READING AND SUMMARIZING WEBSITES

News:

NY Times News Summaries
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/index.html
Here is an index to short current news stories.
Notes about using this website
High Intermediate (CCSF 140 and up; used in 150 lab)
 

CNN Website  (Western/Pacific Literacy Network)
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf
You can find current and past CNN news stories. Read them in the abridged for full version. You can view story outlines and there are numerous useful activities, a multimedia component, and related links for stories. (Reading and Writing)
Lesson (computer skills)
Other lesson ideas
 

CNNfyi--Student Mainpage
http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/index.html
This website includes several daily news stories. Some nice features are:  a simple online dictionary, "in context," which tells students the background for the story in simple English, and related websites.
High Intermediate (CCSF 140)
 

General Reading:
 

The Case: Solve-it:  Weekly Series
http://MysteryNet.com/thecase/solveit
Read a weekly mystery about a crime, and guess who did it! You can also read and post comments.
Intermediate (CCSF 130 and up)
Lesson
 
 

English to Go:  Free Weekly Internet Lesson
http://www.english-to-go.com/tolesson.htm
You can get a free reading lesson every week at this website.  You need a paid subscription to use the rest of the site.

ESL Cafe Web Guide:  Literature
http://www.eslcafe.com/search/Literature/
This is a page of links from Dave's ESL Cafe.  Note:  I didn't find any good links until I scrolled down to Children's Literature.  See if you can find any other good links on this webpage.

Reading about science:

Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com
This website includes short articles about science.  Some of the vocabulary is somewhat difficult because it is scientific.
For shorter articles follow their link to News in Brief.

The Why Files
http://whyfiles.org/index.htm
This website is similar to Scientific American.  It also includes Story Maps so that you can see a short outline of each article.

The following websites are for more advanced levels of reading:
 

Interesting Things to Read for ESL students on the Web

http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/readinglist.html
A fantasic website with links to websites, electronic books, and magazines that would be interesting to ESL students.
 
The On-Line Books Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
This is another great website with links to hundreds of online books.
 

The following websites are for lower levels (CCSF 110 and up)
Interactive Learning Resources
http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/education/
Go to this website and click for the current Feature Story.  You will find a story, and many exercises.