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Emmas Serl's Language Lessons from Living Books Press

Primary Language Lessons

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Emma Serl’s 1914 editions of Primary Language Arts and Intermediate Language Arts have proven popular with home educators, especially those trying to use a Charlotte Mason approach to education. The books have been slightly updated and improved to varying degrees by various publishers. I have already reviewed those published by Lost Classics Book Company, so I refer you to that review for an understanding of the contents of the books.

There are significant differences between the books published by Lost Classics and those from Living Books Press.

Difference begin with the physical appearance. Lost Classics (LC) books are about the size of half of a page while the Living Books (LB) versions are printed on full 8.5” x 11” pages. LC books have either hardcover or softcover book that are not meant to be consumable while LB books have added lines and space for students to write directly in the books. To make that easier, those books have plastic spiral bindings so they will lie flat. Very significantly, LB has divided Intermediate Language Lessons into three separate books to keep the size manageable.

LB editions also have appendices that include indexes while only Intermediate Language Lessons from LC has an index. LB adds biographies of the authors and artists included for each volume plus a few other extras such as U.S. Postal abbreviations in Intermediate Language Lessons Part I and four additional poems in Part 3.

No teachers editions are available for LB editions, but they do not seem necessary to me.

Primary Language Lessons is used in the Living Books Curriculum for grades 2 and 3, while the three Intermediate Language Lessons are used in grades 4, 5 and 6. However, there is nothing to limit these books to use with the LB curriculum.

Note that there is yet another version of the Emma Serl books from Hillside Education; those are particularly good for Catholic home educators.

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