Aspects of literacy development (alphabet, phonics, decoding/comprehension, vocabulary/background knowledge, fluency, maybe other stuff)
- Alphabet
- Phonics and phonemic awareness
- Comprehension
- Fluency
- Background knowledge
Different manga magazines and their age demographics → different levels of furigana inclusion (from frequent to fewer to minimal to none)
- The spreadsheet I made at Chatswood library
Tadoku (多読, or ‘many reading’) and the Japan Foundation (JPF) Library
- JPF Tadoku https://sydney.jpf.go.jp/library/tadoku-reading-nights/
- Free Tadoku eBooks https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/
- Youtube playlist of readaloud tadoku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDh7EBif7hI&list=PLECwrojQZ1wctD5oeb1AlLwxZckBmOEiY
Japan Foundation (in Ultimo, opposite UTS) hosts live Tadoku evenings on fortnightly Thursdays https://sydney.jpf.go.jp/library/tadoku-reading-nights/. There are also links to graded readers on the library catalogue, as well as links to other websites where tadoku books can be read from home.
Youtube playlist (113 videos) of tadoku readaloud books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDh7EBif7hI&list=PLECwrojQZ1wctD5oeb1AlLwxZckBmOEiY, uploaded by NPO多言語多読 (’NPO multilingual extensive reading’), the same organisation that created the Tadoku.org website
Free online Tadoku eBooks can be found on https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/. Each eBook seems to be published under a creative commons licence (great for educators), and their respective PDFs can be downloaded too. Some titles have features such as voiceovers and videos available too.
NHK News Web Easy https://news.web.nhk/news/easy/
