All Levels My Journey Becoming a Graded Reader Writer more

This talk is for people thinking about writing or self-publishing graded readers. It will reflect on my experiences writing over 25 published graded readers. The talk will start by outlining my teaching context and experience running extensive reading programs for over ten years at a Japanese university. It will then cover how the reading challenges some of my learners were facing motivated me to write graded readers. The talk will then outline how I became a published graded reader author and then later an independent publisher of graded readers. Later, the talk will reflect on the challenges of writing material for lower-proficiency-level young adult readers. It will also look at tools and platforms useful for starting out in self-publishing including editing and grading text, cover design and audio, getting ISBNs, and publishing print and eBooks on different platforms.