Dragonfly Readers

Introducing Dragonfly Readers, a new 9-levelled graded reading series which promotes reading for pleasure and develops reading comprehension skills, while exploring Asian cultural themes and values featuring:

• 204 beautifully illustrated stories and non-fiction texts by Asian authors and artists
• Asian culture, theme and values infused in the series
• Culture and vocabulary pages, supplementary projects and activities

Dragonfly Readers offers a complete system to teach graded reading with comprehensive teacher support.

Developed for primary and secondary schools throughout Asia, Dragonfly Readers:

• encourages student engagement, using beautifully designed anthologies across a range of genres including real-life fiction, adventure stories, traditional tales and non-fiction
• teaches about Asian cultural topics and values with genuine stories created by Asian children’s book authors and illustrators
• features a systematic ‘levelled reading’ approach with incremental vocabulary coverage, careful language recycling and increasing text complexity
• includes discussion questions to facilitate value reflection and critical thinking development
• incorporates a structured phonics teaching approach and resources, providing support to build decoding skills
• offers clear transparency of learner progression, based on Oxford Levels and aligned to CEFR
• available in print and digitally in Oxford Reading Buddy, a new next-generation digital reading service available on any device—desktop, tablet or mobile