[2bluefish]

Anybody use these? How did you use them?

 

[elizawill]

some people use it solely as their reading curriculum. there are vocabulary words with each lesson & each lesson and book progresses and builds upon the next. i like the mcguffey readers but they aren't my favorite... but then again we only use them for reading practice. here are some links to my favorites:

http://www.mainlesson.com/author.php?author=treadwell

http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm

also you can get the mcguffey readers for free online from here: http://www.learn-to-read-prince-geor...y-readers.html

hth.

 

[2bluefish]

Thank you for the links!

 

[AngelBee]

We use these

 

[theretohere]

We're using them. We're also using McGuffey's Eclectic Speller and the Slate exercises.
I really like them. It's not flashy or fancy, but it is time tested and they work.

 

[mom2ponygirl]

We read in them occasionally - acquired a set for free from my parents. I don't try to do anything fancy with them, but they do expose dd to new vocabulary and it is easy to find stories for an advanced reader with themes that are appropriate for a younger kid.

 

[Brisen]

I have the first four, I believe. I used the first with my son, S, when he was just on the verge of starting to read on his own. He was getting really frustrated with trying to read books that were a bit too difficult for him; he tends to stop doing something if he has any feeling at all that he can't do it now. I found they were good for him because they started off at a level that he had just passed, and they slowly progressed, so he never felt out of his depth. We would go over the letter sounds and words given at the start of the lesson, and then he would read to me. He usually wanted to do 2 or 3 lessons at a time.

I think he read all of the first one and part of the second (which is the first reader, IIRC, and starts off easier than the first one, the primer, ends, if that makes sense). By the time he had read those, he was much more confident in his reading skills and was fine reading harder books, but wanted ones that he was interested in, instead of the other McG readers.

He also likes the print and script alphabet in the primer, and working at reading the script sentences in some of the lessons.

 

[JesiLynne]

I love mine

: We use them for reading. and they did help dd learn to read, and the love the speller, we use it for vocab and spelling.

 

[Mama~Love]

How religious are these?

 

[mommy2abigail]

I am contemplating getting these...from what I understand, the readers go all the way through high school level?? Or am I mistaken? Also, does anyone use the workbooks? There are two sets of workbooks, but they are PRICEY!! If they are essential, and carry us for a while (what grade do they go to?) I would get them, simply because dd loves workbooks. If you do use the workbooks, which set do you feel is better/more important? The reading or writing set? Or are they both equally important? Thanks!

 

[elizawill]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mama~Love How religious are these?

i posted a link above where you can download all of the readers and speller for free. they are part of the public domain now through project gutenberg. here it is again: http://www.learn-to-read-prince-geor...y-readers.html

scroll all the way to the bottom.

i don't think they're religious at all. hth.

 

[2bluefish]

"All you do, and all you say,
He can see and hear;
When you work and when you play,
Think the Lord is near.
All your joys and griefs he knows,
Sees each smile and tear;
When to him you tell your woes,
Know the Lord will hear."

That is part of the last lesson of the primer. The nice thing about it being in PDF though is you could omit parts to which you object. For me though it is part of the charm.

I hadn't heard of the workbooks - I'll have to look at those....

 

[theretohere]

We haven't bought the workbooks, but we do use the slate exercises from the books.