ESL Readers' links (from old website)

Links with reading material:

Bookbrowse.com
ITESL-J's Reading links
TOPICS, an online magazine with lots of reading exercises for English language learners
Celebration of Women Writers
East of the Web's short stories
ESL reading links
Seattle Central's links
Ohio U.'s Reading links
LiteracyNet simplified news stories to read, watch, or listen to
English Club's reading links page
Vance Stevens' Reading Page
Academic Reading and Writing Exercises
EFL Reading site
John Graney's Reading Resource site

Famous Writers

Balzac reading page
Writings of Jack London
Internet.Book, an overview of many
TheFreeLibrary

Folk Tales

Fairy Tales: childrenstory.com
Tales of Wonder
Folk Links, Folk Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Fluency Through Fables (Comenius)
Surlalune Fairy Tales

CESL Reading Quizzes

Pleasure Reading quizzes
EAP2 Population quizzes
All CESL reading quizzes

Other Reading Quizzes

LiteracyNet's readings with quizzes, etc.
Matching Quiz of Commonly-Heard Proverbs
a4esl reading quizzes

Vocabulary

Voice of America Wordmaster
Collaborative vocabulary journal
ESL Study Hall Vocabulary page
University Word Web
Word Surfing, vocabulary site
Vocabulary tests by level (Univ. Quebec/Montreal)
ITESL-J's Vocabulary links
Ruth Vilmi's Vocabulary Help Page
Irene Thompson's Learning Vocabulary
Vocabulary in EAP
Ohio U.'s Vocabulary resources page
Rob Waring's word list and pages of other information about word lists
500 most common words of English, World-English
Academic word list highlighter (tool for analyzing words in a text)

Reading Skills and Strategies

Reading Skills
Learn to read and study (U of Toronto)
How-to-study.com's Reading skills page
Reading Strategies, by Kathleen King
Reading and word-attack strategies, Reading a-z.com
Irene Thompson's Reading Strategies

Other Links:

Teenspace, Internet Public Library, help in finding appropriate subjects
Interesting Things to Read (Univ. of Illinois)
Manythings.org
Biography.com
Literacynet's Story of the Week
World Electronic Text Library
Digital Fiction by subject
ESL cafe's poetry links
The Many Roads to Japan, by Robert Norris, downloadable book for students and teachers
Amazon Book Source (World's largest bookstore)

Readers' Blog starts

Have resources you'd like to share? To post on this weblog,
remember the old CESL log-in:
cesl07@hotmail.com
our password is a very familiar building, all one word.

CESL teachers and students are welcome to use this blog;
other people are too. We'll try to keep it updated as time
permits. Know any new resources? Let us know!