First Grade English

Child Life: A Collection of Poems edited by John Greenleaf Whittier (1874)*
Childhood Songs by Lucy Larcom (1875)*
Open Sesame! Poetry and Prose for School-Days by Blanche Wilder Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin (1889)*
Lessons in Language by Mary E. Wilson and Elizabeth P. Sargent (1889)
Tennyson for the Young by Alfred Tennyson (1891)*
Little-Folk Lyrics by Frank Dempster Sherman (1892)*
In the Child's World:  Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Homes by Emilie Poulsson (1893)
The Children's Hour and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1894)*
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children by Flora Juliette Cooke (1895)**
Nature in Verse:  A Poetry Reader for Children by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1896)*
The Poems of H.C. Bunner by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896)*
Round the Year in Myth and Song by Florence Holbrook (1897)**
Stories of Long Ago by Grace Harriet Kupfer (1897)**
The Land of Song for Primary Grades by Katharine H. Shute and Larkin Dunton (1898)*
Mother-Song and Child-Song by Charlotte Brewster Jordan (1898)*
The Land of Song Book II for Lower Grammar Grades by Katharine H. Shute and Larkin Dunton (1899)*
The Heart of Oak Books First Book by Charles Eliot Norton (1899)
New Education Readers Book One (Foundation Work, Practical Application) by Abraham J. Demarest (1900)
New Education Readers:  Development of the Vowels (First Year, Second Term) by Abraham J. Demarest (1900)
Classic Myths by Mary Catharine Judd (1901)**
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1901)*
Wheeler's Graded Readers:  A First Reader by Gail Calmerton and William H. Wheeler (1901)
Special Method in Language in Eight Grades by Charles A McMurry, Ph.D. (1905)
A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson (1906)*
Graded Poetry:  First and Second Years by Katherine Devereux Blake and Georgia Alexander (1906)
Poems by Grades:  Primary (First-Fourth Year) (includes seasonal poems and memory gems) by Ada Van Stone Harris and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1907)
Standard Catholic Readers First Year by Mary E. Doyle (1909)
A Method for Teaching Primary Reading by Lida Brown McMurry (1914)
The Poems of Eugene Field by Eugene Field (1916)*
Games and Rhymes for Language Teaching in the First Four Grades by Alhambra Georgia Deming (1919)
The Spell-to-Write Spelling Books:  Books One and Two (First-Fourth Year) by Ambrose Leo Suhrie and Robert Philip Koehler (1921)

*See A Graded List of Poems and Stories for Use in Schools by Charles Banajah Gilbert and Ada Van Stone Harris (1901) for specific titles of poems and stories suitable for this grade.

**See Helps to the Study of Classical Mythology:  For the Lower Grades and Primary Schools by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1899) for specific titles of myths suitable for this grade.