Online Reading Resources

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Reading Strategies and General Practice

• Good general menu with reading skills/strategies and cloze lessons/exercises http://www.eslflow.com/readinglessonplans.html
• Reading links
  
  
  • http://towerofenglish.com/reading.html
  • http://www.esl.about.com/od/englishreadingskills/
  • Levels and categories for reading practice at the direct links listed below:
    
    
    • Beginner Reading Skills (14)
      http://esl.about.com/od/beginnerreadingskills/
    • Reading - Advanced (17)
      http://esl.about.com/od/readingadvanced/
    • Reading - Intermediate (11)
      http://esl.about.com/od/readingintermediate/
    • Reading Comprehension Quiz (28)
      http://esl.about.com/od/readingcomprehensionquiz/
    • Reading Lesson Plans (8)
      http://esl.about.com/od/readinglessonplan1/
  • Reading strategies and leveled reading practice - http://www.eslgold.com/reading.html
  • Reading links - http://eleaston.com/reading.html
  • Everyday English: Sample Receipt - http://www.esl.about.com/od/beginnerreadingskills/a/receipt_explain.htmWords
    http://kweto.com/etjaichi/nicolascueto/
  • High frequency irregular verbs - http://evaeaston.com/pr/stress-pattern.html
  • The names of the 50 states pronounced - http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.html
  • Audio calendar: days of the week, months, ordinal numbers and year - http://evaeaston.com/pr/calendar.html

Dialogues

• http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/bllisteningplans.htm

Short Passages

Everyday English -  interesting listening topics at three levels with transcripts, questions and answers

• http://www.englishlistening.com/
• http://eleaston.com/reading.html

Stories

• Very short stories for adult readers with comprehension questions - http://www.swadulted.com/Stories/stories.htm
• The Story of Chicken Little with audio - http://evaeaston.com/pr/reading-chicken.html
• http://www.esl.about.com/cs/listening/
• Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts (short traditional and modern retellings with cute illustrations)
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
• Try the easier-to-read selected fables first. Some have RealAudio Files, some lesson plans, dictionary link available http://www.pacificnet.net/%7Ejohnr/aesop/aesopsel.html  
• Crime short stories for advanced level. Teacher's link-study questions/games/activities (for some stories), reader's forum.
  http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/crimeindex.html
• Humorous stories. Teacher's link-study questions/games/activities (for some stories), reader's forum.
  http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/humourindex.html

Reading for Content

• Full Text Great Literature Classics - A Teaching and Educational Web site
  http://www.book-worm.org/
• http://www.englishclub.com/reading/classic-reading.htm
• Reading links galore
  http://eleaston.com/reading.html
• Takako's Great Adventure (10 episodes) Readings with audio, comprehension questions and vocabulary explanation http://towerofenglish.com/internationaloubccatakakoindex.html
• News archive by categories: (one or more follow-up activities/instructor page in side menu)
  http://towerofenglish.com/literacynetcnnsfarchives.html

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