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Free Vintage Graded Readers
Choose a grade level from the menu below to find vintage readers for your child. These vintage school readers, published in the late 1800s and early 1900s, are now in the public domain and free online as ebooks. You’ll find well-known classics like McGuffey, Elson, and Treadwell, as well as many other lesser-known series. There are 40+ reader series to choose from. At the bottom of this page, there’s also a list of teachers’ manuals for several reader series.
Teachers’ Manuals
If you need a little guidance in teaching your child to read, teachers’ manuals are available for several reader series:
- Beacon Reading: A Manual of Instructions for Teachers Using the Beacon Readers
- The Child’s World Readers Manual
- How to Teach Reading: A Manual for the Use of Teachers to Accompany Monroe’s Primary Reading Charts and Monroe’s New Primer
- Learning to Read: A Manual for Teachers Using The Aldine Readers
- Manual for the Elson-Runkel Primer
- Primary Reading and Literature: A Manual for Teachers to Accompany the Primer, First, and Second Readers of the Reading-Literature Series (Treadwell)
- Reading With Expression: A Teachers’ Manual to Accompany the First and Second Readers
More Free Reading Resources
Here are several additional resources for teaching reading and literature in your homeschool.
Therefore, the selection of their first lesson books is a matter of grave importance, because it rests with these to give children the idea that knowledge is supremely attractive and that reading is delightful.
