- Follow PARSNIP1 educational publishing guidelines making them also suitable for younger learners, schools, and institutions
- Follow established extensive reading concepts with around 98% of language within level headword ceilings (for more about extensive reading, see Extensive Reading Foundation website)
- Contain large amounts of dialog for ease of comprehension
- Often grouped in multi-reader series enabling learners to enjoy longer stories about the same characters in similar settings (and save time choosing new readers)
- Recycled language within readers (and reader series) giving learners multiple exposures to the same language in different contexts
- Additional limited exposure to high-frequency language for managing conversations (eg. by the way, actually) and idiomatic items often used in conversations (eg. give up, look forward to)
- Appendices include short key language glossaries, key language quizzes, and post-reading discussion questions
1 No references to politics, alcohol, religion, sex, narcotics, ~isms (e.g. communism) and pork