Read the classics one step above your level
Ten short stories a volume, rewritten sentence by sentence at A2–B2.
- Ten stories
- Footnotes and glossary
- Bilingual summary
- Exercises with key
- Free audio and Anki
Start here
How comprehensible input works, and how to read in a language you are still learning.
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Learning through reading
Anki and Comprehensible Input: Incompatible?
Not incompatible — subordinate. Sentence cards from your own reading, ten new words a day, and review kept smaller than the reading.
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Building your own path
How to Choose the Right Texts for Comprehensible Input
The ninety-eight per cent rule, the five-finger test, and what to do when the only books at your level are written for children.
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Building your own path
A Complete Reading Method, Step by Step
The whole method in one place — five passes over a story, what to do with the words you keep, and a thirty-day programme to start from.
Why “plus one”
The name is Stephen Krashen’s i+1: you acquire a language by understanding input a little beyond your current level — not by decoding text far above it, and not by rereading what you already know. Everything in these books is designed to keep you at that plus one for as long as you keep reading. How the books are written →