Essentials Reader

$ 19⁰⁰

The Essentials Reader:
Readings to Accompany Logic of English Essentials

Engage the interest and build the confidence of older struggling readers!

Now available in both hardcover and PDF!

Thirty high-interest passages controlled for the phonics and language concepts students are learning in Essentials. When combined with Essentials, students are able to successfully sound out every word, with no sight words or guessing, thereby building fluency and confidence. Combined with the Essentials Reader Teacher's Guide and Student Activity Book, The Essentials Reader may be used as a complete reading comprehension and composition program for upper elementary grades or struggling readers of any age.

These texts are designed with the older student in mind. While many early readers appear "babyish" to an older student, The Essentials Reader engages students with topics such as sports, history, science, and inspiring biographies. In addition, The Essentials Reader supports students in developing fluency with the tools they are learning in Essentials, teaches academic vocabulary, and when combined with the Essentials Reader Teacher's Guide develops comprehension skills.

High-interest texts written for older students!
No sight words! - when introduced with the corresponding Essentials lessons
Phonics controlled
Natural language
Fiction and non-fiction texts, including poems, a recipe, short stories, and informational texts
Diverse topics such as sports, science, technology, and biographies
Engaging illustrations and call-outs
Scheduled as optional reading practice in the Essentials curriculum
Pre-reading word lists marked with Logic of English spelling analysis markings
Academic vocabulary
Texts grow in length as students progress in ability

Recommended for

Ages 8 to adult
As a reading comprehension and composition curriculum for Grades 3-6
Older struggling readers
Students with dyslexia
Students who are using Essentials or another complete phonics curriculum to strengthen basic reading skills.

Learn More

About The Essentials Reader
Essentials: Multi-Level Reading, Spelling, Grammar, & Vocabulary
On the blog: posts about helping struggling readers
On our YouTube™ channel: Teaching Struggling Readers and Spellers

High-Interest, Controlled Texts

Ten Quips
Buck Got Stuck
Acorns for Peter
Bed Racing
Wombats
Futnet
Just Call Her Shelly
Weather
Astronauts
Molasses Banana Bread
Felix the Frog
Stars of the Sea
The Toothpick Fighters
William Kamkwamba
Geothermal Energy
The Tale of Paul Bunyan
The Story of Chocolate
A Perilous Escape
Robert Smalls
The Milkmaid, the Brothers, and the Lessons They Learned
An Open Letter to the Banyan Tree
The Boy Who Wanted a Drum
The Message of the Drum
Grace Murray Hopper
Iditarod
Togo
Billy Mills
Sepak Takraw
Robert Louis Stevenson
Biddy Mason

Suggested Materials

Essentials Reader Teacher's Guide
Essentials Reader Student Activity Book
Essentials These reading passages are designed to accompany Essentials lessons and provide practice with the reading and spelling concepts introduced.

Product Details

Available in hardcover and PDF. Choose the format you want from the drop-down menu above. (Learn about downloads.)

Print

Full color
Hardcover
184 pages
Weight: 1 lb.
Product SKU: CER1P
ISBN: 978-1-936706-93-8

PDF

Downloadable PDF format.
- Digital version - PDF formatted for a tablet, computer, or other electronic device, with full color and pages in standard order.
Product SKU: CER1A
ISBN 978-1-936706-94-5

A note for those using Essentials 1st Edition

The Reader lessons are numbered to correspond with the lesson numbering in Essentials 2nd edition (2015) and later. The Reader may also be used with the first edition of Essentials (2012), but some adjustment will be necessary because of the difference in numbering between the two editions. Appendix A, at the back of the Reader, indicates which phonograms and rules students need to have learned before reading each lesson's text.

PDF License

Copyright Notice: Our digital downloads come with a limited reproduction license. Licensed users may use the files on any device or computer and may print them, but may not sell, share, copy, transfer, or distribute files or prints to people not covered by the license.

Single Student/Family License: This digital license is for use by ONE student or the members of ONE immediate family, including parents, children, and grandparents. If you are teaching additional students outside your immediate family, you must purchase an additional Single Student/Family License for each student.

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