The Stories of Robin Hood (ESL/EFL Version)

This book is Volume III-7 of the series of readers of Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP). It is suitable for readers with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a project in which ESL/EFL learners at elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach upper-intermediate level (with a vocabulary of about 3,500 words). This project contains about 40 simplified readers, enough for an ESL/EFL learner to read for two years, and this list is growing.

[Text Information]
Readability || 86.4
Total word count || 19258
Words beyond 1500 || 1046
Headwords beyond 1500 || 329
Unknown word percentage (%) || 5.43
Unknown headword percentage (%) || 1.71
Unknown headword occurrence || 3.18
Unknown words that occur 5 times or more || 53
Unknown words that occur 2 times or more || 163

[Synopsis]
Robin Hood is a hero of English folk tales. He is believed to have lived in Nottinghamshire about 700 years ago. He lost his home and ran away into the Sherwood Forest. There, he gathered together a band of merry men. He robbed the rich to help the poor.Robin Hood appears in songs, plays, games, novels, musicals, films, and TV series.
This book is rewritten from “Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children” by H. E. Marshall (1867– 1941), English author of children’s historical stories.