Links to recommended websites for ESL reading practice.

Includes mini-stories with cloze exercises, speed reading exercises, extensive reading, science reading, and read-and-listen.

A list of Greek suffixes and prefixes with definitions and examples.

Links to three different sections: Greek and Latin Bases, Greek and Latin Prefixes, and Greek and Latin Suffixes.

A collection of links to reading skill building guidelines and articles.

English teachers, librarians, and their students: This one's for you! A well-executed, excellent site that provides basic biographies of some of the most influential writers of the western world, a guide to literary terms and devices (with examples), grammar, roots of words back to the Latin and Greek, English fundamentals, including spelling, and literary devices! This is an enormously helpful resource!
 

This test is similar to standardized reading tests for 12th grade level. Includes a link to the answer key and to additional Ohio Proficiency Tests for practice.

A newspaper and magazine database on the web!

Common English roots, prefixes, and suffixes and their meanings.

Suggestions for a reading exercise and follow-up worksheet.

Your resource guide to the abundance of English reading comprehension materials on the Internet. Find online books, reading lesson plans, magazines, newspapers for ESL learners as well as for native speakers.

Topics about reading skills (skimming, scanning, punctuation, inference, meaning from context, and summarizing) with exercises.

A quiz on Purpose, Tone, and Figurative Language. Reading passage is about Oprah Winfrey's winning the gold medal from the National Book Foundation.

Reading and study links to help improve reading skills.

A rich source of information that will enhance your English-vocabulary skills!
Experience the wonder of words by focusing on the Latin and Greek elements
used in English.

A list of errors that are commonly made by both native English speakers and ESL students. Explanations are included. Excellent resource!!

Includes tutorials on main ideas, topics, topic sentences, implied main ideas, and vocabulary in context.

Reading exercises based on literature about wild children such as Tarzan of the Apes and Romulus and Remus.

A variety of reading comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar exercises based on the conflict between supporters and opponents of growing hemp for wood pulp.

Part of Houghton Mifflin's Education Place for Kid's - this web site is geared toward elementary and secondary school age, but has some cute stories. Students can submit their story ideas.

A fun game from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place for Kid's that teaches proofreading skills in a game setting.