Phonics – Learn To Read
Sight Reading – Learn To Read
- McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer, Revised Edition
- McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
Reading 1
- The Tale of Jolly Robin, Bailey
- The Tale of Solomon Owl, Bailey
- The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker, Bailey
- The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, Burgess
- Buster Bear, Burgess
- Abroad, Crane
- McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
- Beatrix Potter stories
- a variety of other short stories and poems
Reading 2
- The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, Thornton W. Burgess
- The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, Thornton W. Burgess
- The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge, Hope
- Poetry by Walter De La Mare, James Riley, Christina Rossetti
- Short stories: Beatrice Potter stories, “Fifty Famous Stories”,
and a variety of other short stories
Level 3
- Heidi, Spyri
- The Bears of Blue River, Major
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Sidney
- Poetry by William Blake, Sara Teasdale, Hilda Conkling, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow - Short stories: Aesop’s Fables (selection), as well as a variety
of other short stories and plays
Level 4
- McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
- Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss, abridged for EP by Giles
- The Railway Children, Nesbit
- The Peterkin Papers, Hale
- A Little Princess, Burnett
- The Storybook of Science, Fabre (nonfiction)
Level 5
- Treasure Seekers, Nesbit
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll
- Little Men, Alcott
- Pollyanna, Porter
- Poems: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf
Whittier, Christina Rossetti, E. E. Cummings, Paul Dunbar - Short Stories: selection of Aesop’s Fables, “Balderdash” by
Giles, McGuffey’s Eclectic Fourth Reader, Revised Edition, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, and short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dickens
Level 6
- The Jungle Book, Kipling
- Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
- Penrod, Tarkington
- Black Beauty, Sewell
- Jack and Jill, Alcott
- The Fairy-Land of Science, Buckley
- Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost
- Short stories: Jim Wolf and the Cats, Twain; How Santa Claus Found the Poor House, Swett; The Time Shop, Bangs; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country, Twain; The Send-and-Fotch Book, Hall; The Sounding of the Call, London; The Million Pound Bank Note, Twain; A Christmas Dream and How It Came True, Alcott
Level 7
- The Spy, James Fennimore Cooper
- Penrod and Sam, Tarkington
- The Call of the Wild, London
- Treasure Island, Stevenson
- The Talisman, Sir Walter Scott
- The King Will Make a Way, Giles
- Poetry: Emily Dickinson, Keats, Tennyson, Tolstoy, Pushkin, MacDonald, Jennings, Cummings, Teasdale, Blake, Wordsworth, Longfellow, and others
Literature & Composition I
- historic autobiography of your choosing
- Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne
- Plays: Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare; The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
- Short stories: “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Ransom of Red Chief”, O’Henry; “The Cask of Amontillado” (partial), Poe; “The Necklace”, Maupassant; other excerpts
- Poetry: Emily Dickinson and others
Literature & Composition II
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain
- Emma, Austen
- Odyssey, Homer
- Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare
- Short stories: “Federigo’s Falcon,” Boccaccio; “The Story of an Hour,” Chopin; “The Interlopers,” Saki; “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,” Doyle; “The Hunger Artist,” Kafka
- Nonfiction: speeches, news articles from The New York Times, The Washington Times and World magazine; excerpts from each of the following: African Game Trails, Roosevelt; The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday; A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Edwards
American Literature
- The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
- The Red Badge of Courage, Crane
- My Antonia, Cather
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee
- Poetry by Bradstreet, Taylor, Bryant, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Harper, Crane, Pound, Frost, Cullen, Stafford, Plath, Wilbur, and Angelou
- Plays: Trifles, Glaspell
- various Letters/Essays/Speeches by Wheatley, Edwards, Henry, Lincoln, Cochise, Chief Joseph, Truth, Stanton, Anthony, Hughes, and King
- Selected Readings by Bradford, Winthrop, Franklin, Paine, Emerson, and Thoreau
British Literature
- Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
- The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, Radcliffe
- Sense and Sensibility, Austin
- Hamlet, Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
- various poetry
- Selected Readings from: Beowulf; The Canterbury Tales; Le Morte D’Arthur; Tyndale’s New Testament; Utopia; Paradise Lost; Frankenstein; Ivanhoe; Oliver Twist; Mere Christianity