Thursday, May 12, 2016

Reading! The Secret to Success!

One of the best ways for students to improve their English vocabulary and comprehension is through reading.  Of course, this reading has to be level appropriate.  In addition, if they can find a resource which aids them in practicing certain strategies, all the better!  The following is a list of online reading resources I've made use of over the past 6 months.

Read Theory - This one is my favorite. It's free and adjusts to your level.  Everyone should be doing this!!!

My English Pages - A special page for English language learners with lots of different texts.

100 Essays - These are mainly American, but provide some good practice.

5 Minute English - Again, lots of different reading exercises for English language learning.

Reading Labs - University of Victoria reading exercises.  Lots of different levels.

University of Illinois - Lots of different kinds of exercises (not only reading)

Teacher Phil English - This is a Youtube site which has some really good explanations of Wikipedia readings.

*edit*

I'm adding two additional sites to this post:

Literacy Net Reading Resources - a great collection on many different topics.

VOA Learning English - This combines reading and listening on current news stories.