Pearson English Graded Readers - Grading level

Pearson English Graded Readers are graded by:

• Structure (grammar)

• Number of headwords (a word placed at the beginning of a dictionary entry or a group of words which share the same basic meaning, for example: helps, helping, helpful, helpless)

• Vocabulary

• Sentence length

• Sentence complexity

• Number of words on a page

• Number of pages in a book

• Complexity of activities

• Number of hours of English completed by the reader

Learn more about the secondary grading levels used in Pearson English Readers and Pearson Active Readers.