初級日本語よみもの げんき多読ブックス [Box 1] GENKI Japanese Readers Box 1

Additional reading practice for textbook

This is a box set of 12 slim volumes that match up to the Genki textbook chapters 1-6. There's two booklets per chapter. They're very similar to other graded readers except the vocabulary and grammar is tightly controlled to match up to the textbook chapters. The whole Genki graded reader series looks like it follows the same pattern. This also makes them wonky to grade as booklet #1-1 is not the same difficultly as #6-2.

I'm working through the similar Tobira: Beginning Japanese textbook and found these in a library so decided to try and see if Genki was comparable (having never studied the Genki textbook). It's so close that I only went for a dictionary less than a handful of times. That said, they didn't really add much more than a few lines of reading practice beyond what is already the textbooks (Genki or Tobira). The stories were short, fast reads and not engaging, likely because at this level there's not much to work with.