About Book Three
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 to cultural literacy.
While charmingly illustrated, there are fewer pictures, and the emphasis is on the literature now that the child has less need for visual clues to understand the text.
The “Word List” has really become a glossary and contains pronunciation guides to the words, which have been updated to current pronunciation notation.
Literature/Youth, ISBN 1-890623-17-2, Softcover, 332 pages, Ages 8-9/Third Grade, Illustrated, Word List, 750L, Trim Size 5.5" x 8.5"
About the Teacher’s Guide
This Teacher's Guide provides answers to the “Helps to Study” section, found at the back of the
reader, and additional exercises have been developed, with accompanying
worksheets that the parent or teacher may copy and hand out to their
students.
At the beginning of this guide will be
found a list of “Objectives” which the lessons are designed to help
the child accomplish. At the end of this book will be found the same
“Word List” found in Book Three.
Literature/Youth, ISBN
1-890623-27-X, Softcover, 184
pages, Ages 8-9/Third Grade, Illustrated,
Word List, Trim Size 8.25" x 11"
By William H. Elson
SRP $17.95
By Michele Black
Cynthia Keel Landen
Lorrie Driggers Phillips
SRP $17.95