CAMBODIA YOUTH

Reading Strategies

Main Idea - How to find the main idea in a text Reading Strategies - many strategies for better reading comprehension

Elementary - Lower Intermediate

Listen and Read Along - this site has many 'read and listen' stories, some of which are sentence-by-sentence; many easy listenings ESL Lounge Reading - some nice easy readings with exercises Reading Comprehension, Grammar and Summary Quick, 5-minute readings - with a few simple questions CDLP Online - Easy news stories with Vocabulary and Comprehension - lots of different readings here; you can listen as you read along

Intermediate

Bangkok Post - News stories with Vocabulary - the home page is here Culture Shock - A reading about culture shock with Vocabulary, Metaphor, Denotation and Connotation OUC - Takako's Great Adventure Reading a newspaper - the Bangkok Post offers some ideas on how newspaper stories are constructed and how to read them; a useful site Literacynet.org - CNN News Stories with questions

Upper Intermediate - Advanced

BBC - BBC news stories with Vocabulary and Audio Words in the news: from BBC Learning English website Short readings - there are some 340 short (500-600 words) readings here with 5 comprehension questions (and answers!) New York Times - Comprehension quiz based on New York Times stories