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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 (requires javascript)
• 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)

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