Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Reading Sites for ELL


The sites on this list, The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers, can be helpful to beginning and early intermediate English Language Learners, as well as to younger native-English speakers. They provide them with accessible and high-interest text. All the sites, except for one, have “talking stories” that show images and provide audio support to the text. The images and audio provide a high-degree of accessibility. Larry ranks eleven sites, with only one not being free. He suggests that the $60 yearly subscription for that one would be well spent. He also estimates that there are well over five hundred high-quality stories, including fiction and nonfiction, contained in these eleven sites. These sites provide countless online reading activities to supplement the texts as well.

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