About These Materials


Reading & listening materials for young learners at beginner to elementary levels.

English Language Levels

Text & audio graded by vocabulary, grammar and readability. Audio grading also considers speed & clarity of delivery, contextual noise etc
  • Beginners   (CEF) A1 ERF Graded Reader Scale Beginner
  • Elementary  A1/2 ERF Graded Reader Scale Elementary (Early/Mid)
  • Pre-Intermediate A2/B1 ERF Graded Reader Scale Elementary (High) Inter (Early)
Common European Framework * Cambridge Online Assessment * Graded Reading Scale

The Editor

I write graded reading and listening materials for English language learners. These include original stories like Love by Design and simplified versions of classics including Washington Square by Henry James & Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

My books have been published most of the major publishers in the field including Oxford University Press (OUP), OUP (Hong Kong), Longman, Macmillan and Penguin. You can see a partial list here.

Three of my titles were singled out for their ‘particular excellence’ in Bamford & Day’s Extensive Reading in the Second Language Classroom (CUP) where I was described as being ‘amongst the best writers of language learner materials in English’.
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