Friday, August 03, 2007

Developing Reading Skills


This month in Learning with computers we'll be sharing links to develop reading in English.


http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html (Gladys's suggestion)(Enchanting!)

Some of Larry's links:

http://professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html Put cartoon strips in order and answer comprehension questions. (Great!)


http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html It's not fully ready yet but focusses on reading strategies.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm#talk a collection of online reading stories.



http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/gr1_4lily/skill_ae.html Drawing conclusions. (simple but interesting)



http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/learning_material/portal/predicting-meaning_lit_e2/m01/t08/index.htm Predicting meaning



http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/learning_material/portal/checking-the-meaning-of-words_lit_e3/m01/t24/index.htm Using a dictionary



http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/enviroprintp.cfm Reading Street signs



http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/stories_poems_archive_frame.html a collection of stories from BBC



http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-archive.htm collection of stories



http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm stories for kids



http://www.stories.org.br/ the same TRUE story in English and portuguese side by side.



http://www.indianchild.com/short_stories.htm SHORT stories.



http://www.englishclub.com/reading/short-stories.htm short stories graded by level.



These ones I found in Libardo´s blog:

http://www.zapdramatic.com/mod1.htm You can read, listen and watch a very exciting story. You are even asked to interact with the events. SUPERB!
http://www.3xplus.com/pasnet01/scrpasnet01US.htm another interactive DETECTIVE story.
http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html Different stories to read and listen, 3 different levels.
http://www.nwlg.org/pages/resources/owl/OWL3Book1/Book01/default.htm this story explains about opposites in an interesting way.
http://www.go4english.com/ffk/archive.php?lang=en&cid=10041002 Great stories.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/game2/game2.html The time machine. I had great fun travelling in time!

6 comments:

Mrs. Green said...

What a great list of resources! I plan to post about this in my blog and I added it to my shared Google reader feed. Excellent!!

Anonymous said...

Great list really, thanks

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Anonymous said...

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Really thanks for these links.
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