Reading Basics: from the Phonics to McGuffey Series — Old Fashioned Education

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Phonics

Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades
by Florence Akin

How to Teach Phonics
by Lida M. Williams

Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for the First Grade (1980)
by Hazel Loring

Through the Phonics Barrier: Student Manual (and more)
by Dr. Charles Child Walcutt

Alphabets

An Alphabet of Old Friends
by Walter Crane
Gutenberg Text

The Picture Alphabet
by Oliver Spafford
Gutenberg Text

Footsteps on the Road to Learning; The Alphabet in Rhyme
by Anonymous
Gutenberg Text

The Illustrated Alphabet of Birds
by Unknown
Gutenberg Text
This one is my personal favorite. — MM

Primers

Chambers’ Primer
by Reuben Chambers
Internet Archive
1852

McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer
by William Holmes McGuffey

Aunt Mary’s Primer
by Anonymous
Gutenberg Text

My Own Primer, or, First Lessons in Spelling and Reading
by Rev. John P. Carter, 1862
MSU Sunday School Books in 19th Cen. America

A Primary Reader
by E. Louise Smythe
Gutenberg Text

Readers

New National First Reader
by Charles J. Barnes and Various
Gutenberg Text

The Beacon Second Reader
by James H. Fassett
Gutenberg Text

Parker’s Second Reader
by Richard Green Parker
Gutenberg Text

Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading
by Horace Elisha Scudder
Gutenberg Text

Chambers’s Elementary Science Readers
by Various
Gutenberg Text

Dr. Scudder’s Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen
by Dr. John Scudder
Gutenberg Text

Story Hour Readers — Book Three
by Ida Coe and Alice Julia Christie Dillon
Gutenberg Text

The Child’s World
by W.K. Tate Sarah Withers Hetty Browne
Gutenberg Text

New National Fourth Reader
by Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
Gutenberg Text

The Louisa Alcott Reader:
a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School
by Louisa May Alcott
Gutenberg Text

Elson Grammar School Literature V4
by William H. Elson
Gutenberg Text

Sanders’ Union Fourth Reader
by Charles W. Sanders
Gutenberg Text

MacMillan’s Reading Books Book V
by Anonymous
Gutenberg Text

The Elson Readers, Book 5
by William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
Gutenberg Text

De La Salle Fifth Reader
by Brothers of the Christian Schools
Gutenberg Text

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
by Emilie Kip Baker
Gutenberg Text

Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life
by Orison Swett Marden
Gutenberg Text

English Literature for Boys and Girls
by H. E. Marshall
Gutenberg Text
Designed for 7th to 8th grade

Short Stories for English Courses
by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
Gutenberg Text
For Highschool

McGuffey’s Readers & Speller

McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer
by William Holmes McGuffey

McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s Fourth Eclectic Reader
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s New High School Reader
for advanced classes, embracing about two hundred classic exercises
by William Holmes McGuffey — 1857
Page Images at 19th Century School Books

McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book
by William Holmes McGuffey
Gutenberg Text

The History of McGuffey’s Readers
by Henry H. Vail — 1911
Gutenberg Text

McGuffey’s Script Alphabet