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Old Mar 31st, 2007, 01:51 am
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HI Chris, Most of my published readers are aimed at teenagers - some comedy, some adventure, some romance. There tends to be a greater need for lower level material. For example, Richmond Readers started with levels, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then teachers complained that the level 1 books were too difficult so we were asked to write 'starter level' books, using no past tense and very simple structures. That wasn't as tough as writing a 140 word story with just a 40 word vocabulary - which I recently did for Harcourt in the UK.
Have a look at www.jeremytaylor.eu if you want to see the books and download some stories. I'll be putting more up later today.
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Old May 28th, 2007, 02:06 am
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While I certainly believe that reading is a great way to learn a language, I find the cost of readers to be prohibitive. I teach at a college in China and there's no way that we could purchase classroom sets or anything like that. I can't even make copies of stuff. I'm interested in seeing what you have on your website, though. Maybe I can suggest that my students read some of it instead of playing video games the next time they're in the internet cafe.

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