Secondary ELT Readers Starter Level - Level 1: The Golden Compass

Why choose Scholastic ELT Readers?

Themes & topics
The Scholastic range of titles reflects a relevant world that teenagers will instantly recognise.

• popular film and TV series such as Superman, Lost and The OC
• coming-of-age classics like Billy Elliot and Angela’s Ashes.
• real teenage issues and themes such as bullying and relationships
• classic literature with a new twist, tying in with recent films and TV series such as Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre
• a broad spread of titles acknowledges a range of tastes and interests

Innovative design
Created specifically for young readers, titles are designed to attract your students to reading

• inspiring full-colour graphics
• images that tie in with the film or TV series
• creative formats: blogs, manga stories and comic strips
• straightforward navigation
• clearly indicated levels with a distinctive colour scheme

People & Places
Every reader explores the characters and places in each story

• accessible, full colour spread to introduce each story
• visually stimulating introductions to key characters and locations

Fact Files
At the back of each reader is an easy to read, magazine-style Fact File section, including…

• interviews
• behind-the-scenes features
• UK/US culture & theme exploration
• opportunities for individual study or as a class
• Activities, audio and extra resources

Full student and teacher support is included:

• self-study comprehension activities for before and after each section
• free online teacher’s resource sheets with further activities, teaching suggestions and follow-up project work
• spoken-word audio for the majority of titles

Download free teacher’s resource sheets for every title at www.scholasticeltreaders.com

STARTER LEVEL

Beginner – 1 year of English
CEF stage: pre-A1
300 headwords (story: up to 1,500 words)

Sample language for Starter Level Readers includes:

• present simple, present continuous, present continuous for future use,
• simple adverbs of frequency, Let’s …

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LEVEL 1

Elementary – 1-2 years of English
CEF stage: A1
600 headwords (story: up to 4,000 words)

Sample language for Level 1 Readers includes:

• past simple & common irregular pasts, going to future, regular
• comparatives & superlatives, would like + noun

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LEVEL 2

Pre-Intermediate/Intermediate – 2-3 years of English
CEF stage: A2
1,000 headwords (story: up to 7,000 words)

Sample language for Level 2 Readers includes:

• present perfect, will future, past continuous, zero conditional,
• defining relative clauses not embedded, reflexive pronouns
  

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LEVEL 3

Intermediate – 3+ years of English
CEF stage: B2
1,500 headwords (story: up to 10,000 words)

Sample language for Level 3 Readers includes:

• present perfect continuous, past perfect, first and second conditional,
• present simple & past simple passive, simple indirect speech

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