ESL reading comprehension is important for all English learners. To understand the basics of everyday life—from newspapers to job applications—a person will need to gain adequate English reading skills.
Ever wonder how fast or slow you read? Here's a reading timing test. Careful, it's not just about reading the words; there are three comprehension questions to answer as well.
Here's a good website to practice your reading. There is a short story a day that you can LISTEN to as you read (just hit the play button on the top of the page.) At the bottom of the page there are vocabulary and various other exercises for each story.
Become familiar with the vocabulary about daily activities, the dentist's office, hair salon, etc. as you listen and read these short articles.
Now here's an interesting site; you can read the news, while having it read to you, in three different levels of difficulty. Try it in Level 1, then notice the differences in Level 2 and 3.
Another website that offers reading and listening about several interesting topics can be found here:
If you are interested in folk tales, fairy tales, even ghost stories, this is the site for you. It doesn't have listening with it but has comments by previous readers:
Enjoy reading? Here's a website that features short stories. You can sign up for a short story a day sent to your email:
For those of you who like to read a book but don't have the time, how about it being read to you? This website shows the story in print while it is read to you. Check it out!
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