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The purposes of the present study were to review objective data about vocabularies contained in graded readers for primary school students through corpus-based analysis, and to examine the relation between vocabularies in graded readers and those in primary school English textbooks. In this study, a selection of total of 78 books was used to analyze the vocabularies by using WordSmith Tools 5.0. Moreover this study conducted a survey in a primary school by having 5th grade students in a class read seven graded readers for one week. The result of this study was as follows; The graded readers contained more diversity in vocabulary than primary school English textbooks and students in a class had different levels in their English abilities. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect both the vocabulary level of reading materials and the level of students when teachers select a reading material to improve their students’ English ability effectively. (Chung-Ang University)