It was a reading primer and was one of the first books to differentiate between reading age groups, and which was widely used until the 1890s.

Other teaching materials included comprehensive vocabulary lists, a reading primer called 'Ordinary People', and a textbook by Pears and Wissotsky's 'Passages for Translation'.

In Lessons for Children, a four-volume, age-adapted reading primer, Barbauld employs the concept of a mother teaching her son.

Lessons for Children is a series of four age-adapted reading primers written by the prominent 18th-century British poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld.

She also managed to get the school a part-time librarian and some new reading primers.

Cobwebs to Catch Flies (1783), a reading primer, was perhaps her most popular book; it went through multiple editions in both Britain and America until the 1870s.

The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies.

Her "Child's New Play-Thing," a reading primer, has rhymes, stories and a fold-out alphabet-sheet probably meant to be cut up for some sort of game.

At first it seems almost funny, that the Navy has produced a one-page guide on sexual harassment that reads like a 6-year-old's reading primer.