Our Books
I love to write graded mini books in Japanese that are easy to read for beginners using high frequency vocabulary that is reused and recycled across the series to maximise exposure and build reading confidence and fluency.
Students acquire language they hear and read.
Books in the JapanEasyReads series focus on the highest frequency verbs and provide repetition of structures which are used orally first then the language is reinforced through reading.
The texts use known language that the students hear and use in the classroom concentrating heavily on the Super 7 verbs and Question words. The focus is on reading for meaning rather than decoding characters to make meaning.
The mini readers are available in two editions:
- Scaffolded-with proper nouns in English
- Extension-full use of script (Hiragana and Kanji)
Each book includes
- a full glossary of all vocabulary
- graded comprehension checks
- scaffolded sentence starters
- oral task