Reading Material Online
Ielts Reading Material Online
Most students want to improve their reading skills in order to read text they encounter in their daily lives. ProLiteracy's 'Making the Most of Everyday Text' handout ( attached at the bottom of this page) has some great ideas for how to help students do this. Here are some ideas: • Bus schedules • Newsletters from your child's school • Memos from work • Recipes • Song lyrics, poetry, and nursery rhymes • Children's books that your student can then read to his/her child • Pamphlets or other materials received from a doctor's office • Newspapers • We have current and back issues of the News for You newspapers in the. • Literacy Source subscribes to the Seattle Times' Newspapers in Education program.
This service provides ideas and lesson plans for how to use local news articles in your class or tutoring session. Just follow the instructions on the document attached to the bottom of this page.
Kids Reading Material Online
• Check out the from the New York Times for an online newspaper that is written in simple English so it's easy to read. • For low-level readers, have your student tell you a story. As they tell the story, you write it, and then have them read it back to you. This is called the Language Experience Approach. For more information, see page 52 in your Literacy NOW Teaching English Language Learners handbook.
You can also read this. Find out about your student's reading history and expectations. In addition to the student's reading level, it's important to hear from the student about his/her experiences with reading.