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Graded readers are "easy reading" books used to support the Extensive reading approach to teaching English as a second or foreign language, and other languages. While many graded readers are written for native speaker children, more often they are targeted at young adults and above, since children's books are already widely available and deal with topics not relevant to more mature language learners. Graded readers can be adapted from literary classics, films, biographies, travel books, etc., or they can be original works written at a less demanding language level. Although they employ simplified language, graded readers do not necessarily lack narrative depth or avoid complex themes; often, they cover the same range of 'serious' themes as books written for native speaker audiences. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://erfoundation.org/wordpress/?page_id=136 )〕 See, for example, ''Jo Jo's Story'' (Moses) about the making of a child soldier, and ''Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit'' (Corvidian) written for gay learners of English. Graded readers are written with specific levels of grammatical complexity in mind and with vocabulary that is limited by frequency headword counts. For example, Level 1 in a series might be restricted to 500 headwords, Level 2 to 600 headwords, and Level 3 to 700 headwords. Simple Wikipedia (Simple English Wikipedia ) is designed along similar lines. Graded readers are not to be confused with Basal readers, such as Dick and Jane, which tend to target specific language features, and therefore are more like textbooks in nature. ==Examples of Graded Reader Series〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://erfoundation.org/wordpress/ )〕 == * (Atama-ii Books ) * (Black Cat Readers ) * (Burlington Books ) * (Cambridge Readers ) * (Cengage - National Geographic ) * (Choose Your Own Adventure Graded Readers ) * (Easy Readers ) * (ELI Publications ) * (Helbling Young Readers ) * (Macmillan Guided Readers ) * (Oxford Bookworms ) * (Penguin Readers ) * (Read Listen Learn ) * (Richmond Readers ) * (Scholastic Readers ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graded reader」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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