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Books Level 1

Procedures

  • Action Engaging/Thrilling plot, suspense. Closed and rewarding endings.
  • Chronology Linear, but also sometimes shifts that stimulate suspense.
  • Storyline(s) Clear storyline; several storylines are possible, if transparent and if contributing to the tension of the narrative.
  • Perspective Preferably constant: first person narrative or third person narrative.
  • Meaning Youth experiences. Familiar life experiences. Fantastic worlds. Simple appealing themes for teenagers. Univocal meanings.

Style

  • Vocabulary Simple and familiar. Current, contemporary, mainly everyday language.
  • Sentence construction Simple and clear.
  • Stylistic Concrete and direct, vivid language (many dialogues, direct humour). Evocative language, transparent or conventional imagery.

Characters

  • Character Close to the reader’s age and preoccupations. Engagement is important. Definite/predictable, appealing characters.
  • Number Few characters. Bigger numbers can be coped with as long as a few main figures offer an orientation for the reader.
  • Relations Explicit, non-ambiguous, clearly marked.
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Book list Level 1

Author Title Year Book Scan Translations
Keller, Gottfried Clothes Make The Man 1874   Translations
Creangă, Ion Memories of my Boyhood 1881   Translations
Ispirescu, Petre Romanian Legends and Folktales 1882   Translations
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902    
Steinbeck, John The Red Pony 1933    
Petrescu, Cezar Fram, the Polar Bear 1958   Translations
Townsend, Sue The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 1982    
Pausewang, Gudrun The Last Children of Schewenborn 1983   Translations
Timm, Uwe The Invention of Curried Sausage 1993   Translations
Rowling, Joanne K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 1997    
Sachar, Louis Holes 1998    
Blyton, Enid The Mystery of the Missing Necklace 2001   Translations
Horowitz, Anthony Horowitz Horror 2009   Translations
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Level matrix

You will find here 4 or 6 levels of literary development in secondary education. At each level you will find a typology and a list of suitable books, a typology of the student as a reader and an inventory of appropriate classroom activities (‘transitions’), that help students to ‘LIFT’ their literary competence to a higher level.

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