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Historical documents — Teachers’ and Writers’ Guides

We present here the ERF archive of graded reader guides for teachers and writers. Much of the information here comes from Philip Prowse, the author of many graded readers and the past editor of the Cambridge English Reader series.  The contributions here are ordered by publisher and chronologically within it.

Cambridge

• Cambridge ELT Readers Project — Wordlist Database Report (1994) by David Eastment
• Cambridge English Readers — Teacher’s Guide (1999) — by Philip Prowse
• Cambridge English Readers — Word list (2001)
• Cambridge English Readers — Writer’s Guide -MSW Version (2001)
• Cambridge English Readers — Writer’s Guide – Printed Version (2001)
• Extensive Reading in ELT: Why and How? (2018)

Collins English Library

• Guide for Writers

Compass

• Extensive Reading and Graded Readers (2013) by P. Nation and R. Waring

Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading (EPER)

• Guide to Organising Programmes of Extensive Reading (1992) by David R Hill

Heinemann

• Heinemann Guided Readers Handbook (1977) by John Milne
• Heinemann Guided Readers Guide for Authors (1991)
• A Guide for Intending Writers at the Intermediate Level — Original Books (1992?)
• A Guide for Intending Writers at the Starter Level (1993)
• A Guide for Intending Writers at the Beginning Level  (1993)
• A Guide for Intending Writers at the Elementary Level (1993)
• A Guide for Intending Writers of Original Stories at the Intermediate Level (1993)
• A Guide for Intending Writers of Retold Stories at the Intermediate Level  (1993)
• A Guide to the Structural Grading of Heinemann Guided Readers (1 page chart)
• Using Graded Readers in the Classroom (1993)

Longman

• Handbook to Longmans’ Structural Readers (1968)
• Longman Structural Readers Handbook (1987)
• The Longman Guide to Graded Reading (1992)

Macmillan

• Macmillan Guided Readers Language Scheme (2002)
• New Wave Readers –  guide for authors, Starter Level
• Using Graded Readers in the Classroom (2014)
• Using Graded Readers in the Classroom (Japanese version)

Nelson

• Nelson Readers Catalogue (1990)

Oxford University Press (Japan)

The ‘Why” and “How” of using Graded Readers (2000)  English Japanese

Graded Reader Programs – The Experience of School and University Teachers in Japan  English Japanese

Penguin (Pearson)

• Simply Stories —  (1992)
  includes notes to writers/adapters, syllabus and word lists 1-5
• Penguin Young Readers Teacher’s Guide to Using Stories in Class (2000)
• Penguin Young Readers Teacher’s Guide to Dramatising Stories (2001)
• Teacher’s Guide to Using Graded Readers (2000)
• Teacher’s Guide to Using Film and TV (1999)
• Teacher’s Guide to Using Bestsellers (2001)