Trouble at Sea – Thomson Foundations Readers (Stage 1)

About the Series / Levels

The Thomson Foundations Readers comprise an exciting new series of graded readers written specially to meet the needs of younger learners beginning to read in English. The carefully crafted, age-appropriate stories revolve around a group of teenage characters living in a small US town, and the adventures they have.

Within the Thomson Foundations Readers, the vocabulary and grammar are carefully selected and presented in context, and recycled throughout the readers and corresponding support materials.

– Graded at six levels, with several readers per level, ranging from 75 to 300 headwords.

– Adventure, drama, and detective stories – all of which deal with issues and topics that teens want to read about.

– Illustrated in full color which, combined with carefully controlled language, enables beginning learners to read successfully and confidently.

– Practice, extend, and recycle the most useful and frequent vocabulary, phrases and expressions that beginning learners need.

– Carefully-controlled grammar syllabus that covers the grammar most typically taught in the early years of learning English.

– Designed so that each Reader can be used for fluency and enjoyment.

Please note that the publisher (Thomson) has labeled this title as Stage 6. However, since it’s equivalent in level to other publishers’ Stage 1 titles (300 – 400 headwords), we have labeled it as Stage 1.