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READING PROGRAMS, BEST FOR INTERMEDIATE LEVEL READERS This is an absolutely incredible resource designed to help students learn reading strategies - visualize, predict, summarize, etc. Users are led through the process of learning each reading strategy with interactive exercises. Reading Logs gives students a better way to track reading, create vocabulary cards and practice spelling. Learning material is uploaded by teachers and is accessed online by students in their class. Once the material is online, it is brought to life with these learning tools: Electronic Reading Logs; Vocabulary Card Creator; and Listen and Spell practice system. READING JOURNALS ONLINE
BEST WEBSITES TO HELP BEGINNING READERS
Interactively demonstrates 9 most important Strategies for Learning and Reading EXTENSIVE READING MATERIALS AND INTENSIVE READING SKILL-BUILDERS
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Sample graphic that shows a sample "stamp collection" along with a text-based student record. Tom Robb’s submission to the JALTCALL proceedings that outlines the results for the Spring 2008 term with 200 students is available at http://moodlereader.org/ReaderQuizModule-JALTCALL.pdf. about using Graded Reader Tests Online.
This Moodle Reader Module allows students to take quizzes on the graded readers and other books that they have read through an interface that controls the level of the books that they can read. It awards points for each successfully passed quiz so that you can set a target goal for their reading over the school term. Ready-made, randomized quizzes are available for over 400 books and more are being added regularly. Graded Reader Tests Online Moodle installation code and other materials are available here. You can log in as a guest to access the information.
Folktales and legends embedded in a specific culture provide an opportunity to explore and teach rich and fascinating social lessons. Dossier (in French) on online collaborative learning.
A non-commercial portal with articles, links, books, conferences as software related to online learning in tertiary contexts. Free Samples for Grammar, Vocab and Writing practice at many levels.
A website devoted to embedding learning materials into ELT. This is a well laid out website for learning and teaching professionals, and for developers working to promote innovation and best practice in education, where you will find a wealth of practical materials to download, designed to help you. The site is designed for ELT, but has wide applicability to other languages. Some links may no longer be live. Software for Social Scientists who work with Text Based Data. Tool for ethnographic research. The website has a page of very clear screen-shots, letting you see how easy the procedures are. The webpage on the demo version does not reveal the extent of the work that can be done, but asks you to fill in a form saying whether you wish to receive marketing information. Two chapters from its manual are available to download: ‘Chapter 2: Overview’ and ‘Chapter 4:Quick Tour’. Books for Beginning Readers Tar Heel Reader is a great collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible E-Books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. You may even write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or from pictures you upload yourself.
Literature Classics Section (Deborah Healey's from Oregon State) Comprehensive - Discussion - Grammar - Listening - Pronunciation - Reading - Reference - Speaking - Test Prep - Vocabulary - Writing - Authoring - Teacher Utilities
Children’s Digital Library offers 10,000+ Free Kid’s Books Online!). Children’s Stories in many languages. (Search by Country, Language, Age, Award-winning, Book Cover, etc.)
ONLINE READING LABS (FREE) Awesome Stories has an incredible number of accessible high-interest stories. Schools and classes have to join, but you can do it in less than a minute, and it’s free. Much of the site is accessible even without registering. It, too, has recently begun providing audio of its text.
Use for combined Extensive Listening with Reading Practice.
BEST of Larry Ferlazzo’s most highly recommended websites to help Beginning Readers, whether non-natives in ESL and EFL classes or natives!
BEST of Larry Ferlazzo’s most highly recommended websites to help Adult or Older Beginning Readers, whether non-natives in ESL and EFL classes or natives!
BEST of Larry Ferlazzo’s most highly recommended websites to help Intermediate Readers, whether non-natives in ESL and EFL classes or natives! One of the very best websites for Intermediate readers is, without a doubt in my mind, Into The Book. This is an absolutely incredible resource designed to help students learn reading strategies — visualize, predict, summarize, etc. For the past couple of years it had only been partially completed. In the course of examining sites for inclusion in this list, though, I found that all its exercises were finished. Users are led through the process of learning each reading strategy with interactive exercises. Reading English.net may be the best Online Reading Lab yet devised. It provides excellent vocabulary analysis and re-encounters of most essential words, links learners to Voice of America readings, and offers pre-reading Vocab Quizzes, readings (with or without audio), which are followed up with a Writing Exercise. Seems to be the most well-designed Online Reading Lab (ORL) this researcher has found yet! Same page dictionary translations are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Thai.
Largest free collection of Online Reading Labs other than CALL4ALL.us
(John McVicker - Ohio University) You will find links for Reading resources for everyone, Reading resources for English language learners, Activities and Quizzes, Stories, Songs, Poems, Interactive Fiction, Etc. See also World News Sources. The main categories are: Today's News, News Topic Search, News Directories, Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television and Sports. You can find the news you want on-line. Use this source for pleasure reading or research. Download RealAudio® to hear stories read to you. William M. Balsamo's AMERICA -TODAY and TOMORROW Language Education And Research Network, Inc. in Japan. Reader-Specific Lexical Practice for Improved Reading Comprehension or REAP from Carnegie Mellon Computer Program: Email to request access to REAP, telling which REAP interface you would like to receive access to, with a brief message describing your interests and intended use of REAP. The "Search Interface" is simpler and easier to use. It allows you to find readings to use based on reading level, length, topic, etc. The "Full Interface" also allows you to store a list of readings, set up access for students, review student use of the system, have the system select readings based on individual needs, and make use of other advanced features.
WITH LONWEB PARALLEL TRANSLATIONS, the site owner says: We strongly believe that anybody can learn a lot from our collection of Bilingual Texts. Some are public domain (documents, laws), some are copyrighted by us like the charming Daisy stories.They are currently available from English to 55 languages. great powerpoint presentation about online reading labs.
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Robb explains via YouTube how to use Graded Reader Quizzes at his Moodle site. In Taiwan, ROC.
PDF file. Twenty passages written at the one thousand word level. Includes a discussion of the principles behind the course and methods of administration. Reading Matrix offers an extensive line of free Online Reading, Vocabulary and Short Stories, including: Analyzing Text (12) new; Audio and Text (18); Proofreading (4); Reading Comprehension Advanced (10); Reading Comprehension Beginner (14); Reading Comprehension Intermediate (19); Short Stories (11); Vocabulary (51) practice pages.
Is it worth the while? Pino-Silva, J. (2006). The Reading Matrix, 6 (1), 85-96. The main focus of this article is to describe the 3-phase, gradual process that led to the current design of a web-based ER scheme. The paper begins with a brief discussion of ER, reading on line (RO) and self-directed learning as part of the rationale for the new scheme. Useful Reading Links This site is a comprehensive one-stop resource for all that is extensive reading. It includes an annotated bibliography of articles and research.
(Waring’s List of People Using and Researching Extensive Reading)
The ESL Reading and Writing Resources Forum was created for sharing ESL syllabi, lesson plans, handouts, teaching tips, and more. It is a place where you can share your ideas and find out what others are doing as well. MindPlay.com’s Reading Programs (Commercial Software Programs) My Reading Coach (MRC), FLuent Reading Trainer (FLRT), and Reading Analysis & Prescription System (RAPS) are their three main programs, known for effectiveness. (Kieran McGovern) ONLINE READING LABS (COMMERCIAL SITES REQUIRING FEES OR PART OF PUBLISHERS’ TEXTS OR SITES) meant to help turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic ones!
(Just $30 to try all of them for 30 days!) ENGLISH READING PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR CHINESE STUDENTS
Brings students pleasant and rewarding online reading experience, adding various bilingual tools and strategies to help Chinese students in particular
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS' READING PROGRAMS Are you an 'Out of Balance' or 'Well-Balanced' Reading Teacher? Find out here from Sebastian Wren, Ph.D. Teach Children to Learn to Read Online - Time4Learning is an online learning system for children, PreSchool through Middle School teaching language arts, math & more. Online learning & fun.
Worksheets That Teach Affordable Tailored Program Curriculum Has Helped 100,000's Affordable Tailored Program Curriculum Has Helped 100,000's PHONICS AND REMEDIAL READING CLINIC PROGRAMS How to set up a Remedial Reading Clinic or Reading Lab; Odessa, Texas volunteer clinic by Don Potter.
Instructional Audio for Rudolf Flesch's 'Why Johnny Can't Read and what you can do about it'.
Here is John Corcoran's web site. He was a teacher but could not read. His story is fascinating. He eventually learned to read and is now an advocate for teaching reading with phonics - the only method that really works. PROGRAMS THAT AIM TO BUILD UP READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS Measure and monitor reading fluency and comprehension with AIMSweb Triple Your Reading Speed Improve Your Comprehension by 50% Use for students to map out relationships between words, ideas, people or things. Great for making Concept or Word Maps of various relationships, such as used in the Semantic Field Keyword Approach. Use for associating related word groups.
ELT, linguistics, and communication.
LANGUAGE LEARNING WEBSITES FOR READING VARIOUS LANGUAGES for German, French and Spanish
ELT1108 English Improvement Strategies II CALL Workshop
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's 25 Language Learning Websites and Links MEASURING AND IMPROVING TEXT READABILITY: RECOMMENDED TESTING UTILITIES AND TEXTS
Quickly assess its Grade Level here! You can test readability (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, SMOG) with this handy tool: developed by Mladen Adamovic.
by various publishers: EPER (Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading, done by David Hill)
by various publishers (from Rob Waring)
(Brian Gill’s) GRADED READERS David R. Hill, ELT Journal 2008 62: 184-204, Full Text David R. Hill, ELT Journal 2008 62: 184-204, PDF GRADED READING SKILL-BUILDING STORIES
(Click on a story to read.)
(Click on a story to read.) (for English Language Learners) PROGRAMS FOR BEGINNING READERS Free Samples for Grammar, Vocab and Writing practice at many levels. (Free Demos)
View this for a HUGE collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involved in the stories that they read. By: Jim Burke (1998). TEXT ANALYZERS Readers, Readability, and the Grading of Text with Book Surge: Bill DuBay has just published a work very central to the concerns of ER. Use AWL highlighter as a core academic vocabulary evaluator (CAVE) to identify AWL at any of 10 levels in any text you submit up to 2400 characters. Focus on learning how to use these highlighted core academic vocabulary, either by writing your own sentences, creative vocabulary stories, or better yet by using them actively in interview questions practiced with a partner. Review highlighted words 1-3 days later by means of the AWL gapmaker, based on the text you read and studied before. Uses a section or summary of a text.
Use Compleat Lexical Vocab Profiler to estimate readability of any text as follows: Any text inputted will output a Color-Coded Analysis showing you all the words of your text by word frequency levels: K1 words used (from lst most common 1,000 English words in blue); K2 words used (2nd most common 1,001-2000 words used in green); AWL words (Academic Word List terms) used in brown; and off-list words in red. This way you can focus on learning any academic or off-list words, once most common words have been mastered. Range Programs tell you about the distribution of words or other lexical units across a set of two or more texts. The texts can be comparable corpora or subdivisions of a corpus, or a set of texts supplied by a user.
Analyze text content using this free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members. This analyzer will accept text up to 500 KB in size. Target texts can be typed or pasted in on this page for analysis. for data-driven language learning on the web.
ATOS for Books formula is the first and only readability method based on analysis of actual student reading of entire books. They give comprehension statistics from 30,000 students reading almost a million books. Rennaisance Learning has the world's largest database of words used in actual books - over 30,000 books comprising nearly 500 million words! Explains how to use Graded Reading materials online to improve your English skills while using pleasure reading. in The Language Teacher entitled Why Extensive Reading should be an indispensable part of all language programs.
(Visual and Cognitive Model explained by John Guthrie)
Learn how READABILITY is calculated, various formulas and check on the level of any site here before you assign it to students. Includes Readability Tests, Test the Readability of a Website, Interpreting the Results, Readability Results, Gunning-Fog Index, Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade level, Reading Level Algorithms, etc. Teachers often want to determine the reading level of a document or Web site. Several traditional tools and online information are gathered on this readability page to help you. EXTENSIVE READING WORLD
Recommended links for online ER or web-reading NEW SITE FOR EXTENSIVE READING HEADQUARTERS! Extensive Searchable Research Reference List with Abstracts. New "Mother of ER Reference Lists" is located here, in these 3 forms:
Considered the "Mother" of ER Reference Lists.
Annotated Bibliography of Works on Extensive Reading in a Second Language References with excellent abstracts are listed alphabetically by author's last name, compiled by Bamford, Chau, Jacobs, Renandya & Robb. Chronological Reference List of articles about Extensive Reading and Language Learning. Annotated ER References by Subject first, then by Dates of Research. This site is a repository for information on Extensive Reading. Opportunities for Lower-Level Learners of EFL/ESL. References. Coady, J. (1997). L2 vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading.
(I-TESL-J) An extensive reading program was established for elementary level language learners at the British Council Language Center in Sanaa, Yemen. A Series of Readers for Adult Learners of English to Enjoy. Edited by Brian Tomlinson and Alan Maley. The books in this series are extensive readers aiming to provide enjoyable and engaging reading in English for non-native speakers anywhere in the world. The writers have not had to suffer linguistic grading or censorship of language or topics. Instead they have been encouraged and helped to write intuitively for older teenagers and adults at one of the following levels: Level 1 (Elementary to Lower Intermediate) Level 2 (Lower Intermediate to Upper Intermediate) Level 3 (Upper Intermediate to Advanced) EXTENSIVE READING: SPEED AND COMPREHENSION by Timothy Bell. This site provides extensive information on reading strategies and skills. Vocabulary Category of the Reading Matrix. The purpose of this Reading Matrix blog is to create a forum for an active conversation among graduate students, educators, researchers and anyone else involved in language, literacy and technology education. It is hoped that individuals who have an interest in these subjects will engage with each other to further contribute to these areas of discussion and offer personal and professional insights.
Free graded reading materials for students and teachers of English
The following database includes interactive online reading activities from around the Web. A fairly comprehensive listing of interactive reading activities for students around the world. Many of these categories have been suggested or submitted by site users. Check out the new story club added to the Short Story Category.
Rory Rosszell’s article on how ER Plus Exercises works better for building L2 reading skills. (login: stories / password: shared)
The Language Learning Benefits of Extensive Reading. Extensive reading by non-native speakers of texts written for young native speakers. Last updated Oct 2003. This site meant to supplement The Extensive Reading Pages.
TFU Graded Reader Level Color-Coded explanation, plus: Why Easy, Extensive Reading (English, Japanese) Extensive Reading Tips (English, Japanese) Extensive reading gives students a chance to practise reading at a level of difficulty they can cope with. Motivating Students to Do More ER: Often a key problem is encouraging students to read... “Should our students be using dictionaries for extensive reading?” Extensive Reading: information on extensive reading with an emphasis on its application to Second or Foreign Language Learning. Discussion board about online reading resources. Go here to discuss and share ideas about learning English by reading line comics, news, magazines, short stories or Graded Reading materials. Printable online activities and quizzes. Web site to accompany Silberstein, Dobson & Clarke's Reader's Choice (4th ed.) Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2002.
VOA’s really simple syndication (RSS) feeds allow you to receive news and information in the categories you choose. Rotten Tomatoes likewise A variety of RSS feeds highlighting the most recent and most popular films and videos/dvds as well as Certified Fresh picks. Individual listings include the movie title, the Tomatometer, and the Critical Consensus. The short story section at east of the web. You can browse the library by genre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices. An RSS feed from the BBC Learning English website. RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest features you want from BBC Learning English.
from Children’s thru Adults.
Jump to Rikai for English, Chinese, Japanese or Spanish News and Study. Provides 7 Japanese Dictionaries, 3 English, and German-Japanese. 9 Levels of Fantastic Kanji Study--World's Premier Site for Japanese Study! 36 Kanji a Day - Put your mouse over the kanji you don't know, and/or click for more information. collected by Rob Waring
One hundred free short English stories for ESL learners with listening support, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises.
Speed Reading Made Easy With Read Faster Now.com upgrade your mind with new speed reading skills! Devour mountains of info in just minutes a day! Results guaranteed! These are some of the online reading programs available, listed at above site. They are additional companies offering products for phonics instruction, reading comprehension, and fluency. (Achievement Technologies, AutoSkill International, BrightStar, Cognitive Concepts, CompassLearning, Crick Software, Don Johnston, Educational Insights, Failure Free Reading, Headsprout, HEC Software, IntelliTools, Istation.com, Kurzweil Educational Systems, Kutoka Interactive, LeapFrog SchoolHouse, OpenBook Learning, Pearson Digital Learning, PLATO Learning, Publications International, Reading A-Z, Renaissance Learning, Riverdeep, Scholastic, Scientific Learning, Siboney Learning Group, StepWare, Sunburst, Vivendi Universal/Knowledge Adventure.) Lexile Scores are an innovative way of measuring reading levels. Free online vocabulary activities, lists and materials for various texts. Japanese culture blogger LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth. EXTENSIVE READING RATIONALE
EXTENSIVE READING WITH LISTENING PROGRAMS Radio Programs in simplified, specialized English. Learners can read and listen at the same time. These programs use a simplified form of English to make listening to the radio easier for you.
A video instructional series in English as a second language for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 50 fifteen-minute video programs and coordinated books. ENGLISH NEWS READING TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS
Links to several British English newspapers and cultural websites at different levels. Try reading real news online to improve your English reading skills! Software for Language Learning with free demos. READING ACTIVITIES
These are Activities by the Letter Building Blocks to Reading. Extracted from "Building Blocks to Reading, Activities by the Letter, Book I. All material copyrighted 1995 Karen M. Potter. Interactive Readers help beginning Englisn readers by giving them online audio support.
The number-two-rated site on The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers, is designed to help early readers, and include bilingual Spanish E-Stories. LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES RESEARCH Language tests to determine learners' levels:
Standardized Reading Level Tests INTENSIVE READING SKILL-BUILDING LINKS
More than 1,300 printable books, lesson plans and worksheets to teach guided reading, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, and reading comprehension. Over 400 tutor/mentor packets to help children being tutored reach their reading goals. Each packet targets specific reading skills for all types of tutor/mentor needs. They are great for educators and volunteers alike. Free samples, online books, lesson plans, worksheets, games, reading-tutor samples and teaching tips, assessments and more. Just Download, Print, and Assemble--Anytime, Anywhere! TOPICS INCLUDE: Alphabet; Phonological Awareness; Phonics; High-Frequency Words; Fluency; Comprehension (Leveled Reading); Other Resources; Program Overview; Building a Tutor Program; Forms and Labels; Packet Assembly; and Assessments. Reading Tutor Materials Many children need extra help to become good readers, and all students benefit from individualized attention. Building a strong tutor/mentor program provides the infrastructure to help boost student reading scores across the board. Our resources give tutors the tools to help emergent readers gain key literacy skills. Reading-tutors is a low-cost, easy-to-use collection of research-based resource packets. Each packet contains everything tutors need for a successful tutor/mentor session. Thousands of free professionally produced student worksheets to download and print. Introduces students to basic reading skills such as sight words, syllables and context clues so they can begin to explore new worlds and adventures inside books. EASY ENGLISH READING, WRITING AND LEARNING SITES
The online encyclopedia made simple a free easy-English magazine
news in easier English Free and in the Public Domain. READING COMPREHENSION
More of the world’s best English language learning links chosen by ESL All Adapted with permission from ESL All December 2005 Issue - Vol. 1, no. 4 Reading comprehension resources accompanied by graded exercises that can truly help you improve your reading comprehension level are hard to come by. These favorite online English reading comprehension resources, selected by ESL All, can greatly help those who would like to sharpen their reading comprehension skills, but do not know what to do or where to turn. These resources will allow you to determine your current reading level as well as explore new topics, broaden your vocabulary, and also improve your overall understanding of English texts. Would you like to find out what your reading level is in English prior to trying reading comprehension exercises? Take the English Club test to find out how well you understand what you read in English. You have 15 minutes to do this test. You must stop after 15 minutes and press the "Your Score Is..." button. There are 20 questions. Reading Comprehension Exercises: News stories accompanied by audio files. Stories in original, abridged or outline form. Many exercises to check reading comprehension (vocabulary, word selection, multiple choice, sequencing, and conclusions). An interesting series of short ESL intermediate reading lessons focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension. Reading Comprehension Texts with Questions: All the passages are adapted from South China Morning Post. These texts are Active Dictionary pages, that is, you can see the dictionary entry for any word in the text by placing your cursor above it and double-clicking on it with your mouse. The texts are accompanied by multiple-choice comprehension questions. For upper intermediate and advanced levels.
Traditional Reading Practice (main idea, details, and inference) with vocabulary and content comprehension questions. Texts are adapted from Interesting Deaf Americans. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University. For intermediate level students.
Language Training for Business: A collection of 26 business-related reading comprehension texts dealing with topics such as: business communication, insurance, finance, technology, quality control, legal English, technology, banking, management and retailing. Vocabulary and reading comprehension questions for intermediate level students. Rocket Reader has fun programs for Kids or Adults to build up their reading comprehension, speed and vocabulary skills. Online or PC Stand-alone versions. Free Sample Downloads. Beginning English Reading Comprehension: English reading comprehension skills and multiple-choice quizzes for beginning level learners, classes and teachers.
An impressive collection of reading comprehension resources for second language learners. Reading Resource List: A list of interactive Web reading exercises and sources for easy, intermediate and advanced ESL students. University of Victoria English Language Center Study Zone: An interesting selection of free grammar explanations and interactive reading exercises for beginner to advanced students.
Tom Cobb’s Reading Tutor for Jack London’s Call of the Wild. Read, listen to the recording, pause to click any word once for individual pronunciation twice for examples + definition. Quick look-ups in Word-Net. READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES TRAINING AND PRACTICE SITES
from Barry, A.L. (2002, October). Reading strategies teachers say they use. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 46(2), 132–141 NEWS READING PRACTICE
Use for speed-reading or practice in getting the gist of news stories quickly. Easy News Stories with full bilingual Support in Japanese, Chinese or Spanish. Students design their own newspapers and can write their own stories. BASIC ENGLISH WORDLIST AND STORIES USING IT (only an 850 word vocabulary) (850 words: Click on WordList or go to page 4). Basic English is an attempt to give to everyone a second, or international language, which will take as little of the learner's time as possible. It is a system in which everything may be said for all the purposes of everyday existence: the common interests of men and women, general talk, news, trade, and science. (Using Basic English’s 850 word vocabulary only)
written using only 850 words of Basic English RECOMMENDED FREE ONLINE READERS
Free easy-English material with a moral lesson. Sinorama magazine (recently renamed as Taiwan Panorama) for Online Reading practice. The Sinorama articles are mainly about issues in Taiwan in such areas as politics, economics, arts, society, culture, and ecology. An electronic corpus consisting of 10,000+ texts! READING LITERATURE, SHORT STORIES AND COMICS ONLINE
Great literature online. Literature listed by author. Authors’ Bibliography included. Collection for pleasure reading. Comics to learn English having fun! How to use Online Comics to improve your English reading skills. A free online library offering thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. Start by looking through the author index to find an interesting author or book. READING ONLINE MAGAZINES
How to read Online Magazines to improve your English reading skills. An affiliate portal that gives you access to many Online Magazines (OMs). SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE ARTICLES FOR AUTHENTIC READING
(Read critically. Everything you read may not be scientifically correct or true!) A scientific magazine covering these kinds of issues: mind and brain, medicine, space, technology, ancient life, environment. Articles in these fields: astronomy, technology and business, nanothechnology, health, environment, biotechnology. READING MATERIALS
One of the very best for language learning issues and articles online. Reading Online (ROL) is a peer-reviewed journal of the International Reading Association (IRA). Since its launch in May 1997 it has become a leading online source of information for the worldwide literacy-education community, with tens of thousands of accesses to the site each month. Unfortunately, it is not longer publishing any new issues after 2005. However, previous issues of the journal focus on literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18. "Literacy" is broadly defined by IRA to include traditional print literacy, as well as visual literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, and so on. A special mission of the journal was to support professionals as they integrate technology into the classroom, preparing students for a future in which literacy's meaning will continue to evolve and expand.
Reading Book Reviews When reading a book, you may also want to find out what others think of books. The internet is a great way to do this. You can look at sites such as www.findarticles.com, www.questia.com and The Internet Public Library in order to find critiques and book reviews. In general, though, you will not want to just type the title of the book into a search engine - this will probably only take you to web sites selling the book. You also want to avoid simply typing a set of words into a search engine. You will get lots of hits but many of these will be personal pages that may contain old information or unreliable facts. If you want to know what other people like you thought of the book, a great way to do this is through online forums. Many book lovers gather on online forums in order to share experiences and ideas about books. Forums such as the speedreading.com forums allow you to select the genre you are interested in and ask other forum users about the book you are reading. You may find that the book is already being discussed or you may need to post a thread that asks others what they thought of the book you are reading. Someone who has read the book may then respond to your question and offer their own opinions and observations. This can be useful if you are forming your own opinions of the book and want a fresh perspective. Of course, if you want to research a specific subject online, you can also do so. If you read about penguins, you may want to find out more about them. A great way to do this is to read more books online. Web sites such as freeonlinebooks.org list free books online by subject so that you can get free information. Online libraries and resources can also help. For example, findarticles.com is a useful site that lists all manner of articles about every subject. Online libraries such as www.questia.com and The Internet Public Library will provide you with reliable information as well and will take you to reliable links that offer useful information. Most university web sites also have lots of resources about every topic imaginable. Planetcdrom.com is about the cheapest source in the world for Educational Software, Movie DVDs, and Music CDs. Cheapest prices online or off for inspiring faith-building books, music, and software. ELECTRONIC BOOKS ONLINE READING LITERATURE FOR FREE
Classics and Speeches. Choose what you’d like to read online by clicking on either Author or Title List below:
Short Stories «Love Stories «Short Stories Collection «Books «Child Books «Romance Books « READING SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATIONS
All programs are hybrid CDs, for use on either Mac or Windows computers. All of these Language Learning Software Programs have been tested and approved by CALL4ALL.US for their effectiveness in helping with language learning. READING AND SPELLING
AVKO Educational Research Foundation - improving spelling and word decoding. READING HABITS
Use this or any other online bookshop to discuss reading habits and preferences. TASK-BASED TEACHING
Designing Online Reading & Writing Courses & Tasks to Maximize L2 Learning (John Paul Loucky) Designing Online Tasks to Maximize L2 Learning Designing Online Reading & Writing Courses & Tasks to Maximize L2 Learning CHAT ROBOTS, CHATBOTS OR CHATTERBOTS, ALSO SIMPLY KNOWN AS “BOTS” These are computer programs on online sites that simulate human communication patterns. They can mimic human conversation or chatting by using artificial intelligence (AI). Eliza was the first chatbot, made in 1966 by Weizenbaum. Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity Great list of Chatterbots from Google’s Directory. Chatterbots waiting to simulate chatting with you at Geocities.com.
TEXT TO SPEECH ENGINES A free TTS or Text-to-Speech Engine. Developer of award-winning text-to-speech software for Windows® based operating systems. Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software. ReadingBar 2 for Internet Explorer reads any web page, makes mp3/wav files, zooms any page, text-only version web pages, translates and much more! Explains ReadingBar Supported Control Codes for Volume, Speed, Pronunciation, Spelling, Silence and Choice of Voices. ELECTRONIC READERS / TEXT-TO-SPEECH PROGRAMS (See Page TTS on T Page) JP Loucky’s Online Zoho Presentation on “IMPROVING-ONLINE-READABILITY” RELIGION Learn to distinguish between cults and true faith. Abandoning atheism, Counterfeit Code: Answering The Da Vinci Code Heresies, etc. Excellent resources for scientific and religious debate. Was he really hiding anything? OTHER
Recommended reading vocabulary from 110 texts. Novels chosen from junior high and high school book lists. Examples: To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, etc. Use our vocabulary lists – Teachers: submit new books from your classes
U.S. State standards require the study of Latin/Greek roots. Root-of-the Week, a product similar to “word-of-the-day”, is very helpful for word study in middle schools and as preparation for SAT/ACT. There are 24 weeks of Root-a-Week. Each week has12 words derived from three roots. Access this feature at: http://www.vocabulary.com/weeklyroots.html Learn 144 words using interactive puzzles, crosswords & word finds. Many interesting Learning Games and Activities, Stories and Holiday Episodes. Read Short Flash Stories!
Go here for a quick survey of CALL4ALL’s Extensive Reading Database. Click on "Online Resources for English Learning" to access pages with many annotated links for... Reading Opportunities; Listening Opportunities; Vocabulary & Grammar; Test Your English; Keypals; & Chat Link Sites. These sites a) have a history of consistent service; b) offer quality materials; c) feature regularly updated materials and/or a large enough collection of materials so that students can benefit from visiting the site again and again.
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In fact, they share many of the same functions. While PopJisyo used to be inferior to Rikai, over the past few years Rikai has become inferior and very distracting with dating ads, but it still remains an effective glossing tool between English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. There are 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by thousands of volunteers.
These are 225 book reports written by Doshisha University students to help you decide what books you would like to read. Choose either Low or High Intermediate Levels
from Florida State’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in mp3 (audiobook) format. It's a growing collection of public domain content graded for K-12, including MP3 audio files, text files, permission to make "books", and at least one post-reading activity sheet for each. Children`s Story and Picture Books; World Folktales Translated by Digital EHON Site DESIGN is an ever-growing, all-encompassing field that accommodates a plethora of different disciplines. How would a contemporary hierarchical tree of Design look like? The proposed challenge is simply to visualize the contemporary Design landscape.
ESL Reading.org (Kieran McGovern) posts PDF versions of longer stories popular with learners (including 'The Signalman', 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' 'The Body Snatcher,' the 'The Marble Finger' etc. Also a series of 400 word quirky stories: 'Did that Really Happen?' originally published in Hong Kong’s Ming Pao paper.
Web-based Portfolio of CALL Resources: Online Review (Great Resources and Skwrl from Andy Johnson)
Free graded reading materials for English language learners URBAN MYTHS vs. REALITY 'Did That Really Happen?': a series of 400 word quirky stories written for Ming Pao Daily in Hong Kong. Combining urban myths with elaborated versions of real event 'Did that Really Happen?' challenges reader to distinguish real events from invented ones. REFERENCE MANAGEMENT ONLINE The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages. Your email, contacts, and calendars in sync. MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars in the cloud and keeps them all up to date and in sync across your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, MobileMe sends the new information up to the cloud, then updates all of your other devices. Your iPhone or iPod touch is updated in real time. And on your Mac or PC, it happens automatically every 15 minutes Features of Google Scholar: Learn about key papers in any area of research; Search diverse sources from one convenient place; Find papers, abstracts and citations; and Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. A free online reference management system. Zotero runs in your Firefox web browser, which must be open in order for you to access your research collection. You do not have to be online, however to use Zotero; features such as notes, search, organization will work perfectly well offline, although obviously you will not be able to view some online items in your collection or to acquire other online materials. The Zotero window contains your entire collection: bibliographic references and whole documents and files, your notes, and other items like images and snapshots of web pages.
LIVE NEWS in 18 languages by rotation: The service provides broadcast in 18 languages, including English and Japanese. Remotely Control Somebody's Desktop the Easy Way Online Magazine for Learners of English TOPICS offers learners of English an opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English to an online audience. Not that I am condoning the streaming of music at school, but this site allows a fun exploration of your favorite music genres using Internet radio selections. RESEARCH ETHICS Roger (2007). An open-access document by the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University about ethics and power in educational research. Covers how to avoid any problems in the areas of Conflict of Interest, Consent, Coercion and Confidentiality that could arise as part of a research project involving human participants.
This European-funded Romance Languages Project (in French, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese) aims to study mutual comprehension among speakers of the Romance languages. The site reports on interactive sessions between these speakers, and lists research articles by project staff. RESEARCH AND CITATION PROGRAMS
Among the Best Resources For Learning Research And Citation Skills (from Ferlazzo’s list) are: Here’s the one resource that’s probably accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners. It’s called How To Do Research, and it’s from the Kentucky Virtual Library. It’s designed to look like an interactive board game. The Information Literacy Game comes from the University of North Carolina. It’s an online game designed to help students develop research and citation skills.
Adventures In Library Research comes from Lycoming College. It was created to teach students how to navigate successfully around library resources. Students learn some Internet research skills through playing The Gold Rush Game. The group that created this game, 21st Century Information Fluency, has also developed quite a few other interactives designed to help students learn about using the Web for research, including The Internet Search Challenge, the Keyword Challenge, and even more challenges. All of these are accessible to Intermediate ELL’s. Carnegie Mellon has two games related to research and libraries — “I’ll Get It” and “Within Range”. The St. Joseph School Library has a large number of surprising accessible games related to research. This site might be accessible to high Intermediate English Language Learners. Boolify is a search engine designed for elementary and middle school students that is accessible to English Language Learners. I think there are others that are more accessible, but this is a good one to help teach basic search strategies. It’s on The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008 list. The City University of New York has an excellent series of exercises on actually writing a research paper. EnglishClub.com is a great Citation Builder. Fairfield University has a good tutorial on Using Citations. It’s followed by a quiz. Eastern Washington University also has a good tutorial on Citing Your Sources. Here are several sites that correctly format citations once you input the necessary information: Ottobib; Citation Machine; Bibme; EasyBib; MLA Citation Generator; OSLIS Citation Maker; Knight Cite; worldcat.org; and http://www.noodletools.com/.
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