Online Reading Skills

Links verified on 8/11/09

1. Mini-Stories with Cloze Reading Passages: Ten minute timed quizzes - Story 1 || Story 2 || Story 3 || Story 4 || Story 5 || Story 6 || Story 7 || Story 8
2. Online Lessons - Cloze exercises, speed reading and more
3. Practice Reading - [not interactive] Two 7th grade passages to read and answer questions about, When finished, print the page and give it to your teacher.
4. Reading Comprehension Online Quizzes - Choose one of the nine lessons from the left frame and test your reading comprehension (ignore the foreign characters, this is the right page).
5. Science Reading Practice - Each paragraph is on a different screen and some of the difficult words are defined. After reading the article, you can take a short vocabulary quiz.
6. Speed Reading Test Online - When you are ready, click on the Start button. Read all the way to the bottom and then click on the Done button. You will get a report of your reading speed.
7. Books to Read Online - No quiz is available from the links below, but you can find books to read online.
8. Aesop's Fables - Online fables, some are audio - Short reading passages with a moral to analyze.
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - An unabridged, dramatic audio production in RealAudio™ Directed and Narrated by Karen Chan
10. Author Index - search for online books by author
11. A Chapter a Day - Books online divided up into chapters with vocabulary words for the chapter and quotes. Many classical novels here.
12. Chapter Books On-line - Many classic novels online with tools to help students read on line.
13. Classic Short Stories - online text of some of the short story classics.
14. Folktale of the Month - selection plus an index of recent selections
15. The On-line Books Page - You may search by author, title, or subject.
16. Poetry 180 - a list of poems and authors
17. Short Fiction on the Carnegie Mellon University English server.