ESL Independent Study Lab -Reading

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Level 100 = Level 200 = Level 300 = Level 400 = beginner/advanced beginner intermediate upper intermediate advanced

Need a dictionary to help you with new vocabulary? Click here. Adult Learning Activities (California Distance Learning Project) - Very practical topics geared to an adult Level education audience. Includes audio-enhanced reading, vocabulary, "pick an answer," and definition matching 100 game. Site has easy navigation and lively animated graphics. http://www.cdlponline.org/ and up Click here if you need to download RealAudio. Culture Capsules - Have a look at web pages made by intermediate level ESL students at Lewis & Clark Level College. Students wrote about and found pictures of people, places and processes from their country. They 100 worked with partners from different countries and then compared their cultures. This is an easy and and up interesting way to both read about and see what other cultures are like! http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/ortesol98/home.html#master ESL Reading provides fun materials for English language learners. These include: original stories and Level simplified versions of classic texts, full PDF print-friendly short stories streamed via Scribd, short texts ideal 100 for classroom use, glossary & activities to accompany texts, all texts simplified and graded according to and up level. Also fun listening and watching materials at http://www.eslreading.org/about/abouteslreading.html Kindersite - ( Click the Directory Link) - The Kindersite is designed for child-care, pre-school, kindergartens, elementary and primary schools plus home school, libraries and the home. In fact everywhere where young children access computers. Games, stories, songs and more for ages 2-8. Some great activities Level for beginning readers. Can also be used by older students with limited English if they don't mind the 100 children's content. Sites are organized alphabetically and are labeled by age group. Note: Now there is a and up section specifically for ages 7-12 (see Educational Games link). http://www.kindersite.org/ Click here if you need to download Shockwave or Flash. Reading Exercises Using AES Student Compositions - Students will enjoy reading essays by their classmates. These are timed readings which have a variety of exercises. For each story, begin with Reading Comprehension. Enjoy! Story 1: Halloween by Story 2: The Hours That Makoto Nakazawa (Level Count in 100 and up) My Life by Essa Al-Dhaheri Reading Comprehension (Level 100 and up) Jumbled Sentences Reading Comprehension Gap-fill Exercise Jumbled Sentences Matching Exercise Gap-fill Exercises Review by Abdulaziz Al- Matching Exercise Arifi Review by Mohammed AlReview by Moadad AlShamisi Mazrouei Review by Abdulrahman
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Level 100 and up Story 3: Stuck in the Desert by Saeed Al-Qamzi (Level 100 and up) Reading Comprehension Jumbled Sentences Gap-fill Exercise Matching Exercise Story 5: I Will Never Get My Innocence Back by Sharon DeMayo (Level 200 and up) Reading Comprehension Jumbled Sentences Gap-fill Exercise Matching Exercise

Review by Erina Otani Al-Arfaj Review by Hyung Jin Yoo Review by Hyun Soo Cho Story 4: Losing Identity by Howard Kim (Level 200 and up) Reading Comprehension Jumbled Sentences Gap-Fill Exercises Matching Exercise Story 6: You Can Be a Singer! by Aya Katayanagi (Level 200 and up) Reading Comprehension Jumbled Sentences Gap-fill Exercises Matching Exercise

Level Story Place - Welcome to Story Place, the ultimate children's digital library. Explore pages full of stories and 100 activities for children, young and old! This site has a Spanish version too at and up http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp Study Zone (English Language Center, University of Victoria) Martin Holmes provides excellent Level materials which teach as well as test. Spend some time here and I guarantee you will improve your reading 100 and grammar! The stories and exercises are *really* interesting and fun! Choose from Beginning, and up Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, Advanced 1 or Advanced 2. http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/index.htm Level 365 ESL Short Stories - 365 short recordings of stories and related exercises. It has loads of content and 200 great for students that want to work alone. Watch the tutorial as navigation can be a bit confusing. Good for and up lower levels. Downside = lots of ads (TTV for a video tutorial on using the site) Absolutely Whootie (Blaine Lindy) - These folktales from around the world were chosen because they teach positive values. Each story is rated for age group and time required for reading. Though written with children Level in mind, the stories should be interesting to all readers. Note: Students can now send in their opinions about 200 each story and can create artwork to add to the stories! http://www.storiestogrowby.com/choose.php and up A Good Lesson by Mohammed Al-Muhairi, UAE The Peach Boy by Daisuke Jin, Japan Castaway - (created by Martin Holmes and Stewart Arneil using the shareware program Quandary) - You are on a shipwrecked on a desert island and have only a rescue flare, a pistol and three bullets. Can you Level escape? You must use your reading skills and also your problem solving skills. Good luck! 200 and up http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/quandary/examples/castaway.htm Students who tried to escape! Daisuke Jin, Ken Li, Suhail Al-Khaili, Atsumi Terasaki

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Comics (King Features Syndicate) - Do you like to read comics in your country's newspapers? At this site, Level you'll find many many comics to choose from. You can read just one, or you can follow a comic story over a 200 long period of time. You'll learn a lot of English (some good slang too), and also things about U.S. culture. If and up you can't understand a comic, ask a friend and talk about it. That is good for your English too! http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/comics.htm Culture Shock - Duncan Mason has written a very good article about culture shock. This is especially useful Level for students who are studying away from their home country now, or planning to do so in the future. The 200 article includes illustrations, vocabulary, exercises and quizzes to help you understand culture shock and and up improve your English. http://international.ouc.bc.ca/cultureshock/ EnchantedLearning.com's KinderCrafts - Make holiday crafts by following simple written instructions. The Level pictures will help you understand! You can find U.S. holiday crafts and also crafts for holidays around the 200 world. Here's an example. Want to make a Chinese Lantern? and up http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/crafts/holiday/index.shtml eHow - This site offers "How To's" on everything from losing weight to playing blackjack to heading a Level soccer ball. You can choose a particular subject or enter a topic in the search box. You'll have to register, but 200 it's free. and up http://www.ehow.com/home/home.jsp English-To-Go - Every week there is a new newspaper story with language exercises to complete. You can Level read the article and lesson on your computer. The answers are given at the end. Or you can print out the 200 lesson and answer key to work on whenever you like. You can even email the activity to a friend if you like. and up These articles come from Reuters News Service and are always very interesting. Enjoy! http://www.english-to-go.com/tolesson.htm ESL Student Writing at Lewis & Clark College - It's always interesting for ESL students to read essays and Level stories written by other ESL students. You'll find out what ESL students think about their writing, what 200 stories are important in their lives, descriptions of important people, places and things from their culture. . . and up and more! http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/advwrf99/studentwork.html Level 50states.com - Practice your reading while you look at information on your favorite U.S. state. You can 200 easily become an expert on any state in the U.S. by visiting this site at http://www.50states.com/ and up How Stuff Works (Marshall Brain) - Have you ever wondered how the air gets cold in a refrigerator, why a toilet flushes or what makes a Web page work? If so, you'll like reading these short, illustrated articles on Level "How Stuff Works." Categories covered include: Engines and Automotive, Around the House, Electronics, 200 Science and Technology, Computers and the Internet, Machines, In the News, Body and Health, and more! and up You can also enter a topic in the search box. http://www.howstuffworks.com Review by Mohamed Salem Review by Emiko Imai Review by Akiko Maeda Review by Makoto Takahashi Review by Cecilia Buch Imagination Voyages (Doug Mills and Carrie Melin-Univ of Illinois) - Plan a trip to the Grand Canyon! It's fun, but you have limited money and time. You have to choose your transportation, accommodations Level (where to stay), and activities. If you are studying with a friend, this activity will give you lots of speaking

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200 practice. But you can also do it alone. At the end of the activity, you will send a postcard from the Grand and up Canyon to your teacher. You can send it to me if you like. I will post your message to the Lab! My email is krauss@lclark.edu http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/travelsim/ Monthly Activity Calendar (EnchantedLearning.com) - What's going on today? Visit the Monthly Activity Level Calendar and find out! For each day of the year, you'll have an Internet-based activity to explore. This is a 200 great way to add to your knowledge and there is something of interest to everyone! and up http://www.enchantedlearning.com/activitycalendars/ MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries (MysteryNet.com) - MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries features mysteries to solve, Level scary stories, and magic tricks for kids. There is also an archive of mysteries written by kids. So, if you like 200 mysteries (and you're a kid OR an adult), you'll love this Web site at and up http://kids.MysteryNet.com/ On This Day (NY Times) - Go to this site on any day and find out what important world events happened Level on this day in history! You can read stories and see pictures of that important event. You can also see famous 200 people who have birthdays on that day. and up http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html Reader's Theater (Aaron Shepard) - Free, reproducible scripts of stories from various cultures of the world, Level especially to be performed in a Reader's Theater setting. Use these for reading practice, but better yet, 200 perform them! and up http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/index.html Topics Online Magazine - This publication offers learners of English the opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English to an online audience. http://www.topics-mag.com/index.html Level Reviews of stories by ESL students: 200 Review by Saeed Al-Mehairbi and up A Scorpion Punished Me by Saeed Al-Mehairbi, UAE Kind Mind Touches God by Chai-Tsun Li, Taiwan Black Duck by Abdulaziz Alusaimi, Kuwait Once Upon a Time by Kulraj, Nepal Basil Onions and Gresham Garlic by Izzy Cohen, Israel Level USA Learns - Excellent, free Web site funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Designed to 200 support immigrants who want to learn or improve their English skills as they become part of American and up society. Three unique programs: First English Course: a 20-unit, video-based beginner-level course | Second English Course: a 17-unit, video-based intermediate-level course | Practice English and Reading: 42 intermediate-level stories and activities at Visiting the Doctor (Western/Pacific Literacy Network) - Practice the language you need to get medical care. Level There are dialogues, readings, puzzles, and more. Each part of the Web site has activities at different 200 language levels. and up http://www.literacynet.org/vtd/index.html

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Zoom School (EnchantedLearning.com) - Zoom School is an on-line elementary school classroom with Level lessons in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities. Interested in whales? How about 200 rainforests? Because it is designed for kids, the reading material at Zoom School is simple and includes lots and up of illustrations. This makes it an excellent reading resource for non-native English speakers at http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/school/ Do You See Larry Ferlazzo's Best Websites to Help Beginning Readers. Want http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/01/22/the-best-websites-to-help-beginning-readers/ More?

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