Book One continues and expands the task of teaching reading started with Primer. In this volume the type and spacing remain expanded for ease of letter recognition, but the stories are longer and their structure a bit more complex. The aim of upholding sound wholesome character development has not been forgotten, and this book contains moral-stories from Aesop, along with folk tales and charming stories from Eudora Bumstead, Christina Rosetti, Edna Riddleberger, and Robert Louis Stevenson among others. The illustrations are again by L. Kate Deal and provide visual clues to the meanings of the...
Book One continues and expands the task of teaching reading started with Primer. In this volume the type and spacing remain expanded for ease of lette...
The reading adventure started with Primer and Book One continues with Book Two, giving children the tools they need for a lifetime of reading full of pleasure, adventure, and knowledge. In this volume will be found treasured stories from our past tales and lessons from Aesop; classics like Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and The Three Pigs; folk tales from Italy, India, Norway, Greece, Russia, and Japan; stories from great childrens authors like Eudora Bumstead, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hans Christian Andersen, Christina Rossetti, and the Grimm brothers, among others. Illustrated by L. Kate...
The reading adventure started with Primer and Book One continues with Book Two, giving children the tools they need for a lifetime of reading full of ...
The Elson Readers, Book Three offers children longer, more complex, and complete stories and poems than Primer, Book One, and Book Two had offered. The text, while eminently readable, is now more normally proportioned and spaced. Still drawing on classics of children s literature from sources as varied as Aesop, the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, American Indian stories, Greek legends, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, and adaptations of the Biblical stories of Joseph and David; this volume is filled with literary treasures with which a child should be made familiar on their road...
The Elson Readers, Book Three offers children longer, more complex, and complete stories and poems than Primer, Book One, and Book Two had offered. Th...
Book Four serves as a transitional book for children moving from learning to read to reading to learn, as Elson put it. While earlier books in this series have stressed the mechanics of reading, Book Four shifts to applying those critical skills to reading for content. Book Four introduces children to stories of legendary heroes like Beowulf, Sigurd, and Roland and works from a diverse selection of great writers like Lewis Caroll; James Whitcomb Riley; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Henry David Thoreau; to name only a few. Book Four ends with a section devoted to Great American Authors including...
Book Four serves as a transitional book for children moving from learning to read to reading to learn, as Elson put it. While earlier books in this se...
Book Five is the first volume devoted to helping the student read to learn as opposed to learn to read, a subtle, but important, distinction. The picture books are left behind, and the reader is introduced to a world made of words. Illustrations play a diminishing role, while the literature itself is emphasized. Understanding the meaning of the stories and poetry is the emphasis from this volume through the last, Book Eight. Children will be charmed by prose and poetry about the natural world; inspired by stories of home, country, and service; delighted by tales from The Arabian Nights; and...
Book Five is the first volume devoted to helping the student read to learn as opposed to learn to read, a subtle, but important, distinction. The pict...
Book Six introduces the young reader to the progenitors of our Western literature the stories of Greece and Rome. What education would be complete without a familiarity with the stories of the great heroes; Achilles, Ulysses, and Aeneas? Those stories can be found in Book Six along with stories of nature, home, and country by the likes of John James Audubon, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, Washington Irving, Joyce Kilmer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Theodore Roosevelt, William Wordsworth, and many others. This volume ends with a...
Book Six introduces the young reader to the progenitors of our Western literature the stories of Greece and Rome. What education would be complete wit...
