WEB PAGES RELATED TO READING ACTIVITIES

Here are some links to online sources where you can find ESL reading activities for ESL students and
teachers

 ESL Flow contains topical ESL reading lesson plans and teaching ideas, plus lessons and exercises for
reading students
 ESL Wonderland contains reading activities such as timed reading activities. For example, students can
click on the "Start" link to begin reading the relevant article. The student can fill in the answers to
questions about the article, along with their name and email address, and then submit their answers.
The timed activity allows the student ten minutes to read and answer the questions. The remaining
time appears in the status bar at the bottom of the window.
 ESL Galaxy offers printable pdf exercises to teach reading comprehension. The most popular type of
these exercises is their text mazes that work like magic in teaching students how to read. Text mazes
hide text as in a maze and this encourages the students to read while solving the maze. At the end of
the activity, the site has comprehension questions to go with these exercises
 CCFS provides stories and readings on a wide variety of subjects for ESL students.

 5 Minute English contains links to reading comprehension quizzes and activities covering a wide variety
of interesting topics. For example, they offer:

 "Take a Bath!" which is a reading comprehension test related to bathing

 "Summer Solstice" which is a reading activity related to the summer solstice
 "Test Taking Skills" which requires students to read about test taking skills
 "Improving Your English" which is a reading about improving English
 "Friendship," which is all about friendship
 "April Fool's Day" which talks about this fun April holiday
 "The Travel Bug," which is travel focused
 "English Around the World" which allows students to read about speaking English in
various parts of the world.

 Primary School contains links to reading games and activities online.

 EFL/ESL Lessons and Lesson Plans offers teaching ideas for reading activities as well as links to readings
and stories online.

 At EL Civics each worksheet includes a short paragraph about an everyday problem a character can
face, a true-false exercise, a writing prompt, and a black and white image. These reading activities are
presented in pdf format and you should be able to download them quickly. Teachers can read the
stories to the class before assigning them the writing exercises to test their comprehension. Examples
of short stories include Father's Day Gift, Fireman, Flag of the United States, the Grand Canyon, and
Household Chores.
 A4ESL has ESL/EFL teaching resources contains links to reading comprehension activities and games.
The links on the site have over 1000 activities to help ESL students do self-study. The website also has
quizzes and stories for reading.

 At American Folklore you can practice reading English with their ESL short stories from American
folklore, retold by S.E. Schlosser. Some short stories have an ESL listening component.

 English English.com provides links to some of the best English quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to
help you improve your reading skills. Activities and quizzes range in difficulty from elementary up to
advanced and contain a variety of activities. Some also contain audio versions of the story for you to
listen to.

 World English contains links to reading exercises and quizzes.

 At ESL Monkeys, you can learn English by using and reading news articles, finding a wide range of
reading material for almost any purpose. Activities are designed to build reading comprehension, as
well as to be vocabulary builders, and conversation starters.

 Teach English in Asia provides ESL games to practice reading skills.

 English Club contains links to English short stories from classic literature to help improve your reading
skills.