Vintage 1920’s Reader and Worksheets

Here’s a free printable 47 page PDF workbook of 1920’s reading comprehension and spelling activities!

This workbook has short stories and poems taken from a 1920’s school reader.

The original reader was written by Edith Wilhelmina Lawson in 1926. She was an elementary school teacher.

The book — called A Pet Reader — is full of animal stories.

The reader is filled with plenty of stories and poems of household animals and farm animals!

In this free printable workbook, your child will read each animal story or poem.

Then, they will answer a couple of questions about each story or poem.

On the next page, words from each story or poem will be traced and written out by your student.

Take a look at what’s included in the PDF below.

You may print out your PDF workbook below — for free!

Full Book and Audiobook

If you would like to read the entire book and audiobook, you may do so below.

Please note — not every story has been included in the free workbook I have created. I removed any stories that might seem sad to children (for example, I did NOT include any hunting stories!). The audiobook and link to the full book DO include stories about hunting.

Here is the link to the public domain book.

Here is the link to the audiobook.

The audiobook can be downloaded for free, and put onto a MYO Yoto card, if you wish!

What’s inside the PDF?

Below, you will see just what the PDF will look like!

This workbook is 47 pages long.

This workbook includes over 20 animal short stories and poems.

Your child will read aloud each story or poem.

Below each story/poem, a there will be a few simple, brief questions about each story/poem.

Answering these questions will help your child practice reading comprehension.

For each poem, your student will also identify each of the rhyming words.

For each story or poem your child will also be given a list of words from the story.

These words will be read again. Then, they will practice tracing and writing each word on their own.

You can practice these words even further by turning each page into spelling practice!

See how many words your child can remember the correct spelling for from this page!

Print Your Free Workbook

If you’d like to print out this workbook, you may do so for free below!