Useful Websites for Your Extensive Reading
1. 365 ESL Short Stories
http://www.eslfast.com
This website provides 365 free short stories of different kinds for intermediate ESL/EFL learners. The link also has an audio file for each story.
2. 100 free short English stories for ESL learners
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/
The website offers 100 free, short English stories for ESL learners with listening, grammar, comprehension, dictation exercises, and crossword puzzles.
3. Adult Learning Activities
http://www.cdlponline.org
Topics such as working, law and government, family, health, and safety are covered in this site. The stories are interesting and useful for high intermediate students to learn about how things work in the U.S.A. The link also provides audio files for the stories, so learners can listen and then practice reading to improve their pronunciation.
4. Oxford Owl: Help your child’s reading
http://oxfordowl.co.uk/library
Oxford Owl is a free website built for age-specific reading tips and activities, free eBooks, and lots of fun ideas for children to learn.
5. Online Reading Comprehension
http://www.readtheory.org/pages/intermediate.html
The link provides short stories of different kinds with printable exercises. Some of these stories also include audio files so that Ss can practice listening too.
6. Children’s Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
The link provides a wide range of books of different kinds. Furthermore, some of the books in the site also have audio files so that learners can practice listening for pleasure.
8. English Maven
http://www.englishmaven.org/Pages/Reading%20Comprehension.htm
The website offers stories for different reading levels (low beginners to low advanced learners) with audio files. The link includes many short stories with audio files attached. Children can also try to answer simple questions under each story.
9. 5-Minute English
http://www.5minuteenglish.com/oct29.htm
All stories with graphic information are short and easy to read. After each story, there are also exercises for further practice. These stories are suitable for different levels.
10. Reading A-Z
http://www.readinga-z.com/samples/leveled-reading.html
The site provides a lot of fiction and nonfiction leveled books spanning 27 levels of reading difficulty. The site also allows downloading and printing several free books that include leveled readers, and books that focus on phonics, vocabulary, and fluency.
11. Learning page: Free teaching resources
http://www.learningpage.com
This website offers lots of free picture-books, basic sheets, theme sheets, or clip art so that Ss can download and read those free stories.
12. Science A-Z
http://www.sciencea-z.com/scienceweb/freesample.do?id=10672&showsamples=true
The website gives many science stories with colorful pictures. Students can download the stories appropriate to their reading level.
13. American Folk Tales, Myths & Legends: A to Z
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/
This is a free website without registration There are a variety of American folk tales, myths and legends in this site. These stories are appropriate for different levels. It is easy to find the stories as they are categorized by the alphabet from A-Z. However, there may be difficult words and phrases through these stories.
14. American Stories For English Learners
http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/
This is a free reading website, which is designed to cover all English skills, vocabulary, grammar, and/or others, etc. The site also provides MP3 files for each of the stories, so students can listen and read along. These stories are suitable for intermediate students.
15. ESL Reading
http://www.eslreading.org
The site provides wonderful materials for English language learners. It also allows downloading reading and listening materials, worksheets or other teaching notes.
16. ESL Independent Study Lab
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
The website contains over 250 of the best Internet resources for ESL/EFL students. All websites are clearly annotated. Organization is by skill area and language level. The reading resources include stories for different levels. Some of the links also offer MP3 or video files.
17. Study Zone
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/
This website is for ESL/EFL students. It provides reading materials for different levels of English learners with practice exercises. In addition, the site also includes exercises to improve English vocabulary and grammar.
18. Topics Online Magazine for Learners of English
http://www.topics-mag.com
This publication offers learners of English the opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English to an online audience. The site offers short articles of different topics. These articles are suitable for intermediate and higher students to read and learn.
19. BBC Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
This website provides teachers and students current events which are classified into five categories: Latest Reports, Video Stories, News Stories, Business Stories, and Sports, Science, Arts & Entertainment stories. Reading passages are short and easy. Students can read the texts or listen to the audio and video files. It also includes exercises to examine vocabulary comprehension within the text after each reading passage.
20. Speed Reading Test Online
http://www.readingsoft.com
Last but not least, this site helps readers find out their own reading level in the target language, so that learners will know their actual reading speed and reading comprehension. From this test, readers will know how to choose appropriate books for reading.
21. Friendships 1
http://brosia.com.
The link offers free online stories about friendship. All the stories are short and easy enough for intermediate or higher students to read.
22. Friendships 2
http://www.theholidayspot.com/friendship/stories/
The link provides short stories about friendships. After each story, there is a lesson learned from the story, which would be very interesting to students.
23. Friendships 3
http://storystar.com/php/list.php?theme_id=3
The link provides thousands of short stories about families and friends, which were written by different writers worldwide. Some of the stories are a bit difficult to read, but many of them are good for higher intermediate English learners.
24. Personal Experiences 1
http://www.experienceproject.com/groups/Write-Short-Stories/653
Through this link, learners can read different personal stories shared by thousands of people worldwide.
25. Personal Experiences 2
http://www.inspired-personal-development.com/true-short-stories.html#INV
There are a lot of stories about different personal experiences. These stories are neither too short nor long. However, some of the stories contain difficult words, so that readers need to choose the suitable ones to read.
26. Personal Experiences 3
http://celestial.kuriakon00.com/nde/
The link offers many stories of near death experiences. The stories in this site are written or collected by different writers and people.
27. Celebrations 1
http://www.adoptvietnam.org/vietnamese/celebrations.htm
This website is about Vietnamese celebrations and/or festivals. All the stories are short and easy to read. These would be good for intermediate or upper-intermediate students to read and learn.
28. Celebrations 2
http://festivalinvietnam.org
This is one of the best websites that includes many articles and stories about famous festivals throughout the country of Vietnam. There is also more colorful graphic information in addition to short texts.
29. Celebrations 3
http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/
The link is easy to read with a variety of stories about celebrations for Christmas, New Year, Easter season, and so on.
30. Celebrations 4
http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/festivals.htm
The link provides holidays, festivals, and celebrations of many countries in the world. It is good to know more about different cultures worldwide.
31. Food 1
http://www.vietnamfood.org
The link provides interesting food culture and Vietnamese cuisines with graphic information. However, there are difficult words about food that students may not know. Therefore, students need to choose appropriate articles to read.
32. Food 2
http://www.vietnam-beauty.com/food-a-drink.html
This website also provides a variety of famous traditional food in Vietnam.
33. Places, Cultures, and People 1
http://www.vietnam-beauty.com/vietnamese-culture.html
This is a free website for everyone to read and look for information about famous places all over the country of Vietnam. Each article is neither too short nor long. But more importantly, readers will learn much about spiritual life of Vietnamese people.
34. Places, Cultures, and People 2
http://www.vietnam-culture.com
This is one of the most popular websites about Vietnam Culture. There are many different topics related to Vietnamese culture such as culture values, traditional customs, myths and legend, and so on.
35. Places, Cultures, and People 3
http://www.everyculture.com/wc/
The site provides information about worldwide countries and their cultures.
36. Sports 1
http://www.manythings.org/voa/sports/
This site offers many stories about sports and it also includes audio files so that students can listen and read along. Almost all stories are easy to read and these stories are appropriate for intermediate and higher students.
37 Sports 2
http://www.readingesl.ca
This is one of the interesting websites that supports reading topics of different kinds. After each reading, there are exercises for the students to do. All the stories are pretty short and easy to read.
38. Sports 3
http://premierskills.britishcouncil.org/en
This site provides useful information about English Premier League such as information about players, soccer team, clubs, and so on. Students who are interested in English Premier League will find it much interesting to read about. In addition, teachers can use this site as teaching materials for their lessons.
http://www.eslfast.com
This website provides 365 free short stories of different kinds for intermediate ESL/EFL learners. The link also has an audio file for each story.
2. 100 free short English stories for ESL learners
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/
The website offers 100 free, short English stories for ESL learners with listening, grammar, comprehension, dictation exercises, and crossword puzzles.
3. Adult Learning Activities
http://www.cdlponline.org
Topics such as working, law and government, family, health, and safety are covered in this site. The stories are interesting and useful for high intermediate students to learn about how things work in the U.S.A. The link also provides audio files for the stories, so learners can listen and then practice reading to improve their pronunciation.
4. Oxford Owl: Help your child’s reading
http://oxfordowl.co.uk/library
Oxford Owl is a free website built for age-specific reading tips and activities, free eBooks, and lots of fun ideas for children to learn.
5. Online Reading Comprehension
http://www.readtheory.org/pages/intermediate.html
The link provides short stories of different kinds with printable exercises. Some of these stories also include audio files so that Ss can practice listening too.
6. Children’s Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
The link provides a wide range of books of different kinds. Furthermore, some of the books in the site also have audio files so that learners can practice listening for pleasure.
8. English Maven
http://www.englishmaven.org/Pages/Reading%20Comprehension.htm
The website offers stories for different reading levels (low beginners to low advanced learners) with audio files. The link includes many short stories with audio files attached. Children can also try to answer simple questions under each story.
9. 5-Minute English
http://www.5minuteenglish.com/oct29.htm
All stories with graphic information are short and easy to read. After each story, there are also exercises for further practice. These stories are suitable for different levels.
10. Reading A-Z
http://www.readinga-z.com/samples/leveled-reading.html
The site provides a lot of fiction and nonfiction leveled books spanning 27 levels of reading difficulty. The site also allows downloading and printing several free books that include leveled readers, and books that focus on phonics, vocabulary, and fluency.
11. Learning page: Free teaching resources
http://www.learningpage.com
This website offers lots of free picture-books, basic sheets, theme sheets, or clip art so that Ss can download and read those free stories.
12. Science A-Z
http://www.sciencea-z.com/scienceweb/freesample.do?id=10672&showsamples=true
The website gives many science stories with colorful pictures. Students can download the stories appropriate to their reading level.
13. American Folk Tales, Myths & Legends: A to Z
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/
This is a free website without registration There are a variety of American folk tales, myths and legends in this site. These stories are appropriate for different levels. It is easy to find the stories as they are categorized by the alphabet from A-Z. However, there may be difficult words and phrases through these stories.
14. American Stories For English Learners
http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/
This is a free reading website, which is designed to cover all English skills, vocabulary, grammar, and/or others, etc. The site also provides MP3 files for each of the stories, so students can listen and read along. These stories are suitable for intermediate students.
15. ESL Reading
http://www.eslreading.org
The site provides wonderful materials for English language learners. It also allows downloading reading and listening materials, worksheets or other teaching notes.
16. ESL Independent Study Lab
http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
The website contains over 250 of the best Internet resources for ESL/EFL students. All websites are clearly annotated. Organization is by skill area and language level. The reading resources include stories for different levels. Some of the links also offer MP3 or video files.
17. Study Zone
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/
This website is for ESL/EFL students. It provides reading materials for different levels of English learners with practice exercises. In addition, the site also includes exercises to improve English vocabulary and grammar.
18. Topics Online Magazine for Learners of English
http://www.topics-mag.com
This publication offers learners of English the opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English to an online audience. The site offers short articles of different topics. These articles are suitable for intermediate and higher students to read and learn.
19. BBC Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/
This website provides teachers and students current events which are classified into five categories: Latest Reports, Video Stories, News Stories, Business Stories, and Sports, Science, Arts & Entertainment stories. Reading passages are short and easy. Students can read the texts or listen to the audio and video files. It also includes exercises to examine vocabulary comprehension within the text after each reading passage.
20. Speed Reading Test Online
http://www.readingsoft.com
Last but not least, this site helps readers find out their own reading level in the target language, so that learners will know their actual reading speed and reading comprehension. From this test, readers will know how to choose appropriate books for reading.
21. Friendships 1
http://brosia.com.
The link offers free online stories about friendship. All the stories are short and easy enough for intermediate or higher students to read.
22. Friendships 2
http://www.theholidayspot.com/friendship/stories/
The link provides short stories about friendships. After each story, there is a lesson learned from the story, which would be very interesting to students.
23. Friendships 3
http://storystar.com/php/list.php?theme_id=3
The link provides thousands of short stories about families and friends, which were written by different writers worldwide. Some of the stories are a bit difficult to read, but many of them are good for higher intermediate English learners.
24. Personal Experiences 1
http://www.experienceproject.com/groups/Write-Short-Stories/653
Through this link, learners can read different personal stories shared by thousands of people worldwide.
25. Personal Experiences 2
http://www.inspired-personal-development.com/true-short-stories.html#INV
There are a lot of stories about different personal experiences. These stories are neither too short nor long. However, some of the stories contain difficult words, so that readers need to choose the suitable ones to read.
26. Personal Experiences 3
http://celestial.kuriakon00.com/nde/
The link offers many stories of near death experiences. The stories in this site are written or collected by different writers and people.
27. Celebrations 1
http://www.adoptvietnam.org/vietnamese/celebrations.htm
This website is about Vietnamese celebrations and/or festivals. All the stories are short and easy to read. These would be good for intermediate or upper-intermediate students to read and learn.
28. Celebrations 2
http://festivalinvietnam.org
This is one of the best websites that includes many articles and stories about famous festivals throughout the country of Vietnam. There is also more colorful graphic information in addition to short texts.
29. Celebrations 3
http://library.thinkquest.org/10007/
The link is easy to read with a variety of stories about celebrations for Christmas, New Year, Easter season, and so on.
30. Celebrations 4
http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/festivals.htm
The link provides holidays, festivals, and celebrations of many countries in the world. It is good to know more about different cultures worldwide.
31. Food 1
http://www.vietnamfood.org
The link provides interesting food culture and Vietnamese cuisines with graphic information. However, there are difficult words about food that students may not know. Therefore, students need to choose appropriate articles to read.
32. Food 2
http://www.vietnam-beauty.com/food-a-drink.html
This website also provides a variety of famous traditional food in Vietnam.
33. Places, Cultures, and People 1
http://www.vietnam-beauty.com/vietnamese-culture.html
This is a free website for everyone to read and look for information about famous places all over the country of Vietnam. Each article is neither too short nor long. But more importantly, readers will learn much about spiritual life of Vietnamese people.
34. Places, Cultures, and People 2
http://www.vietnam-culture.com
This is one of the most popular websites about Vietnam Culture. There are many different topics related to Vietnamese culture such as culture values, traditional customs, myths and legend, and so on.
35. Places, Cultures, and People 3
http://www.everyculture.com/wc/
The site provides information about worldwide countries and their cultures.
36. Sports 1
http://www.manythings.org/voa/sports/
This site offers many stories about sports and it also includes audio files so that students can listen and read along. Almost all stories are easy to read and these stories are appropriate for intermediate and higher students.
37 Sports 2
http://www.readingesl.ca
This is one of the interesting websites that supports reading topics of different kinds. After each reading, there are exercises for the students to do. All the stories are pretty short and easy to read.
38. Sports 3
http://premierskills.britishcouncil.org/en
This site provides useful information about English Premier League such as information about players, soccer team, clubs, and so on. Students who are interested in English Premier League will find it much interesting to read about. In addition, teachers can use this site as teaching materials for their lessons.