Online Reading Skills

Links verified on 12/19/11

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 - In addition to the above cloze exercises, speed reading, science readings and other extensive reading exercises are available.
3. Practice Reading - [Not Interactive] Two 8th grade passages to read and answer questions about. When finished, print the page and give it to your teacher.
4. Reading Comprehension Online Quizzes - (Ignore the foreign characters, this is the right page). Choose one of the nine lessons from the left frame and test your reading comprehension.
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.

Books to Read Online - No quiz is available at the links below, but you can find books to read online.

1. Aesop's Fables - Online fables, some are audio - Short reading passages with a moral to analyze.
2. Alex's Catalogue of Electronic Texts - Search for online books by author, title or keywords.
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - An unabridged, dramatic audio production in RealAudio™ Directed and Narrated by Karen Chan.
4. Classic Short Stories - A listing of online short story classics by author. Word count provided for each book.
5. Folktales - Choose from the selection provided by Mike's Random Folktales.
6. Index of Stories - By Cleve Books. Enjoy "Great Reading on LIne" (GRoL) and choose from the many classic novels available, some with tools to help students read online.
7. Literary Classics and Short Stories - Search by author, book title or enjoy the "Short Story of the Day."
8. The Online Books Page - Listing over 1 million free books on the Web that can be searched by author, title, or subject.
9. Poetry 180 - A poem a day for the American high schools. A list of poems and authors.
10. Short Fiction - From the Eserver Collection.