Elson Readers

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  • August 5, 2011 at 1:40 pm
    maynegirl
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    Has anyone used or had some familiarity with the Elson Readers? I am looking for another good primer for my 5yo DS.  I purchased The Primer by Free & Treadwell, and that is going over really well, but the First Reader is still a bit beyond him. I saw the Elson Primer on Amazon, and it has one review, very good. I don’t have any way to look at a sample, though. I’d love to hear from anyone who has read the Elson Primer and would love some other suggestions for good beginning reading material. Thanks.

    August 5, 2011 at 2:53 pm
    suzukimom
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    I think I have the grade 2 Elson reader (haven’t seen the primer) – it looks pretty good….

    I use the reprints of the Dick and Jane primers and my kids love them.  

    We do the primers and then we use the newer “Fun with Dick and Jane” (because I haven’t found an original I can afford)  And then we use an original “Our New Friends” which was the reader for the 2nd half of grade 1….

     

    here are my blog posts on it…

    http://maplehillacademy.blogspot.com/2010/02/look-look-see-see-see-echo-read.html

    http://maplehillacademy.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-about-dick-and-jane.html

     

    August 5, 2011 at 3:57 pm
    Rachel White
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    I can’t recommend the Elson enough, my two have used them since the Primer. My son just finished Reader 3 and my dd, Reader 2. I don’t use them with the TG’s that have worksheets to make it a full LA curriculum. I’ve used them for independent reading and narration practice and also for exposure to poems and folkstories that they might otherwise not have an opportunity to read (and the copywrite is early enough before PC kicked into our children’s stories) and, like the Treadwell books. are not twaddly.

    The other readers they used were the Treadwell books and the PAthway readers; extremely easy, but wholesome reading. They are caught up in the lives of the characters now, so I just let them read those for fun.

    Also, any of the book directed for 4-6 yr olds would probaby be very good reads for him at Yesterday’s Classics under Lit,NAture and Legends. Then you could probably find them all at Baldwin Project (http://www.mainlesson.com for free.

    Others I highly recommedn are published from Rod and Staff; their PRe-k and K readers are wonderful-http://www.rodstaff.com/cgi-bin/ras/perlshop.cgi?ACTION=enter&thispage=stories1.html&ORDER_ID=!ORDERID!

    Rachel

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