Transitional Readers: Anyone familiar with this series?

[Lina]

Hi all,

I just found a couple of books on Amazon: Homer: a transitional reader and Plato: a transitional reader.

It looks like the books might provide some useful background knowledge and vocabulary building for these authors. There are no reviews on Amazon yet. Has anyone here purchased these books? If so, what do you think?

[edmondsr]

Lina,

I have worked through much of the Plato book and have generally found it useful. Essentially what they do is take a passage, simplify its syntax (ie changing participles to finite verbs, changes to the word order..etc) for the first reading and then slowly add those elements back into the passage over the course of three or so readings.

As for vocabulary, all they really do is give a list of words neded for the present passage. In addition they also feature some grammatical explanations that are particularly relevent to the present passage.

Overall, I was happy with the book, although I do still find Plato rather difficult. I have not used the Homer book.

Anything else you would like to know about it, let me know...