English level guide · CEFR A1
Reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a Beginner (A1) learner
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland sits at the upper edge of A1 (Beginner): an ambitious but achievable stretch, with tap-to-define support to carry you over the harder vocabulary.
Updated June 2026
How Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reads at A1
Read it in shorter sittings and lean on the read-along audio: hearing each sentence as you see it keeps you moving when the vocabulary gets dense, and you can tap any unfamiliar word for a definition graded to A1. Watch especially for past simple verbs as the story is told (fell, ran, said).
At a glance
What A1 readers can do
- Understand familiar everyday words and very basic phrases.
- Follow very short, simple texts one phrase at a time.
- Recognise names, words and simple sentences in a short story.