Readers
Here are entered works containing material for instruction and practice in reading English. Readers in other languages are entered under the name of the language with subdivision Readers.
Material designed exclusively or predominantly for oral presentation is entered under Recitations.
Selections of reading material in the English language, literary as well as non-literary, compiled for training college students in reading comprehension, rhetoric and related topics are entered under College readers. Works containing literary selections for general use as well as for the study of literature are entered under appropriate literary headings, e.g. American literature; English literature -- 18th century.
Works containing reading material in a particular subject field or literary genre are entered under headings illustrated by the following examples: For English Readers -- Agriculture, [Art, Geography, etc.; Readers -- Drama, Fairy tales, Love stories, etc.] For other languages French language -- Readers -- Science; French language -- Readers -- Science fiction.
Works containing reading material limited to a specific age level are entered under Readers (Primary), [(Elementary), etc.]
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Readers -- African Americans
- Readers -- Animals
- Readers -- Canada
- Readers -- Citizenship
- Readers -- Folklore
- Readers -- Geography
- Readers -- Mythology
- Readers -- United States
- Bengali language -- Readers
- Chinese language -- Readers
- Egyptian language -- Readers
- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Readers
- German language -- Readers
- Greek language -- Readers
- Hindi language -- Readers
- Italian language -- Readers
- Khmer language -- Readers
- Latin language -- Readers
- Mohawk language -- Readers
- Nahuatl language -- Readers
- Norwegian language -- Readers
- Old Norse language -- Readers
- Oriya language -- Readers
- Telugu language -- Readers
- Urdu language -- Readers
- Chrestomathies
- Preschool readers
- English language -- Readers
- English language -- Chrestomathies
- Basal reader
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Indians of the Pueblos: A Story of Indian Life (Chicago et al.: Laidlaw Bros., c1936), by Therese O. Deming, ed. by Milo B. Hillegas, illust. by Edwin Willard Deming (page images at HathiTrust)- Betty June and Her Friends (New York et al.: American Book Co., 1929), by Lena B. Ellingwood, illust. by Ruth Mary Hallock (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Fifth Reader (from the De La Salle series; revised edition, 1922) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- The Child Life Fifth Reader (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Etta Blaisdell McDonald and Mary Frances Blaisdell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Children of the Cliff (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1905), by Belle Wiley and Grace Willard Edick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1911), by Florence Holbrook (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The English Reader, or Pieces in Prose and Poetry (Utica: Printed by Hastings & Tracy, 1827), ed. by Lindley Murray (page images at Pitt)
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (HTML at Baldwin Project)
- The First Reader (Appleton's School Readers #1; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1878), by William Torrey Harris, Andrew J. Rickoff, and Mark Bailey (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Fishing and Hunting (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1905), by Sarah M. Mott and Maude Barrows Dutton Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Many Lands: A Third Reader (New York and Chicago: Globe School Book Co., c1901), ed. by Florence Holbrook and Mary Frances Hall
- Graded Poetry: Seventh Year, ed. by Katherine Devereux Blake and Georgia Alexander (Gutenberg text)
- A History of the McGuffey Readers (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1911), by Henry Hobart Vail (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- Introduction to the National Reader (New York : George F. Cooledge, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (New York: American Book Co., c1879), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's New Fifth Eclectic Reader: Selected and Original Exercises for Schools (Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle; New York: Clark & Maynard, c1857), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader: Instructive Lessons for the Young (Cincinnati: Wilson, Hinkle & Co.... c1866), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, With Introductory Rules and Examples (Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson & Hinkle; New York: Clark & Maynard, c1857), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader (Cincinnati: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., c1879), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at Pitt)
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1921; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition (New York et al: John Wiley and Sons, c1920; with transcriber commentary), contrib. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text and other formats)
- The New Barnes Readers, Book One, First Year, Second Half (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes Company, c1916), by Herman Dressel, May Robbins, and Ellis U. Graff, illust. by Mabel D. Hill (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- The New McGuffey First Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
- The New McGuffey Fourth Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
- Reading-Literature: First Reader (1911), by Harriette Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, illust. by Frederick Richardson (illustrated HTML with commentary at Baldwin Project)
- Sanders' Union Fourth Reader, by Charles W. Sanders (Gutenberg text)
- The Taylor School Readers: First Reader (Chicago et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1900), by Frances Lilian Taylor
- The Taylor School Readers: Second Reader (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1902), by Frances Lilian Taylor
- Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading, ed. by Horace Elisha Scudder (Gutenberg text)
- Away We Go (The Road to Safety book A; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1938), by Horace Mann Buckley, Margaret L. White, Alice B. Adams, and Leslie R. Silvernale, illust. by Ottilie Foy (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Stories From Lands of Sunshine (New York et al.: University Pub. Co., c1904), by Eleanor Riggs
- Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
- The Tree-Dwellers (Chicago et al.: Rand McNally, c1904), by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, illust. by Howard V. Brown
- Aunt Ann's Lesson-Book, for Very Young Children, in Words of One and Two Syllables (London: Harvey and Darton, 1822), by Friend to little children (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools, Compiled and Annotated, With Questions for Study, ed. by Emilie Kip Baker (Gutenberg text)
- Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Book of Nature Myths (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1902), by Florence Holbrook
- The High School Reader (Toronto: Rose Pub. Co., 1886), by Ontario Department of Education
- The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book (Toronto: T. Eaton Co., c1909), by Ontario Department of Education
- The Ontario Readers: Third Book (Toronto: T. Eaton Co., c1909), by Ontario Department of Education
- The True Citizen: How to Become One, by William Fisher Markwick and William Alexander Smith (Gutenberg text)
- The Book of Nature Myths (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1902), by Florence Holbrook
- The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1898), by Mary Howe Smith Pratt, contrib. by A. Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Geographical Reader, for the Dixie Children (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863), by M. B. Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Story of Aeneas, by Michael Clarke (Gutenberg text)
- Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
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