Leveled Readings / Commissioner Lin: Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
Leveled reading · key passage
Commissioner Lin: Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
Commissioner Lin Zexu, letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“We have heard that in your own country opium is prohibited with the utmost strictness and severity…”
Adapted · about grade 4
We heard that in your own country, opium is strictly against the law.
Adapted · about grade 7
We have heard that in your own country opium is banned very strictly and harshly.
Adapted · about grade 10
We have heard that in your own country opium is prohibited with the utmost strictness and severity.