ICT 4 ELT Portals

Reading for teachers of intermediate students

Compiled and annotated by
Ruth Coufalová,
Palacký University in Olomouc.

This list contains links to reading resources for intermediate (students and) teachers.

• Reading signs in English

  http://www.manythings.org/signs/

  A great resource of photographs of over 700 signs from English speaking countries. Arranged in alphabetical listings.

• ESL Two Cents Café

  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3941/

  At this website you can find not only opinions and information about teaching reading in English, but also many ESL/EFL links. A great idea is the possibility of exchanging ideas of English teachers from all over the world in the Chartroom section. Any teacher can drop their "two cents" by providing some useful information about a selected topic e.g. reading, dictionaries, resource books, games etc.

• Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books

  http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Liang-ExtensiveReading.html

  This page created by Mei-Ya Liang focuses on intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students. The aim is to guide students to read authentic e-texts outside of the classroom and teach them to evaluate online materials with peers.

• Reading Strategies For Web Activities

  http://www.clta.net/lessons/strategies.html

  A short list of reading strategies for web activities divided into six steps: Pre-reading and prediction, Skimming, Looking for cognates, Looking for meaning through context, Careful reading and Applying what they have read. Suitable for all levels of English.

• Novelguide

  http://www.novelguide.com/

  A great free source for literary analysis on the web. It contains novel summaries, character profiles, metaphor analysis, biographies and much more.

• English Works!

  http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html

  A good resource of reading exercises including short articles about famous people – e.g. Thomas Edison, John Lewis Clark, comprehension check exercises, vocabulary practice and ?Cloze Reading Practices? with immediate feedback

• Aesop's Fables

  http://www.aesopfables.com/

  An online collection of Aesop's Fables including a total of 656+ fables including a list of morals.

• Artsedge: Discovering Romeo and Julia

  http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/randj/artsedge.html

  This web page helps teachers bring the old famous story of Romeo and Julia to their classroom. It provides background reading information about Shakespeare's England, a detailed analysis of the story, connections of the story to the arts and lesson plans

• Encyclopedia Mythica

  http://www.pantheon.org/

  A great Internet encyclopaedia or mythology, folklore and religion. It contains an image gallery with hundreds of images of all kinds of deities, heroes, and strange creatures of every description.

• English-Zone.com

  http://www.english-zone.com/

  This website contains many links to different areas of learning English. Here they are called ?zones?. One of them is a ?reading zone? with many interesting interactive exercises and quizzes for all levels of English.