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Reading
Resources for English Language Learners
Activities
Reading Skills
Electronic texts
Et cetera
Activities
Search for "reading
exercises" or "reading activities" at: DMOZ;
Google;
AltaVista;
Go.com
All levels
- ESL
Quiz Zone
- Comprehension quizzes
- ESL Independent
Study Lab: Reading 1
- A links collection
(similar to this page) organized by level (level 100, level
200); it's well annotated and includes some user reviews
- ESL Independent
Study Lab: Reading 2
- A links collection
(similar to this page) organized by level (level 300, level
400); it's well annotated and includes some user reviews
- English
Exercises Online
- Reading and vocabulary
activities
- Independent Study
Lab -- Reading
- Links to Reading
Activities at several levels
- TOEFL
Reading Comprehension
- example texts and
questions from ETS
- UVic Study Center:
Reading - Interactive reading with comprehension, summarizing,
and gap-filling activities; by level...
- 200
(BASIC)
- 330
(BASIC, INTERMEDIATE)
- 410
(INTERMEDIATE)
- 490
(INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED)
- 570 (ADVANCED)
Basic
- English
200 Reading Exercises
- Comprehension; story
re-creation; gap-filling
- Happy
New Years!
- By Dennis Oliver,
Dave's ESL Cafe
- Multimedia Language
Lab
- Reading
1 (Easy)
Intermediate
- English
330 Reading Exercises
- Comprehension; story
re-creation; gap-filling
- Fluency
through Fables
- Folk tales and reading
and vocabulary exercises
- Gallaudet
Reading exercises
- Interactive comprehension
questions on a series of essays about prominent deaf Americans
- Multimedia Language
Lab
- Reading
2 (Intermediate)
- Self-study Reading
Comprehension
- collected by Internet
TESL Journal
Advanced
- CNN
San Francisco (ADVANCED)
- Reading activities
based on current news stories; includes audio, story outline,
summary, and text as well as reading comprehension and vocabulary
activities.
- Multimedia Language
Lab
- Reading 3 (Advanced)
- Online
Reading Club
- A group or 30 readers
from around the world who read classics in English every 2 weeks
and send reviews to each other via e-mail
- Reading
Comprehension from South China Morning Post
- Two modes -- practice
and test; more materials at this site
- Who's
Who and What's What
- Daily comprehension
questions for new York Times feature stories
-
Reading Skills
Electronic texts
- Electronic
Literature: Collections
- Yahoo's index
- Impact
Online
- Reading texts by
topic (social issues, health and fitness, world news, sports
and entertainment); each text has linked definitions (and often
digitized pronunciation) of key words, as well as links to related
topics
- Online
Books Page
- University of Pennsylvania
has a remarkable collection of thousands of online texts; you
can sort by author, title, or subject; you can search by title
or author; you can examine several interesting 'special interest'
features such as "Banned Books online" or "A Celebration of
Woman Writers."
- Things
to Read
- An unclassed collection
of web-based reading materials of potential interest to English
language learners
- Voice
of the Shuttle
- UC Santa Barbara's
extensive selection of literature, neatly separated into different
categories
Drama
- ESL
Cafe Web Guide: Drama
- links for English
language learners
- Drama
- many resources
from Carnegie-Mellon U's English page
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News
- Bangkok
Post for English Language Learners
- Feature articles
from the Bangkok Post, a major Asian English Language newspaper,
with background information, vocabulary notes, and reading
skill suggestions
- Ohio
World News page
- News in English
from around the world
Poems
- ESL
Cafe Web Guide: Poetry
- links for English
language learners
- Haiku
for People
- classical
and contemporary poems using the 5-7-5 syllable haiku
structure
- Popular
Poets
- a good collection
of links for English and American poets
Stories
- Short
Fiction
- many resources
from Carnegie-Mellon University's English page
- Short
Story Search
- search or browse
web story and poetry resources by author or title; English
learners may like "The
shortest shorts," their collection of very short stories,
which are arranged by author, title, and theme.
- Storybytes
- a few VERY short
stories (2 words (!) to 2048 words)
Songs
- Yahoo
Lyrics Page
- many sources of
song lyrics
- SongFile
- searchable database
of thousands of songs
Interactive Fiction
- Hyperizons
-- Hypertext fiction
- construct-your-own-stories
- Interactive
Fiction page
- Yahoo's collection
of links
Other
- Short
Fiction
- many resources
from Carnegie-Mellon University's English page
- Master
Works of Western Civilization
- links to (English-language)
texts of a number of classics of European thought, from ancient
Greece to the first half of the twentieth century
- Myths
and Legends
- directory of links,
organized by region and language group
Et cetera
- Ex-Change
- "writings of nonnative
English speakers from all over the world"
- Humor, Jokes,
and Fun
- Yahoo's index of
sites
- Projects
by ESL Students
- read some student
writing
- Speed
Reading Self-Pacing Methods
-
Five
simple methods for reading speed improvement
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