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Posted: July 08 2010 at 10:06am | IP Logged Quote JaysFamily
I am looking for comparisons of all the Catholic readers. I've received wonderful reviews for Little Angel Readers, Faith and Freedom readers, Little Stories for Little Folks, and the American Cardinal readers. They all sound lovely, but I am not in a position to get my hands on all of them to see how they compare.

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Posted: July 08 2010 at 11:02am | IP Logged Quote Bridget
We like the Little Angel Readers best. So far I have taught six to read with them. (Well my 6th is still in the trenches.) LSFLF is lovely and very good, the little booklets just made us crazy to fold, use and keep track of.

Faith and Freedom readers are wonderful and my children do enjoy reading them in their free reading time, they just don't learn to read well from them.

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Posted: July 08 2010 at 11:23am | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
Dittoing Bridget. I have my 3rd reader in the trenches with Little Angel Readers. We do supplement with the little readers from CHC because I have them, but they're supplements and I don't really teach from them anymore. I've used them as supplemental readers for practice for all my children.

I do like the American Cardinal Readers, but I don't teach from them. I use them as supplemental reading for practice starting with the primer once I have a reader that is about at a 2nd grade reading level. I don't use them exclusively for the only reading practice, but the writing is lovely (although challenging when comparing to today's writing) and the content is quite good. I use the Cardinal Readers like this: once a child is reading well the child sits with me and reads aloud to me from these books. Then he narrates back. I can catch areas from phonics that need extra practice.

Hope this helps.

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Posted: July 08 2010 at 4:06pm | IP Logged Quote pmeilaen
I start the American Cardinal Reader and/or Faith and Freedom Reader in Grade 1 after completing the phonics program from CHC. My daughters prefer the Faith and Freedom Readers, my son the American Cardinal Readers. We also use the Art-Literature Readers from Our Lady of Victory. Each child reads them independently from me. Right now all the girls are reading all three readers each grade. My son has switched to the Catholic National Reader in grade 5.

I think that the Catholic National Reader is the most challenging one. We do the question and answers from Kolbe with that one. The Faith and Freedom Readers are the easiest ones. The Art Literature Readers have a different format, so it's hard to compare them with the rest. The American Cardinal Readers fall somewhere in between.   

I haven't used the Little Angel Readers or the ones from CHC.

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Posted: July 08 2010 at 5:46pm | IP Logged Quote Stephanie_Q
From my experience, LSLF and Little Angels include phonics instruction and exercises; American Cardinal and Faith & Freedom are more sight word based - supplemental to a phonics program. Faith and Freedom are like Catholic Dick & Jane, American Cardinal really are nice. We have LSLF but I always wanted to try Little Angels.

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