This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...

Follow a stuffed toy as it 'reads' books in lots of unusual places. Includes audio narration in 26 additional languages with text in English.

Article lists a series of steps and tasks to make reading texts more efficient and clear. Written primarily for teachers of ESL students but tasks work for all students.

Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...

The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...

The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...

This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...

This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...

This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...

Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.

Designed for university students in the United Kingdom but applicable to English and advanced ESL students in other countries, this tutorial provides strategies and skills for required academic reading loads.

English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...

Great way to practice English with this beautiful selection of short excerpts from literature classics like the Jungle Book, Sherlock Holmes, or the Cask of the Amontillado. Each text includes comprehension exercises with answers and...

A reading comprehension exercise designed for Spanish-speaking ELLs about the present and future use of robots. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise is in English.

A series of exercises about the weather in Chicago that tests reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking ELLs. Instructions are in Spanish; exercises and readings in English.

Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELLs about transportation and related topics designed to engage reading comprehension skills.

Teach about American culture while developing language, listening and reading skills. This lesson plan includes the TESOL goals and standards.It provides many follow up activities.

This Canadian site offers 40 grammar lessons, as well as lessons in use of idioms and other idiosyncrasies of the English language. There are interactive lessons and quizzes, and reading selections with comprehension questions.

A reading exercise that teaches Spanish-speaking ELLs about different kinds of work and the vocabulary used to describe jobs. Instructions in Spanish; exercise in English.

This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides a continuation of "Water Under the Sink" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords,...

This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "A Festival of Books" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords, closed questions,...

This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "Getting Older But Not Sitting Around" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords,...

ESL tutors learn how to develop student reading skills for ESL students from this lesson plan.

This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "Crazy Housing Prices" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords, closed questions,...