Second Grade English

Child Life: A Collection of Poems edited by John Greenleaf Whittier (1874)*
Poetry for Children by Samuel Eliot (1879)*
Thirty Six Lyrics and Twelve Sonnets by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1881)*
The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary by Alice and Phoebe Cary (1882)*
Open Sesame! Poetry and Prose for School-Days by Blanche Wilder Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin (1889)*
Little-Folk Lyrics by Frank Dempster Sherman (1892)*
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1893)*
In the Child's World:  Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Homes by Emilie Poulsson (1893)*
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth (1893)*
Nature in Verse:  A Poetry Reader for Children by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1896)*
Round the Year in Myth and Song by Florence Holbrook (1897)**
Stories of Long Ago by Grace Harriet Kupfer (1897)**
Stepping Stones to Literature:  A Fourth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1897)*
The Land of Song for Primary Grades by Katharine H. Shute and Larkin Dunton (1898)*
The Land of Song Book II for Lower Grammar Grades by Katharine H. Shute and Larkin Dunton (1899)*
The Heart of Oak Books Second Book by Charles Eliot Norton (1900)
Classic Myths by Mary Catharine Judd (1901)**
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1901)*
Stepping Stones to Literature:  A Third Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1902)*
Graded City Speller:  Second, Third, and Fourth Year Grades by William Estabrook Chancellor (1904)
Special Method in Language in Eight Grades by Charles A McMurry, Ph.D. (1905)
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)
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.