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Beliavsky wrote: Can anyone recommend a set of reading lists arranged by difficulty (grade level). Googling lead me to http://www.hplibrary.org/kids/bookli...evellists.html which seems ok. Speak to the Children's Services Librarian at your library. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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"Jeff" wrote in message news:9b39i.7932$V01.6921@trnddc02... bizby40 wrote: "Jeff" wrote in message news:_iZ8i.4909$554.1090@trnddc07... bizby40 wrote: "Jeff" wrote in message news:9rY8i.4905$554.1812@trnddc07... Ericka Kammerer wrote: So you have to take the grade levels with a grain of salt, too. But assuming that these were American grade levels, "Harry Potter and the Philsopher's Stone" might well be considered to be a slightly higher grade level book because it has more unfamiliar words. That would be like 1 in 10,000 words changed, all from philosopher's to socerer's or the other way around. So I don't think so. I don't remember which book had the higher level. It was off by about 1/2 a grade or so, too much for one word change to explain it, but not all that much. But I thought in a thread on here a while back, people were discussing the other changes -- sweater for jumper and so on. Someone even posted a list of all the changes, right? So it wouldn't be just one word, it would several places in the book where an American child was encountering words they don't come across normally. I found the list (the URL is elsewhere in the thread). There were about 75 words that were changed. According to the publisher, there were about 75,000 words in the first Harry Potter. So that is one word or phrase in one thousand (plus they also took out the sort of Dean Thomas in the English edition). American kids learning 75 new words or phrases? Excellent. Plus, it also gives a British air to the book. The author said she regretted allowing the name change. JKR owns the copyright, so I guess she could tell Scholastic that they have to change the title back to the original (there's probably contracts involved - it would also be complicated with the movies, too). That would increase the value of my copy and all the copies with the old title. Hey, it might even be worth $10. My youngest is a big fan of the books, and insists on getting them the day they come out. Since we tend to travel in the summer, sometimes that can be a challenge. A few years back, (the book before the last one) we were in Sorrento when they came out. The books available in English were, of course, the British version. My daughter thought it was very cool to compare her book to that of her friends when we got home a few weeks later. She found there was the occasional descriptive passage that was tersely translated in the American version. Enough that her book was 10 or so pages longer than the American version. Which suited her, as they were counting up pages for summer reading, and it gave her an edge. |
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reading lists
On Jun 4, 9:57 am, Beliavsky wrote:
Can anyone recommend a set of reading lists arranged by difficulty (grade level). Googling lead me tohttp://www.hplibrary.org/kids/booklists/gradelevel/gradelevellists.html which seems ok. if you have a waldon's book store near you, they have childrens books arranged in grade leave and age appropriate levels. and thye have tons of books for all ages. and if you dont you you could always try amazon.com. i can always find something there. |
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