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    This is a good way both to improve your vocabulary and written comprehension and spend a relaxing time. If you're looking for specific books, try the section Archives below. Or you can use the links to several books or short texts in the section Texts. If you find too many unknown words in the text you're reading, you should try another easier text. You need to read about a particular subject? Try the link Topics above.

FAVORITES

Independent Study Lab. Graded readings. Reading plus exercises on Reading Comprehension, Jumbled Sentences, Gap-filling, Matching.

Literacy Net. CNN's Story of the week (Whole, Abridged or Outline), plus Activities (Word selection, multiple choice, sequencing, conclusions...). Online dictionary.

Soon Online Magazine. Easy English, exciting true stories.
Tests & Comprehension. Reading comprehension. Also vocabulary translation into Spanish

The call of the Wild, by Jack London. Audio book. Click on Sound, then Text and you'll listen while you read. Also Wordnet Search for unknown vocabulary. 

Trivia directory. Read about amazing facts. Links to fun pages.

 

 ARCHIVES 

  1. Alex Catalogue. Documents on Literature and Philisophy. Search and browse by author, title or date. Some only offer catalogs. Also downloads.

  2. Bibliomania. More than 2,000 free texts, study guides and reference resources. Slow. 

  3. Books on line. Links to Reading webs on topics such as Arts, Children, Computing, History, Music, Politics, Science Fiction, Women, ...  
  4. Classics Archive. Select from a list of 441 woks of classical literature.
  5. EServer. List of books by Chaucer, Darwin, Dostoevsky, Freud, Joyce, Poe, Thoreau, Wilde, ...

  6. Interlinks. Search. Links to database webs on Poetry, Journalism, Literature,...)

  7. Internet Public Library. Browse by author, title or category.

  8. On Line Books. Search by author or title. 

  9. Project Gutenberg. Search. Also news, articles, newsletters. You can volunteer. 

TEXTS

  1. A midsummer night's dream by Shakespeare. Simplified.
  2. Alice in Wonderland. by Lewis Carrol. With original pictures.  

  3. All Experts. Arts and Humanities. Q&A. Choose a topic, choose an expert and send a question. You'll get the answer soon. Books on Literature, Arts, Women, History, Languages...  

  4. Anigrams. Game. Choose a topic and see how the meaning can change with the same letters.

  5. BBC World Service. Listen and read about today's news. Derived activities. 

  6. Demented lyrics. Read lyrics sorted by artist or title. 
  7. ELC Website. 200 reading exercises. Reading comprehension, Recreating the Story, Gap-filling. Easy
  8. El País Read daily news about Spain.
  9. English Club. Classics, Short stories, Proverbs.
  10. English Second Language. Links to webs on ESL.
  11. English to go/Today's lesson. Complete lesson plan. Students' handouts included.
  12. ESL Quiz Center. Quizzes on Geography, History, Science, Culture, ...  
  13. ESL Reading. Links to more than 7,000 webs on ESL, some about graded readings
  14. Exchange. Short stories, poems, essays, projects, pen pals, ... Cookbook, World Cultures, ... 
  15. Fables 1. Some with pictures and audio. Suggested morals. Dictionary. Lesson plans. Music window.
  16. Fables 2. Read, then complete exercises On Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension and Writing.
  17. Folk Tales From all around the world. 
  18. Goldilocks and the 3 bears Primary. Lesson with classroom materials and instructions. Reading text
  19. How Stuff Works. Interesting articles on Science and Technology.
  20. Humor. Classic Jokes. Divided by topics.  Children Jokes  Cool stuff . Section for parents and teachers. Classroom Jokes List of short, simple jokes.  Excusing Jokes. Excuse notes from parents to teachers. Filthy Cartoons. Funny Inside. Humor. Jokes, jokes by e-mail. Humor Search. Search engine to other webs,  Humor greeting cards, Cartoon machine, free e-mail. The Most embarrasing moment. Funny stories
  21. Interesting Things  to read. Links to webs on books, newspapers, magazines and other resources.  
  22. Listen and Learn. Audio books. Simultaneous reading-listening, plus Net dictionary.
  23. Mark Twain's texts. Complete works. Books, journalism, letters, speeches.
  24. Memory Skills. Useful strategies.
  25. Movie games. Trivia, crosswords,... about cinema.
  26. Museums of Los Angeles.  Fill the treasure hunt while you know about 5 museums.
  27. Pacific Net Send a graffitti by e-mail to Los Angeles Graffiti Wall.
  28. Penguin Readers Graded readers for the teacher to download.
  29. Poe's Complete Works. 
  30. Proverbs Quizz. Easy quizzes.
  31. Reading Comprehension Exercises. Links to many webs
  32. Reading Mc Graw-Hill. Funny
  33. Reading Quizzes. Easy.  
  34. Rip Van Winkle. by Washington Irving. Wonderful pictures
  35. School Home Links. Many sections. Handouts to help parents in their children's language. It can be used as a reading-writing exercise. 
  36. TESL Journal. Many links. Articles on Teaching techniques...
  37. The Paper Boy. Read papers from any country in the world
  38. William Shakespeare. Complete works

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