Vintage Readers & Sequencing

Harriette Taylor Treadwell

We love classic literature at our house so I was thrilled when I found a whole collection of out of print literature through The Baldwin Project.  It has been especially helpful as I have looked for books to interest my budding reader who sometimes loses interest in bland Mac and Tab type readers.  He is currently enjoying the beautiful primers by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, originally printed in the early 1900's.

Harriette Taylor Treadwell

 You can find her collections of stories from the Primer through the Third Reader here.  Because we wanted to hold the stories in our hands to read them, I have gone through and formatted the stories from her primer for printing. The end result is a half sheet sized book. They aren't perfect, but if you would like to print your own you can click on the titles at the end of this post to access my documents.

Treadwell's beautiful illustrations also lend themselves to simple sequencing activities.  For our recent Little Red Hen unit, I printed the images from the Baldwin Project and let the children use the images to tell the story. Paired with a corresponding sensorial bin and objects for counting, these stories might inspire a whole series of literature units!

Chicken Little

Little Spider's First Web

The Gingerbread Man

The Pancake

Little Tuppens

Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Little Red Hen

Harriette Taylor Treadwell

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