Book Updates & Corrections

The Orange Book
The Newspaper Unit (Lessons 21 – 24) in the Orange Book has been updated to accommodate today’s technology. Download the free revisions here:

• revised unit from the Teacher Book
• revised unit from the Student Book

The following corrections in bold apply to the 3rd edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature books printed in 2017. Minor typos that do not affect the use of the book are not listed. Books with later print dates reflect these changes.

Blue Book
Student

• p. 6 – border should be blue

Red Book
Teacher

• p. 61 – Day 1a – Stop at the top of page 31

Day 1b – 3) What do you remember about Meg from the second story?

• p. 65 – Day 4b answer – I am much faster than you, Grover. I can run…
• p. 70 – Day 4c 1st answer – her (not she)
• p. 83 – Day 4d answer

Just add -ed/-ing – glowed, called, stamped, going, frowned, leaned, looked
Drop silent e and add -ed/-ing – coming
Double the consonant and add -ed/-ing – hopped

• p. 104 – Day 2e Ask your student to circle all these words. samples, needles, castle, mule
• Corrected Appendix click here

Student

• p. 77 – Day 3b – add cut line between periods, questions marks, and exclamation marks
• p. 107 – Day 1a – …stop at the end of page 31
• p. 148 – Day 3d – Should be Pronoun not Phonics Word Box
• p. 181 – Day 2e – Look at the passage in 1c again.

Yellow Book
Teacher

• p. 2 – Day 1b – There are three commas (,) in this passage.
• p. 5 – Day 4c Answers – 5) A big cat is sitting in the yard.
• p. 144 literature passage – Cheshire
• Corrected Appendix click here

Student

• P. 2 – (passage) That wood was full of rabbit holes. In the neatest, sandiest hole of all lived Benjamin’s aunt and his cousins Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter…
• p. 182 literature passage – Cheshire

Orange Book
Teacher

• p. 175 discussion question 8 – “The Lightning Rod”; answer 8 – lightning

Student

• p. 20 – 5e – smoky mountains
• p. 21 – dictation passage, last line – the word here should be bold
• p. 150 – dictation passage – add beginning quotation marks
• p. 183 – Day 1h – …found in Day 1c…
• p. 183 – Day 1h – 1. reefrcdik oldgsuas
• p.  198 – 8. “The Lightning Rod”

Purple Book
Teacher

• p. 5 – Day 3a – Can you find the word…
• P. 17 – Day 4a – Reread the excerpt in Lesson 1, 4a
• P. 22 – Day 5a, third stanza, second line – And ring from all the trees,
• p. 49 – Review Activities 4 answers – d. mopping
• p. 132 – Day 1b answers – spacious skies, amber waves of grain, fruited plain
• p. 202 – Day 2b answers – bubbles should cover:

1. Dovey and Dan
2. Essie and Zephy
3. Sam and Shoestring
4. Music and laughter
5. Buzz and Dan

• p. 245 – Day 2a – quote “I am wishing we had a tanner…

Student

• p. 6 – Day 3i – 3) Ron and Sandy raced to the corner.
• p. 19 – Day 4a – …Lesson 1, 4a.
• p. 164 – Day 1b – Find the adjectives that describe these nouns… skies, waves of grain, plain
• p. 243 – Day 1 c – words: juice, barrel, poured, flies, pickle, nickel.
• p. 300 – Day 2a – quote “I am wishing we had a tanner…

Tan Book
Teacher

• p. 70 – Review Activities – 2a Ex. – delete word free, delete word free from 2 answers.

Student

• p. 174 – Day 2d – Find three books from that section and list the book’s name, author, and Dewey Decimal Classification number.

Green Book
Teacher

• p. 4 – Add Teacher’s Note – Easy-reading books are read-aloud books with simple sentences for non- or beginning readers.
• p. 102 – Day 4 answers – 8) line should connect brother to gave in diagram

Student

• p. 1 – dictation passage

Squire Gordon’s Park skirted the village of Birtwick. It was entered by a large iron gate, at which stood the first lodge. Then you trotted along on a smooth road between clumps of large old trees, then another lodge…

World Literature Corrections

p. 25 1b  the syllable pattern should be 5, 7, 5, 7, 7
p. 43  1c  (last sentence) How does this technique affect the story?
p. 127  2c  (second line from bottom) That morTAl tongue
p. 208 1k  Find the South African province Natal, Ixopo, Carisbrooke, and Johannesburg on a map.

Anthology notations

p. 15  4g  …A World Literature Anthology, 4g
p. 165 1h …A World Literature Anthology, 1h
p. 168 3f  …A World Literature  Anthology, 3f
p. 177 1h  …A World Literature  Anthology, 1h

Spelling corrections

watching Hollywood’s versions      p. 5  4a
“All my worldly possessions…          p. 10 4e
Bhagavad                                                      p.  55 5d, p. 247 5c
Pyrenees                                                       p. 77  1d
laisses                                                            p. 82  2n, p. 85  3i
Roncesvalles                                              p. 90 4p
imprisoned?                                                p. 176  1e
Mephistopheles                                        p. 272  2e (second column)