All levels Materials, Libraries and Listening Workshop
Graded readers for every kind of student and purpose: An introduction
This workshop session will introduce the participants to the world of graded readers. We will see and experience graded readers at various levels of difficulty from those which use less to 100 unique words to tell their story to ones with over 3000 unique words ('headwords'). We will discuss both paper-based and digitally-based material. While fictional graded readers are the most common, there is now an abundance of non-fiction readers on topics such as biographies, science and technology, the environment, and geography. Mention will also be made concerning "youth readers" -- books written with native-speaking children as their target audience, but which can be prudently used.
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Thomas Robb, Ph.D., University of Hawaii, is Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Sangyo University. He is a long-time user of CALL and the Internet and has created a number of websites and applications for Extensive Reading, student projects, interactive learning, and professional exchange. He is Chair of the Extensive Reading Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of TESL-EJ;org. He has recently been working on the production of simplified texts for online reading.