Third Grade English

The Poetical Works of Mary Howitt by Mary Howitt (1855)*
The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1863)*
Child Life: A Collection of Poems edited by John Greenleaf Whittier (1874)*
Childhood Songs by Lucy Larcom (1875)*
Poetry for Children by Samuel Eliot (1879)*
William Cullen Bryant:  A Biographical Sketch with Selections of His Poems and Other Writings by Andrew James Symington (1880)*
The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow:  Including the Shepherd Lady and Other Poems by Jean Ingelow (1880)*
Wild Roses of Cape Ann and Other Poems by Lucy Larcom (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)*
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)*
The Heart of Oak Books Volume 3 by Charles Eliot Norton and Kate Stephens (1895)
Nature in Verse:  A Poetry Reader for Children by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1896)*
The Poems of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (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)*
Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)*
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)*
Classic Myths by Mary Catharine Judd (1901)**
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1901)*
New Education Readers:  Reading for the Third Year by Abraham Jay Demarest and William Maturin Van Sickle (1901)
The Mother Tongue Book I:  Lessons in Speaking, Reading, and Writing English by Sarah Louise Arnold and George Lyman Kittredge (1902)
Stepping Stones to Literature:  A Third Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1902)
Wheeler's Graded Readers:  A Third Reader by Gail Calmerton and William H. Wheeler (1904)
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)
Poems by Grades:  Primary (First-Fourth Year) (includes seasonal poems and memory gems) by Ada Van Stone Harris and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1907)
Graded Lessons in Language Book One:  Third Year through Fifth Year by Rosa Viola Winterburn (1908)
Guide Books to English, Book One (Third-Fifth Year) by Ada Van Stone Harris and Charles Banajah Gilbert (1910)
Standard Catholic Readers Third Year by Mary E. Doyle (1913)
A Method for Teaching Primary Reading by Lida Brown McMurry (1914)
The Goose Quill:  Third Year Language Book by Louise Robinson (1918)
Games and Rhymes for Language Teaching in the First Four Grades by Alhambra Georgia Deming (1919)
A Book of Famous Verse by Agnes Repplier (1920)*
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.