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  • Aldine (1907) 158 pages. Progressive sight reader. "Come play. Come and play."
  • Baldwin Primer 65 sheets, two pages per sheet. Needs rotation. Slow load, but includes the alphabet, progressive vocabulary, manuscript and cursive, music scores, poetry, games, shapes, colors, and paper folding, among other things.
  • Elson-Runkle 44 sheets, two pages per sheet. Easy reader. Starts with a cat story.
  • The Rose Primer 128 pages,  alphabet and progressive vocabulary starting with "Rose." Pleasant stories and an alphabet song, comprehensive vocabulary list on the final pages.
  • Beacon Primer 66 sheets, two pages per sheet. Phonetic. Alternates between pages of word lists and reading selections, with many helpful phonics teaching notes throughout.
  • Baker Action Primer (1906) Nice pictures. Progressive text. Includes cursive. Starts with "See me."
  • Little Linen Primer 7 sheets, two pages per sheet. Progressive and short.
  • National School First Reader (1888) Alphabet, progressive sight words. Well illustrated. 72 pages. Starts with "Dog it is a dog."
  • Normal Course in Reading (1892) 67 pages. Includes manuscript and cursive. Starts with "A cat."
  • Ontario Primer 44 sheets, two pages per sheet. Needs rotation. Poetry, easy reading, children's stories, cursive and manuscript.
  • Progressive Primer 63 pages. Large file, but worth the wait. Ornate. Alphabet, fast-progressing text with fun selections each followed by 8 new words, ending with hearth, frown, throw.
  • Sander's Union Primer (1876) 45 pages. Alphabet, sounds, words, text, cursive, ornate illustrations. Large file, but worth the wait.
  • McGuffey's Primer Slow download. 60 pages. Alphabet. Phonic progression starts with "A rat and a cat." Maximum of 6 new words per lesson. Includes cursive.
  • Osgood's Primer 45 pages. Various alphabets, manuscript and cursive, simple words, progressive. 65 lessons.
  • Holton-Curry Readers Primer 64 sheets, 2 pages per sheet, needs rotation. Progressive vocabulary, starting with "Boys, boys, jolly boys." Fun text and poetry.
  • Aunt Mary's Primer (1851) 33 pages, 120 pretty pictures with captions, lessons and excellent poem at the end about honoring one's mother, worth memorizing or framing.
  • Story Book Primer 57 pages, designed for first grade. Favorite stories retold in easy vocabulary, with new words introduced after each selection. 
  • Baby Primer (1885) "Baby" used to refer to young children. 17 pages. 26 couplets loosely corresponding to the letters of the alphabet.
  • Alphabet of Birds (1851) 19 pages. 26 short poems about birds from Auk to ...Z (no bird for Z, but a cute rhyme about it anyway.)
  • Young Canada Reader 20 pages. Text only. A was an apple pie, and other stories and poems.
  • Foot Steps on the Road to Learning (1850) Alphabet in rhyme. 19 pages. Starts with a 3-letter word for donkey which was at that time not an objectionable word. 
  • Anti-Slavery Alphabet (1847) A piece of history! 12 pages teaching small children to protest this dreadful institution, starting with A is for abolitionist.
  • Winston Primer 144 pages. Short easy stories with morals, starting with "Bunny's Bread," a variation of the Little Red Hen.
  • Alphabet of Virtues 27 pages of A-Z Christian virtues from the Christian Bible.
  • Alphabet of Games 10 oversized pages (leave online or fit to page in print option).

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