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The EP Fourth Reader is now available in the EP Store. This is our Reading 4 course in book form. As I was able to work closely again with the course, I made some changes which will be appearing on the Reading 4 and Level 4 pages over the Christmas holiday. I have shortened the length of the some of the daily readings and added in more comprehension questions and narration prompts. Some readings have changed day numbers, but the books are still all in the same order. A Little Princess still starts on Day 101 (as a reference). This will mostly affect The Railway Children and The Peterkin Papers. When you go to your day it won’t put you further into a book than they’ve already gone, but it may give you a chapter you’ve already read. You can not have reading that day, read the chapter again, or decide to skip forward.

Level 4 will be the first to try out our new EP Book Spot, where we will be hosting our readings from the public domain, so we won’t have to worry about archive.org going down or links changing on us. And, I am going to try to update the computer course, as I originally made it before they updated to Scratch 2.0.

As for the reader, here it is. Like the others is has all 180 days of assignments from the reading course with the readings and vocabulary exercises built right into the book.

These vocabulary exercises are made to be done on a separate piece of paper. At my request, a family has made us workbooks that match the vocabulary in these readers. They are beautifully done. There are activities that match what’s in the readers and then more for when the reader says to go back and review your words.

This reader, like the the others, has the answers to the vocabulary and reading comprehension questions in the back. (The pictures are all from an earlier version of the reader that I used for proofreading.)

This book got too long, and I had to split it in half. If you are already halfway through the course, you can just pick up part two, but consider getting the vocabulary workbook along with it if you don’t want to use the online review games since most if not all vocabulary activities are in the first half. In the second half they are just told to review their words. Please pay attention to which one you are ordering. They are split right down the middle, Days 1-90 and Days 91-180.

Color: Green (next color in the rainbow)

Interior: black and white

Pages: Part 1: 382;  Part 2: 400

Size: 7.5 x 9.25 inches

Font: Times New Roman size 11 and 12

Find the EP Third Reader in the EP Store.

This is our Reading 3 course in book form. It contains the reading and vocabulary lessons from the third level. Vocabulary exercises and other lessons, such as main idea, are included in the book so that students don’t miss anything found in the online course. This book completely replaces the online course for reading.

Here are some pictures. In this first picture you can see that the assignments are labeled as day numbers, matching the site. The assignment directions and questions are included, again same as the site. Then the reading is included right with the assignment. Since most reading is found in the public domain, we are able to do this. And, I included a few pictures.

 

Vocabulary exercises include matching and multiple choice activities. Students are told to write their answers on a separate piece of paper.

 

 

 

 

Answers are included for the vocabulary exercises and for the reading comprehension questions.

 

 

Book Stats:

Pages: 482

Size: 7.5 x 9.25 inches

Font: Times New Roman 11 (mostly)

Cover: Yellow (next in the rainbow)

Inside: black and white

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Here we go. Another book is complete. EP’s Reading 2 curriculum (which is all of the reading and vocabulary assignments from level 2) is now in book form. The 180 days of assignments have been included along with all of the readings. Vocabulary activities and any lessons that were found online were recreated in the book. Here’s a vocabulary matching activity. The students are told to write their answers on a separate piece of paper. Someone’s working on a workbook which will have these vocabulary activities and more.

You can use the book alone, or hop online to play vocabulary review games where indicated, or any time really!

There are not many pictures, but I have included some pictures in the poetry section to help with comprehension.

 

Two times in the curriculum I tell the kids they can ask someone to read the poem/story to them if they find it difficult. It also mentions where you can listen to the story online.

Answers for the reading comprehension questions and vocabulary exercises are found in the back of the book.

Book Stats:

size: 7.5 in. by 9.25 in. (same as EP First Reader)

#of pages: 378

font: mostly Times New Romans size 12

color: black and white (inside), orange (outside)  Since I am making seven readers, I am coloring them like the rainbow. The first reader was red. This one is orange. The EP Third Reader will be yellow, etc.

 

As with the other books, free books will be sent to those who need them. (Go to the EP store page.)

 

Updated: Our most recent edition is the second edition It is EP’s Learn to Read course and has the updated names and language now found in the online course.

This book has all of the reading lessons from Getting Ready 1 and Getting Ready 2 (which have been combined on the site onto the page named “Learn to Read.”)

For the sight words, I wrote them in large font. To teach my kids I covered up the words with a large index card to help focus attention on the word I was introducing and practicing. I would say the word and then have my child say the word. I would ask what the word was. After I showed my kid all the words, I would show a word to see if it was remembered. In only takes a few minutes, a few times a day. It works just like on the site. Review the words a few times during the day (I suggest breakfast, lunch and dinner) and then have your child read the lesson to you.

After the Primer, McGuffey’s First Eclectic Reader is included. Again, all images are included. On the site there are no longer sight words. In this portion, I typed out the new words for each section to make them easier to show your child since they don’t have all the phonetic markings on them.

Finally, there are over 100 phonics lessons from the site. Since I was working so closely with them, I was able to make some edits which will begin appearing in the course on Easy Peasy’s site. These are the pdf phonics lessons from Learn to Read (Getting Ready 2).

Book Stats:

Size: 8.5 by 11 inches

Length: 305 pages

Color: black and white

Font: differs, mostly Times New Roman, size 16-28, depending on where in the book

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I told you I would tell you more about the EP First Reader. This book is the offline version of our Reading 1 course which is the reading and vocabulary lessons from Level 1. I made the decision to go totally offline so you wouldn’t be caught off guard on any given day with needing the internet.

The EP First Reader, by necessity, had to be altered in some ways from the online course, though I tried to keep things as similar as I could where possible. I had to replace readings that weren’t in the public domain, and I created reading and vocabulary activities to replace online ones. These are simple activities such as coming up with synonyms and antonyms of words and coming up with words in the same “families.”

Each day is labeled and is followed by the day’s assignment, just like on the site. The assignments were edited as necessary to avoid references to links, etc.  The assignment directions are immediately followed by the day’s reading. There are no longer instructions to stop reading at a certain point. They can just read until they get to the next day marker.

If there is a question in the assignment directions, it is followed by (Answers), so you know there’s an answer in the back if you want to look it up. Answers are labeled by day number

 

 

 

I did include some, not all, pictures from the readings. In the EP First Reader this is mostly for fun and to break things up. In older levels it is used sometimes to aid in understanding, especially with the poetry. (The picture below is from my Word document, not the book.)

 

What else would you like to know? There is no longer a worksheet to fill out for a book report, just directions for what to write. The last book included is one that had never before been published. It’s a replacement book I used. It’s one I wrote about eight years ago and is based on real life, when our family lived in a Roma (Gypsy) village in Macedonia.

Over the weekend I edited the book to include a note on the last page. It asks that you consider passing the book along to a family in need when your family is finished with it. We have gotten a lot of requests for free books, and I would encourage everyone to take part in the ministry of helping other families homeschool by passing on your book instead of reselling it. We’ll facilitate your doing that if you are interested when the time comes.

Some book stats: 344 pages, 7.5 by 9.25 inches, font is size 12

This book is for sale now. I’ll update when it’s available on Amazon and on Kindle. From what I checked the shipping is a little cheaper from the CreateSpace store.