How long does it take to read Easy Reading Selections In English?
Easy Reading Selections In English by Robert J. Dixson takes about 2 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 11 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1948. 119 pages, about 32,725 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of adapted and simplified classic short stories. Authors such as Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, and O. Henry are included. FOREWORD This book will provide easy reading selections for students on the intermediate level of learning English. The selections are simplified versions of well-known stories by classic authors, and should offer no difficulty to those who have completed the elementary phases in the study of English. The book can be used in the second six months of study, or as a general reader in the second year course, depending, naturally, on the degree of advancement of the student or class. For students not sufficiently advanced, the following texts by the author are recommended as preparation for this book: "Beginning Lessons in English," and "Exercises in English Conversation." The text entitled "Graded Exercises in English" may also be used as a general grammar supplement to this book. In any case, the stories here presented should not be attempted until the student is adequately prepared. Otherwise, studying the text becomes a tedious exercise in translation, rather than the pleasure that is experienced in reading what is readily understood. Exercises follow each selection in the form of questions. The answers which these questions evoke provide excellent conversation material for the student. For further suggestions as to the use of these exercises for conversational purposes, see the foreword to the text "Exercises in English Conversation." The question exercises in this text follow the same general plan as those used in the conversation book, and should be used with the same objectives in view. This book, in effect, may be considered as a second conversation book as well as a reader, to be used upon completion of the elementary conversation book. In general, the questions should be supplemented wherever possible by questions of a similar nature or theme. The questions should be altered to suit the particular class situation…
Subjects: English grammar, easy English text selections
