

An Introductory Logic

An introductory logic
Author James Edwin Creighton
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1909
Length 520 pages
Overview

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Wentworth & Hill's Examination Manual, Issue 1(Arithmetic)/Google Books

No answer booklet, just test. Appears to cover elementary school and early middle school mathematics, and probably proceeds, School Arithmetics(Grades 7 and 8).

Wentworth & Hill's examination manuals, Issue 1
Authors George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill
Publisher Ginn & Co., 1894
Overview

School Arithmetics(Grades 7 and 8)/Google Books

School arithmetics
Wentworth-Smith mathematical series
School Arithmetics, George Albert Wentworth
Book 3 of School arithmetics: book one-three
Authors George Albert Wentworth, David Eugene Smith
Publisher Ginn, 1920
Overview

School Algebra(Grades 5 and 6) + Teacher's Copy/Google books

Wentworth-Smith mathematical series
School Arithmetics, George Albert Wentworth
Book 2 of School arithmetics: book one-three
Authors George Albert Wentworth, David Eugene Smith
Publisher Ginn, 1920
Overview


School algebra: teachers' edition
Book 2 of School Algebra, George Albert Wentworth
Wentworth-Smith mathematical series
Author George Albert Wentworth
Publisher Ginn and Company, 1913
Overview

Solid Geometry/Google Books

Solid geometry
Wentworth-Smith mathematical series
Authors George Albert Wentworth, David Eugene Smith
Publisher Ginn and Company, 1913
Length 191 pages
Overview

Elementary geometry, plane and solid: for use in high schools and academies/Google Books

Elementary geometry, plane and solid: for use in high schools and academies
Author Thomas Franklin Holgate
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1901
Length 440 pages
Overview

THE Book of Elegies(English Classics)/Google Books

THE BOOK OF ELEGIES
Author JAMES BALDWIN
Published 1893

Overview

Friday, December 25, 2009

Gulliver's Travels into Some Remote Countries/Google books


Gulliver's Travels rewritten for younger children.


Gulliver's travels into some remote countries
Authors Jonathan Swift, James Baldwin
Publisher American Book Co., 1908
Length 172 pages

Overview

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclopedia Britannica

Many courses of study and reading guides.

A guide to systematic readings in the Encyclopedia Britannica: new & revised ed
Author James Baldwin
Publisher Werner co., 1897

Overview

Encyclopedia Britannica here.

Monday, December 21, 2009

The Winston Readers, The Primer/Google Books

The Winston readers
The Winston Readers, Ethel Maltby Gehres
Authors Sidney Grant Firman, Ethel Maltby Gehres
Publisher J.C. Winston, 1918

Overview

Teacher's manual

Reading Literature, Second Grade Reader/Google Books

Reading literature
The Reading-literature series, Harriette Taylor Treadwell
Authors Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free
Publisher Row, Peterson and Co., 1912

Overview

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Trees and Plants Mentioned in the Bible/Google Books


The trees and plants mentioned in the Bible
Publisher Religious Tract Society, 1895
Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Length 235 pages
Overview

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

Friday, December 11, 2009

Education by Plays and Games/Google Books

Ages 0-15.
Education by plays and games
Author George Ellsworth Johnson
Publisher Ginn & company, 1907
Length 234 pages
Overview

Christmas Themed Children's Literature/Google Books & More

Post bumped up from last year.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories

The Birds' Christmas Carol

Little Peter: a Christmas morality for children of any age


Stories for Every Holiday

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Describes the life of Santa Claus from birth through old age and into immortality.

Santa Claus

Twas the Night Before Christmas 1912 edition by C. Clement Moore.

The Story of Santa Klaus: Told for Children of All Ages


Yule-tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales & Traditions

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events

Childrens' Holidays, The Christmas Tree

Old Christmas by Washington Irving,Randolph Caldecott

A Dog of Flanders

By Ouida, easy reading

Fifty Christmas Poems for Children, read only.

The Spirit of Christmas by Henry Van Dyke


The Christmas Rose, Good Stories for Great Holidays By Frances Jenkins Olcott

A Christmas child By Molesworth

The First Christmas Tree By Henry Van Dyke, Howard Pyle(high school)

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories

Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of Any Age

Little Blossom's Reward: A Christmas Book for Children


An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve(Scandinavian)

The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein

Christmas in Legend and Story by Elva S. Smith

Primer - The Little Christmas Tree(beginning reader)

Holyday Tales

Why the Chimes Rang

First Grade Reader, Christmas with the Grandparents.

Comprehensive list of Christmas stories at the Baldwin Project.

In the child's world: morning talks and stories for kindergartens, primary


Primary Education - lesson plans, stories, art, music, etc., 1926. Numerous pages, begins here.

Reindeer cut-out and nursery rhyme.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Good English, Oral and Written, Books 1-3/Google Books

Meant for third and fourth grades per Introduction.

Good English, oral and written,Volume 1
Volume 1 of Good English, Oral and Written, Clara E. Lynch
Good English, Oral and Written, Book One-three, Clara E. Lynch
Authors William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linaeus Marsh
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1920
Overview

Meant for fifth and sixth grades per Introduction.

Good English, oral and written, Volume 2
Good English, Oral and Written, Book One-three, Clara E. Lynch
Authors William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linaeus Marsh
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1921
Overview

Meant for seventh and eight grades per Introduction.

Good English, oral and written, Volume 3
Good English, Oral and Written, Book One-three, Clara E. Lynch
Authors William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linaeus Marsh
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1918
Overview

Friday, December 4, 2009

Intermediate History of the United States: for Use in the Fifth and Sixth Grades of Catholic Schools/Google books

Intermediate history of the United States: for use in the fifth and sixth grades of Catholic schools
Volume 1270 of Harvard social studies textbooks preservation microfilm project
Authors Frank X. Sadlier, William H. Sadlier
Publisher William H. Sadlier, 1915
Length 301 pages
Overview.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do /Google Books

Three hundred things a bright girl can do
Author Lilla Elizabeth Kelley
Publisher D. Estes & company, 1903
Length 630 pages
Overview

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Christmas in Legend and Story: a Book for Boys and Girls/Google Books

Christmas in legend and story: a book for boys and girls
Author Elva Sophronia Smith
Compiled by Elva Sophronia Smith, Alice Isabel Hazeltine
Publisher Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1915
Length 283 pages
Overview

A Budget of Christmas Tales/Google Books

A Budget of Christmas tales
The Christian Herald library
Authors Charles Dickens, Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Molesworth, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Herbert Winslow Collingwood, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Publisher The Christian Herald, 1895
Length 299 pages

Overview

Introduction to Fiction/MIT OpenCourseWare

A college level class from MIT.

21L.003 Introduction to Fiction


Also see:

21L.003 Reading Fiction


21L.420 Literary Studies: The Legacy of England

21L.471 Major English Novels

More here.

I have not reviewed these materials, so I'm not sure of the content. Please let me know what you think if you use these classes for high school students.

Friday, November 27, 2009

High School Christmas Readings/Google Books & Project Gutenberg


Christmas: its origin and associations, together with its historical events and festive celebrations during nineteen centuries: ...
Author William Francis Dawson
Publisher E. Stock, 1902
Original from Pennsylvania State University
Length 366 pages
Overview(High School)


Yule-Tide in Many Lands(Project Gutenberg)(High School)

A History of the United States for Catholic Schools/Google Books

A history of the United States for Catholic schools

Author Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1914
Length 673 pages

Overview

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Storied West Indies/Google Books

The Storied West Indies
Appletons' home reading books
Author Frederick Albion Ober
Publisher D. Appleton and company, 1900
Length 291 pages

Overview

Monday, November 23, 2009

Outlines for Kindergarten and Primary Classes in the Study of Nature and Related Subjects: Arranged by Months

Outlines for kindergarten and primary classes in the study of nature and related subjects: Arranged by months
Authors E. Maud Cannell, Margaret E. Wise
Publisher E.L. Kellogg & co., 1897
Length 162 pages

Overview

Handicraft for Handy Girls: Practical Plans for Work and Play/Google Books

Handicraft for handy girls: practical plans for work and play
Authors Albert Neely Hall, Dorothy Perkins
Publisher Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1916
Length 413 pages

Overview

Children's Printable Vintage Thanksgiving Stories and Poems

Click here.

Also see the Holiday Lessons: Early Elementary - Middle School label.

The Language-speller/Google Books

Language work with spelling, probably for mid-elementary school.

The language-speller
Author Elizabeth Hill Spalding
Publisher Richardson, Smith & Company, 1899
Overview

Friday, November 20, 2009

Eskimo Reading Resources and Supplements


Coloring page at left - click to enlarge and print.

Eskimo finger plays for preschool.

Eskimo sand table

An Artic Scene

Eskimo boy paper doll

Original 1922 Lucy Perkins The Twins Series paper dolls 

Igloo coloring page


As supplements to:

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales

The Twins Series - Eskimo(grade 2)/Project Gutenberg
Perkins, Lucy Fitch, 1865-1937



Around the world with the children(We Go to Cold Lands)

More reading here from my library.

Cut Out Paper Dolls/Google Books




Public school methods, Volume 1(Kindergarten).
Main page.

School arts, Volume 19 Red Cross and American Indian dolls and boy scout, camp fire girl, and little Mary.
Main page.

Homes for Paper Dolls, Harper's Bazaar .
Main page.

Industrial art text-books(dolls, clothes, furniture, and rooms) Pages 30-40.
Main page.


What shall we do now?: Five hundred games and pastimes, Paper dolls Pages 258-262. Doll house furniture, pages 243-257 .
Main page.

Taylor First Grade Reader with story and dolls. Pages 42-43(house), and pages 72-74, pages 76-78.

Godey's Magazine - numerous. Scroll down to images of select pages.

Easy steps in housekeeping; or, Mary Frances' adventures among the doll people - doll furniture and story book.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Pictures That Every Child Should Know: a Selection of the World's Art/Google Books



Pictures that every child should know: a selection of the world's art masterpieces for young people
Author Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
Publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908
Length 387 pages
Overview

Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice, and Rain/Google Books


Water wonders every child should know: little studies of dew, frost, snow, ice and rain
Author Jean May Thompson
Publisher Doubleday, Page & company, 1907
Original from Cornell University
Length 233 pages
Overview

Monday, November 16, 2009

Appletons' Chart-primer: Exercises in Reading at Sight, and Language and Color Lessons for Beginners/Google Books

Appletons' chart-primer: exercises in reading at sight, and language and color lessons for beginners

Author Rebecca D. Rickoff
Publisher American Book Company, 1884
Length 48 pages

Overview

The Nursery Lesson Book/Google Books


FIFTY EASY LESSONS, EACH LESSON COMBINING SIMPLE AND PROGRESSIVE INSTRUCTION IN READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC, DRAWING, AND SINGING. More like an activity book as the lessons go quickly, and the material is very general. This is definitely not a mastery approach. 16 songs with music scores included as well.

The nursery lesson book: a guide for mothers in teaching young children
Author Philip Gengembre Hubert
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889
Length 74 pages

Wood wanderings

Nature reader for middle school and up.

Wood wanderings
Author Winthrop Packard
Publisher Small, Maynard and company, 1910
Length 220 pages

Overview

Thursday, November 12, 2009

When Mother Lets Us Cut Out Pictures


When mother lets us cut out pictures
Author Ida Estelle Boyd
Publisher Moffat, Yard and Company, 1912
Length 94 pages
Overview

The Anatomy of the Frog


The anatomy of the frog
Volume 2 of Translations of foreign biological memoirs
Authors Alexander Ecker, George Haslam
Translated by George Haslam
Publisher Clarendon Press, 1889
Length 449 pages

Overview

History of Ancient Egypt , Art, & Atlas /Google Books


Ancient Egypt
The story of the nations
Authors George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman
Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902
Length 408 pages
Overview


An atlas of ancient Egypt

Art in Egypt

Monday, November 9, 2009

Reading--literature: The Primer/Google Books


Reading--literature: the primer
Volume 2411 of Harvard reading textbooks preservation microfilm project
Authors Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free
Publisher Row, Peterson & Company, 1910
Length 120 pages
Overview 

Includes The Gingerbread Boy, The Little Red Hen, and Three Billy Goats Gruff .

Elson-Runkel Primer and Teacher's Copy/Google Books


Elson-Runkel primer

Authors William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1914
Length 128 pages

Manual for the Elson-Runkel primer

Bold and Brave by Horatio Alger/Project Gutenburg

For about 4th through sixth grades. Click here.

From HoratioAlgerJr.com"

What does the Horatio Alger "Strive and Succeed" philosophy consist of? Are there contemporary versions of it?
There are several elements in the Horatio Alger "Strive and Succeed" Philosophy:


* hard work
* study (informal rather than formal)
* loyalty to superiors and subordinates
* abstaining from alcohol
* frugal living
* importance of dress and personal grooming
* personal integrity
* speaking and writing effectively
* non-credal religious values (Unitarian)
* avoidance of violence and revenge
* speaking the whole truth
* brotherhood of males (family without a mother)
* obligation to help and protect the weak and unfortunate
* duty to mother and/or sisters
* courtesy to all
* accepting the success of others
* emphasis on a secure home
* accept assistance of benefactors
* expectation of own success, acceptance
* eschew class hatred


The Alger success formula seems very like what one finds in _The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_. Alger's code is less pragmatic and more altruitstic than Poor Richard's. Alger's code imposes significant personal obligations, but it is not at all individualistic. The Alger code does not seem to have much in common with those individuals labeled "Horatio Alger success stories."

Friday, November 6, 2009

A Child's History Of Art/Internet Archive

Author: V. M. Hillyer, 1933
Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc.
Click here.

Healthful Living, Based on the Essentials of Physiology: for High School Pupils/Google Books


Healthful living, based on the essentials of physiology: for high school pupils
Author Jesse Feiring Williams
Publisher Macmillan, 1919
Length 431 pages
Overview

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Bee-man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales/Google books

The bee-man of orn and other fanciful tales
Author Frank Richard Stockton
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919
Length 193 pages
Overview

Middle school and up.

Includes Old Pipes and the Dryad

Boy's Adventure Novel: The Aztec Treasure-house/Google Books


We haven't read this one, but did see it recommended for the seventh grade in this old children's resource bibliography.

Book overview from Google Books:
"The narrator travels in Mexico with a party including a Franciscan monk and an Indian youth, to find a lost race of Aztecs and a hidden treasure of gold, jewels and writings."

The Aztec treasure-house: a romance of contemporaneous antiquity
Author Thomas Allibone Janvier
Publisher Harper, 1890
Length 446 pages
Overview

Friday, October 30, 2009

Want Not, Waste Not/Google Books

Didactic character training for ages 7-10(approximate).

Waste not, want not: or, Two strings to your bow
Author Maria Edgeworth
Publisher G. Routledge and Sons, 1883
Length 127 pages

Overview

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Stepping Stones to Literature(First Grade) Reader/Google Books


Beautifully illustrated first grade reader.

Stepping Stones to Literature
Authors Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert
Publisher Silver, Burdett and company, 1902
Length 128 pages

Overview

Fanciful Tales by Frank Richard Stockton/Gooogle Books

Fanciful Tales
Authors Frank Richard Stockton, Julia Elizabeth Langworthy
Editor Julia Elizabeth Langworthy
Publisher C. Scribner's Sons, 1904
Length 135 pages

As recommended by Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics, 1904. Recommended for fourth grade, but great for read aloud for younger and older elementary aged children.

Kingsley's Greek Heroes/Project Gutenburg

Appropriate for fourth - fifth grades.

Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics/Google Books

A general study guide for fourth through eighth grade students.

Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics in the Grades of the Common School
Author Charles Alexander McMurry
Publisher Macmillan, 1904
Length 254 pages

Overview

Chapter Three is most useful followed by the list of books.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Fall/Autumn Nature Study, Literature, and Poetry

Click here.

Peter and Polly Readers/Google Books


There is no mention of grade, but I think it may be advanced second grade, early third. These books are free to read online, download, or print(right click on image of page). Pages are printable as long as you have them set on HTML(bottom of Google Book pages). I've linked the pages defaulted to HTML. The standard mode allows scrolling through the pages, but excludes printable pages.

Peter and Polly in Autumn by Rose Lucia

American Book Co., 1918
Length 176 pages


Also see:

Peter and Polly in Winter

Peter and Polly in Spring

Peter and Polly in Summer

Peter and Polly Dolls, not related, but cute vintage craft activity for the lower grades.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Biology/Other

First year college Biology book here.

The Online Biology Book is hosted by Estrella Mountain Community College.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Google Books Blocking Download Helpers

If you are using a download helper for downloading books at Google Books, you may receive a temporary ban(24 hours) from downloading. Spidering is against the terms of service, and download helpers appear to trigger blocking. I'll be taking down the link for the free download helper. It's a shame because this was a very handy way for me to download books a little at a time with my slow connection.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Reading Selections on Fish Migration


These free public domain resources were used to develop an essay with leveled reading selections from multiple grades(third through eighth grade).

Sharing here.

Penelope's Irish Experiences/Google Books

Penelope's Irish Experiences
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901
Length 327 pages

Overview

Monday, October 12, 2009

Thursday, October 8, 2009

A Short History of the Catholic Church

A Short History of the Catholic Church
Authors Hermann Wedewer, Joseph McSorley
Publisher B. Herder Book Co., 1916
Length 357 pages

Overview.

The Scottish Chiefs/Google Books


First published in England in 1809, The Scottish Chiefs became enormously popular throughout all of Europe.  This sweeping epic depicts the 1296-1305 rebellion of the Scots against the tyrannical King Edward, a rebellion led by the gallant Sir William Wallace, Edward's "equal in all things but crown and his superior in being true to unblemished honor."  The heroic adventures of Wallace as he fights to return the throne of Scotland and restore peace to his homeland will enthrall a new generation of readers. ~ Lamp Post Books(Beautiful Feet Books)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Down the Snow Stairs/Google Books


Down the snow stairs; or, From good-night to good-morning
Author Alice Corkran
Publisher Scribner and Welford, 1887
Length 257 pages

Overview here.

"On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Kitty cannot sleep, knowing that her beloved little brother is critically ill due to her own disobedience. Traveling in a dream to Naughty Children Land, she meets many strange people, including Daddy Coax and Lady Love. Kitty longs to return to the Path of Obedience but can she resist the many temptations she faces? Will she nd her way home in time for Christmas? An imaginative and delightful read-aloud for the whole family!" from Salem Ridge Books.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Wonderful Tales from Denmark/Google Books


Wonderful tales from Denmark
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher James Miller, 1864
Length 314 pages

Overview