William H. Elson Christine M. Keck Christine M. Keck
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...
William H. Elson Christine M. Keck Christine M. Keck
Book Seven introduces a world of literature that advances students knowlege of the world around them and provides rich and fertile ground for the development of not only their vocabulary and grammar, but their imagination, literary appreciation, humor, and values. This volume contains a wide range of literature, from stories of the legendary King Arthur to epic works of American literature. Here will be found the works of giants of English literature such as Shakespeare, Masefield, Longfellow, Twain, Whitman, and Thoreau, to name only a few. The World of Nature reminds us of the beauty of the...
Book Seven introduces a world of literature that advances students knowlege of the world around them and provides rich and fertile ground for the deve...
William H. Elson William H. Elson Christine M. Keck
Book Eight, the culmination of the Elson Reader series, is brimming with great literature with which every child and adult should be familiar. Here will be found masterworks extolling the beauty and magnificence of nature; stirring tales of adventure and mystery; inspiring poetry, speeches, and discourses on our great American experiment in liberty; and literature of life in our homeland describing the triumphs and tragedies of American history and life, classics of American humor, and tributes to American workers and their work. In this volume we hear from giants of literature such as...
Book Eight, the culmination of the Elson Reader series, is brimming with great literature with which every child and adult should be familiar. Here wi...
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...
