ESL Reading Activities

Here are some links to online sources where you can find ESL reading activities for ESL students and teachers

ESL Flow contains topical ESL reading lesson plans and teaching ideas, plus lessons and exercises for reading students
ESL Wonderland contains reading activities such as timed reading activities. For example, students can click on the "Start" link to begin reading the relevant article. The student can fill in the answers to questions about the article, along with their name and email address, and then submit their answers. The timed activity allows the student ten minutes to read and answer the questions. The remaining time appears in the status bar at the bottom of the window.
ESL Galaxy offers printable pdf exercises to teach reading comprehension. The most popular type of these exercises is their text mazes that work like magic in teaching students how to read. Text mazes hide text as in a maze and this encourages the students to read while solving the maze. At the end of the activity, the site has comprehension questions to go with these exercises.
Stories and readings for ESL students are available at CCFS
5 Minute English contains links to reading comprehension quizzes and activities covering a wide variety of interesting topics. For example, they offer "Take a Bath" which is a reading comprehension test related to bathing; "Summer Solstice" which is a reading activity related to the summer solstice; "Test Taking Skills" which requires students to read about test taking skills; "Improving Your English" which is a reading about improving English; "Friendship," which is all about friendship; April Fool's Day which talks about this fun April Holiday; "The Travel Bug," which is travel focused; and "English Around the World" which allows students to read about speaking English in various parts of the world.
Primary School.com contains links to reading games and activities online
EFL Lessons and Lesson Plans offers teaching ideas for reading activities as well as links to readings and stories online.
At EL Civics each worksheet includes a short paragraph about an everyday problem a character can face, a true-false exercise, a writing prompt, and a black and white image. These reading activities are presented in pdf format and you should be able to download them quickly. Teachers can read the stories to the class before assigning them the writing exercises to test their comprehension. Examples of short stories include Father's Day Gift, Fireman, Flag of the United States, the Grand Canyon, and Household Chores.
This website with ESL/EFL teaching resources contains links to reading comprehension activities and games. The links on the site have over 1000 activities to help ESL students do self-study. The website also has quizzes and stories for reading.
At American Folklore.net you can practice reading English with their ESL short stories from American folklore, retold by S.E. Schlosser. Some short stories have an ESL listening component.
English English.com provides links to some of the best English quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you improve your reading skills. Activities and quizzes range in difficulty from elementary up to advanced and contain a variety of activities. Some also contain audio versions of the story for you to listen to.
World English contains links to reading exercises and quizzes
At ESL Monkeys, you can learn English by using and reading news articles, finding a wide range of reading material for almost any purpose. Activities are designed to build reading comprehension, as well as to be vocabulary builders, and conversation starters.
Teach English in Asia provides ESL games to practice reading skills
English Club contains links to English short stories from Classic Literature to help improve your reading skills

ESL Reading Activities

ESL Reading Activities

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