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.Easy Italian Reader: A Three-part Text for Beginners (Easy Reader Series)
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by: Riccarda Saggese

December 01, 2005
I am enjoying this book and finding it very helpful, but think it would be pretty scary for a complete beginner to start with. Often the reader is required to give opposites of words which are not in the text being studied, and often there are words which need to be understood in order to answer the questions, but there is no translation given. I think this is frustrating for the reader. Surely the point of a graded reader is that the student doesn't have to keep reaching for a dictionary, thus breaking the flow of the reading and learning? I am managing by ignoring the words I don't know in order to keep the flow going, as I imagine I'll pick them up at some other stage along the way. Good for very confident post-beginners or pre-intermediates ... Read More:
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.New Practical Chinese Reader: 1
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by: Liu Xun

November 01, 2002
I am enjoying this book and finding it very helpful, but think it would be pretty scary for a complete beginner to start with. Often the reader is required to give opposites of words which are not in the text being studied, and often there are words which need to be understood in order to answer the questions, but there is no translation given. I think this is frustrating for the reader. Surely the point of a graded reader is that the student doesn't have to keep reaching for a dictionary, thus breaking the flow of the reading and learning? I am managing by ignoring the words I don't know in order to keep the flow going, as I imagine I'll pick them up at some other stage along the way. Good for very confident post-beginners or pre-intermediates ... Read More:
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.Stories on Stage: Children's Plays for Reader's Theater (or Readers Theatre), With 15 Play Scripts From 15 Authors, Including Roald Dahl's The Twits and Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside School
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by: Aaron Shepard

May 09, 2005
I am enjoying this book and finding it very helpful, but think it would be pretty scary for a complete beginner to start with. Often the reader is required to give opposites of words which are not in the text being studied, and often there are words which need to be understood in order to answer the questions, but there is no translation given. I think this is frustrating for the reader. Surely the point of a graded reader is that the student doesn't have to keep reaching for a dictionary, thus breaking the flow of the reading and learning? I am managing by ignoring the words I don't know in order to keep the flow going, as I imagine I'll pick them up at some other stage along the way. Good for very confident post-beginners or pre-intermediates ... Read More:
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.The Heath Introduction to Fiction (English Literature College) (English Literature College)
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from: Houghton Mifflin (Academic)

November 29, 1999
I am enjoying this book and finding it very helpful, but think it would be pretty scary for a complete beginner to start with. Often the reader is required to give opposites of words which are not in the text being studied, and often there are words which need to be understood in order to answer the questions, but there is no translation given. I think this is frustrating for the reader. Surely the point of a graded reader is that the student doesn't have to keep reaching for a dictionary, thus breaking the flow of the reading and learning? I am managing by ignoring the words I don't know in order to keep the flow going, as I imagine I'll pick them up at some other stage along the way. Good for very confident post-beginners or pre-intermediates ... Read More:
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.A Loeb Classical Library Reader
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by: Loeb Classical Libra

March 03, 2006
I am enjoying this book and finding it very helpful, but think it would be pretty scary for a complete beginner to start with. Often the reader is required to give opposites of words which are not in the text being studied, and often there are words which need to be understood in order to answer the questions, but there is no translation given. I think this is frustrating for the reader. Surely the point of a graded reader is that the student doesn't have to keep reaching for a dictionary, thus breaking the flow of the reading and learning? I am managing by ignoring the words I don't know in order to keep the flow going, as I imagine I'll pick them up at some other stage along the way. Good for very confident post-beginners or pre-intermediates ... Read More:
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.Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature
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by: Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Sara Mills, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furniss

June 08, 2000
This is a text about texts. It is a metatext. This is not a biography or autobiography. Nor is it fiction or poetry. It is not a play or drama. It is a text designed to make you think about texts. Read this text and inculcate what it has to offer. You will never read a text in the same way again.
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.New Practical Chinese Reader Workbook: Bk.1
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by: Xun Liu

2002-03
This is a text about texts. It is a metatext. This is not a biography or autobiography. Nor is it fiction or poetry. It is not a play or drama. It is a text designed to make you think about texts. Read this text and inculcate what it has to offer. You will never read a text in the same way again.
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.Books I've Read (Journal)
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from: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

September 15, 2006
This is a text about texts. It is a metatext. This is not a biography or autobiography. Nor is it fiction or poetry. It is not a play or drama. It is a text designed to make you think about texts. Read this text and inculcate what it has to offer. You will never read a text in the same way again.
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.20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)
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by: Jules Verne

March 10, 2005
This is a text about texts. It is a metatext. This is not a biography or autobiography. Nor is it fiction or poetry. It is not a play or drama. It is a text designed to make you think about texts. Read this text and inculcate what it has to offer. You will never read a text in the same way again.
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.Classic Spanish Stories and Plays: Adapted for Intermediate Students (NTC's Spanish Readers)
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by: Marcel C. Andrade

September 01, 2001
This is a text about texts. It is a metatext. This is not a biography or autobiography. Nor is it fiction or poetry. It is not a play or drama. It is a text designed to make you think about texts. Read this text and inculcate what it has to offer. You will never read a text in the same way again.
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