The Primer is the first book in the Reading-Literature Series by Harriette Treadwell and Margaret Free. Ten delightful folk tales written in a simple style allow children to read the story for themselves. Free and Treadwell saw folktales as the ideal story form to teach reading. The Primer challenges the notion that learning to read has to be a matter of word repetition and phonics drill.

"After years of careful work we present some of these tales so as to utilize the child’s love for the stories and make an easy road to reading. Avoiding the long struggle through forced interest, and the devious byways of artificial methods, we start the child at once into the realm of good, appropriate literature." Preface, The Primer

The Primer is a republication by LBC of the 1910 edition. We have taken care to faithfully reproduce the type and illustrations of the original. The book includes guidlelines for phonics instruction and vocabulary building.

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