New Readers Press
Click here to see a 1-page overview of the 4-level Laubach series.
Click here to read about the Laubach Way to Reading teaching method.
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(ESL 1 - true beginners)
BOOK 1: Sounds & Names of Letters
--Name and sound for each letter
--Controlled vocabulary containing 132 words
--The essential foundation is word attack and comprehension skills which will be mastered in subsequent levels
(ESL 1-2)
Book 2: Short Vowel Sounds
--Short vowels sounds and consonant digraphs
--Simple skills of punctuation, strucural analysis, and comprehension
--Introduction of spelling and basic sentence writing
(ESL 3-4)
Book 3: Long Vowel Sounds
--Introductory syllabication and recognition of root word endings
--Further development of comprehension skills
--Reason for Living section is each book helps students relate skills to everyday life
(ESL 4-5)
Book 4: Other Vowel Sounds & Consonant Spellings
--Word analysis skills for contractions, common prefixes, suffixes and compound words
--Drawing conculsions, cause and effect, opinion vs fact
--Introduction of special vowel sounds and different sounds represented by the same consonant
