Using Graded Readers with English Code Starter: GSE 10 - 17 | CEFR <A1

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome! Birthday Mud Music time! At the farm My A picnic Under the Let’s
fun! kitchen dinosaur sea pretend!

MAIN greetings / birthday lunch / music / farm / dinosaurs picnic / sea / sea fancy dress
THEMES numbers/ / colour / kitchen instrument / animals / giving instructions animals / / pirates /
age rainbows sound / food / support / quantities weather feelings
instruction

READERS Rainbow Goldilocks Making Family Island Rory Wants Disney Disney PIXAR Disney
Bird and the Music Adventure a Pet Frozen: Finding Cinderella
Three Bears Olaf Likes Nemo: Nemo
Summer in School

English British British British or American British American American American

American

LEVEL 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

GSE 16-27 20-34 16-27 16-27 16-27 16-27 16-27 16-27

LEXILE 250 160 170 150 180 240 170 260

TOPICS animals / breakfast/ music/ dance friendship dinosaurs summer/ new friends / clothes /
colours / be food/ family / / sounds / / animals/ / family / beach / introductions feelings /
and yourself respect numbers / colours / food feelings / time lunch/ / starting describing
THEMES body / feelings / patience curiosity school people /
/ numbers objects
/ sizes /
transport
Using Graded Readers with English Code Level 1: GSE 10 - 17 | CEFR <A1

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome! Let’s play! Art club! Families Puppet The Fruit Let’s get Let’s
show! perfect pet bowl! active dress up

MAIN colours / toys / art / colours family / body / pet / fruit / like & hobby / clothes /
THEMES numbers / transport / how many? introductions / descriptions / descriptions / don’t like, / time of day position /
making friends / polite shapes the senses can & can’t fruit life cycle / questions weather
questions about hobbies
& activities

READERS Wheels Let’s Draw Where Disney Disney PIXAR Katie Grows Winston Clothes
Go Round Shapes I Live Dumbo Coco: a Bean Plant the Wizard at Work
The Story
of Dante

English British or British British or American American British or American British or

American American American American

LEVEL 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2

GSE 16-27 22-32 16-27 16-27 16-27 16-27 16-27 22-32

LEXILE 220 430 250 250 210 280 230 440

TOPICS atransport using shapes animals / body / family friendship / where does animals / clothes / jobs
/ colours/ in art family / food / confidence pets / food food come colours /
and shapes/ / friendship/ / descibing / health / from / plants numbers
THEMES sounds places/ home appearance positivity / / nature / magic /
/ school / countable perseverence
time nouns
Using Graded Readers with English Code Level 2: GSE 20 - 30 | CEFR A1

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome! Out and Day Lost At the Come Sports Our Our
about! and night and found gallery in! day home! world

MAIN talk about out and animal words description of descriptions food / polite sport / house words nature /
THEMES myself / about / town / daily routine objects of people and questions activity / and words for directions /
months and words / like / space feelings measurements activitities in instructions
seasons & don’t like / the house
descriptions

READERS Town Mouse The Three Billy Disney The Disney The Thumbelina Disney PIXAR Disney PIXAR Pirate Patch
and Country Goats Gruff Little Mermaid: Jungle Book: Monsters Toy Story and the
Mouse Ariel and the Mowgli Meets University Treasure Map
Prince Baloo

English American British American American American British or American American

American

LEVEL 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2

GSE 20-34 20-34 22-32 22-32 22-32 22-32 22-32 22-32

LEXILE 290 310 310 440 430 480 450 440

TOPICS town / animals feelings / feelings / adventure sports / birthday / teamwork /

country / / food / dreams / friendship / animals / teamwork friendship directions
and places / food numbers weather / / jungle / body / family / house /
THEMES / frienship / / courage identifying animals / feelings / bedroom
tolerence / / problem your things kindness /
differences solving nature / size
Using Graded Readers with English Code Level 3: GSE 25 - 35 | CEFR A1 to A2

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome Show time! Frozen Celebrations! Blast off! Holiday Let’s Eco Let’s
time! shop! warriors! work!

MAIN school / action / weather / celebrations space words / holiday / beach shopping / environment / jobs / like
THEMES subjects / describing animals / and festivals, talking about / talking about amounts / talking about & don’t like
places / rules actions describing describing the past the past using design the future / / giving an
weather / events, giving did decomposition opinion
talking about an opinion
the past

READERS Sport with Disney Festival Space Island Disney PIXAR Disney 101 Shaun the Disney PIXAR
Trainer Tim Frozen II Fun Adventure Coco Dalmatians Sheep - Save Incredibles 2
the Tree

English British or American British or American American American British American

American American

LEVEL 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4

GSE 25-35 25-35 25-35 25-35 22-32 25-35 25-35 27-38

LEXILE 460 520 410 410 510 520 500 520

TOPICS sports / the past space / space / family / animals / protect the family /
teamwork / nature / friendship / friendship / friendship friendship / environment different jobs
and weather/ adventure / adventure / / music/ love / family / hard work
THEMES resilience teamwork teamwork the past / / describing
festivals / amounts
talking about
the past
Using Graded Readers with English Code Level 4: GSE 31 - 40 | CEFR A2 to A2+

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome Into the Into the Up into Dragons Endangered Join in! Mavellous Theme
back! wild past space animals medicines parks

MAIN hollidays outdoor activity describing life describing describing a animal and club activity / illness / theme park /
THEMES / family / / future plans / in the past / space and the dragon / talking habitat / using talking about medicine comparing past
using dates / work together comparing past future about activities more and fewer rules using and present
birthdays and present in the past / should / make / expressing
flying machines new friends feelings /
motion of force

READERS The Swiss Disney Space Island Up in Animal Disney PIXAR Pollyanna Movie Studio
Family Moana Adventure the Air Athletes Inside Out Island
Robinson Adventure

English American American American British or British or American American American

American American

LEVEL 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4

GSE 37-53 27-38 25-35 25-35 27-38 27-38 27-38 27-38

LEXILE 510 460 410 570 600 520 480 510

TOPICS family / work importance space / different air animals / family / kindness movie making
/ outdoor of balance problem travel habitats feelings / / positivity / friendship /
and activities in nature solving / change / / illness / adventure
THEMES / working / family / helping friendship recovery
together volcanos friends
Using Graded Readers with English Code Level 5: GSE 37 - 45 | CEFR A2+ to B1

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome Time for Landscapes Hanging Movie Once in a Codes and What shall Our digital
school! of China out magic lifetime clues we eat? world

MAIN neighbourhood school and landscapes / leisure movies and travel possessions food and technology
THEMES education / water cycle activities / movie making experiences / codes & cooking
light math / sharing / animals ciphers
around the
world

READERS Harry’s Island A Christmas Disney Gulliver’s Brain Gym Disney PIXAR Disney Big
Clothes Hopping Carol Alice in Travels Ratatouille Hero 6
Project Wonderland

English British or British or British American British British or American American

American American American

LEVEL 5 5 4 5 5 4 5 5

GSE 30-40 30-40 37-53 30-40 30-40 27-38 30-40 30-40

LEXILE 590 630 520 510 480 430 530 520

TOPICS school different celebrations / fight for travel understanding cooking / food overcoming
project on islands / family / food what’s right / experience how your body / food waste grief /
and clothes for landscapes / friendship food health / & brain works / expressing technology /
THEMES different and cultures / kindness movie making feeling about sustainable
places and / sharing / things cities / making
times generosity predictions
about the
future
Using Graded Readers with English Code Level 6: GSE 41 - 50 | CEFR A2+ to -B1

UNIT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

TITLE Welcome In the news Inspirational Let’s earn Food for The ancient On the I hate it My amazing
people money! the future! world move! when… city

MAIN school time social media inspirational money / food and ancient Egypt / airport words challenging town and city /
THEMES table and news / fact people / people spending and farming words history / look after our situations water features
checking and their jobs / earning / profit / sustainable world / challenge
value yourself and loss food / food yourself
chains

Disney Ralph A Land of Wallace and Disney Disney PIXAR Our Changing Future Island A World of
READERS Breaks the New Hope Gromit: a Zootopia Onward Planet Adventure Homes
Internet Matter of
Loaf and
Death

English American British or British American American British or American British or

American American American

LEVEL 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 6

GSE 36-48 30-40 36-48 36-48 36-48 36-48 36-48 36-48

LEXILE 580 580 560 580 600 840 600 600

TOPICS friendship / the past / friendship Animals past times / environment protecting different
technology immigration / jobs / / cities / family / grief / animals your home homes
and / online / lives of business discirimation / travel / road / habitats / protecting around the
THEMES communities emigrants / / greed / / bullying / trip / old / food / nature / world
/ computer jobs dishonesty food chains buildings / technology family history
viruses conservation/
/ online past events
security
Types of reading

Teacher/ Read-alouds: The teacher reads aloud to the students

Parent The teacher chooses a book, gathers the class around her, and reads aloud to the students.
She models fluent reading
The students look at the illustrations as they listen to the story, and speak to ask and answer
questions about the story, and discuss with the class

Shared reading: The teacher shares the reading with the students
The teacher reads aloud while tracking the words of the story with a finger or a pointer. He
encourages the students to join in reading or repeating words, phrases, and direct speech in
the story and modeling fluent reading
The students follow the text as they listen to the story, and may read along, chorusing with the
teacher. Together, they share the reading

Guided reading: the teacher guides the students as they read aloud
The teacher works on reading skills with a small group of students at the same level
The students each have a copy of the book. They practice reading the story quietly to themselves.
The teacher listens to each student in turn and helps them build specific reading skills according
to their needs

Buddy reading: the students read together in pairs

The teacher puts the students into pairs; typically a stronger reader with a weaker reader
The students help each other to reread a text in pairs

Independent reading: the students read silently to themselves

The teacher helps each student to choose a book at the right level for their ability. She motivates
and monitors progress through reading records
The students typically take their selected books home to read outside of class
Student