Reading

(TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivisions)

[Note: Most of the activities indexed below are designed to practice reading fluency or reading subskills.  For students who are just beginning to learn to read, see indexes for the alphabet, for phonics and for sight words.]

* Vocabulary Review After Reading
* Poetry: Nothing Gold Can Stay 
* LINK: Story-Telling Cinderella 
* LINK: Jack and the Beanstalk 
* For Whom the Bell Tolls: Upper-Intermediate Reading Lesson 
* Benefits of Extensive Reading (Listening Version)
* Peter Pan: Upper-Intermediate Reading Lesson
* Peter Pan Continued
* Reading Comprehension Questions 
* Graded Reader Survey Form
* Advanced Reading: Slime by Joseph Payne Brennan
* LINK: Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Aquilla Diamond
* Graded Reader Review Index
* Story Time Index
* Scanning Race Game
* LINK: http://www.slideshare.net/
* Make Your Own Test Game: IELTS Reading
* Listen and Draw
* Story Time: ESL Listening (also contains reading component)
* LINK: The Online Graded Reader Text Editor
* The Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales: Story Time ESL Listening (also contains reading component)
* Aesop's Fables: Story Time ESL Listening (also contains reading component)
* English Reading and Listening Practice
* LINK: ESL English Language Learning--Listening and Reading--Audiobooks--Stories http://esl-bits.net/
* Reference Pronouns: Reading Skills Lesson--2nd Version
* Lesson on Nazis: For Upper-Intermediate or Advanced Students
* Supporting Students on Reading Comprehension

* Using Jokes to Teach Inference

* Receptive Skills: Good or Bad
* Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Worksheets 
* Needs Analysis for Reading and Writing Class
* Extensive Reading Tracker

* Students Design the Reading Comprehension Questions

* Jigsaw Reading

* DIY Heading Match

* Faulty Printer

* LINK: 21 Must-Use Reading Activities For Your Language Lessons

* Student Editors

* Lightning Round (Scanning Race Game)

* Running Dictation

* Wrong Words

* Paraphrase Recognition Race

* Paragraph Reconstruction

* Matching Headings to Paragraph

* Garbage Man for Reading

* Match the Sentences in the Paragraph to their Function

* Extensive Reading Online Resources Recommendations

* Write in the Missing Verbs

* Put the Paragraphs in Order

* LINK: Socrative

* Listen and Read

* Gist Task

* Prediction and Check

* LINK: Using quizziz for reading exercises

* Stages of a Reading Lesson

* lead-in

* Orientation to the Text

* Communicative follow up

* Specific Information Questions

* Using Comic Books for Extensive Reading

* Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales: Write Your Own Ending

* Interesting Input plus Production Prompt

* The Monkey's Paw: Reading and Writing Prompt

* The Gingerbread Man and The Stinky Cheese Man: Write Your Own Twisted Fairy Tale

* LINK: Reader's Theater Scripts and Teacher's Guides

* Find the Missing Sentence

* Engaging Activities for Any Reading Text Workshop

 Reading IELTS

* Scanning Race Game
* Make Your Own Test Game: IELTS Reading
* Lesson Plan for Practice IELTS Reading Test

* LINK: Kahoot Game for IELTS Reading

Story Time: ESL Listening (also contains reading component)
* Jack and the Beanstalk
* Peter Pan Part 1
* Peter Pan Part 2
* Peter Pan Part 3
* For Whom the Bell Tolls
* Slime Introduction
* Slime Part 1
* Slime Part 2
* Slime Part 3
* Slime Part 4
* Slime Part 5
* Slime Part 6
* Slime Part 7
* Slime Part 8
* Slime Part 9

* The Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales: Story Time ESL Listening

-- The Brothers Grimm Biography
-- The Golden Bird
-- The Frog Prince
-- A Cat and a Mouse Living Together
-- Lady Mary's Child

-- The Boy Who Wanted to Learn How to Shudder
-- The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids

-- Faithful John

-- The King of the Golden Mountain

* Aesop's Fables: Story Time ESL Listening
-- Aesop Fables Introduction
-- The Eagle and the Fox
-- The Eagle, the Crow and the Shepherd

-- The Eagle and the Beetle

-- The Hawk and the Nightingale

-- The Farmer and the Banker

-- The Goatherd and the Wild Goats

-- The Birds who were Sick and the Cat who was a Doctor

-- Aesop at the Shipyard

-- The Boy Who Yelled Wolf

-- The Man The Boy and The Donkey

* Roman History: Story Time ESL Listening

-- The Trojan War

-- The Etruscan War

-- Religion in the Roman Republic
-- The Catilinarian Conspiracy
-- Organized Gang Warfare in the Late Roman Republic
-- Mutiny in Pannonia
-- Caligula

Story Time ESL Listening Playlist HERE



ESL Reading Materials--Google Drive Folder HERE