Online Reading Skills

Links verified on 11/14/11

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 - Includes the above mini-stories with cloze exercises, but also has speed reading exercises and lessons for extensive reading, science reading, reading/listening and a text adventure game.
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 - (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 there's 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.
• Aesop's Fables - Online fables, some are audio - Short reading passages with a moral to analyze.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - An unabridged, dramatic audio production in RealAudio™ Directed and Narrated by Karen Chan.
• Author Index - Search for online books by author.
• Chapter Books Online - Many classic novels online with tools to help students read online.
• Classic Short Stories - Online text of some short story classics.
• Folktale of the Month - Selection of books plus an index of recent selections.
• The Online Books Page - Listing over 1 million books free on the web; search by the listings, author, title or subject.
• Poetry 180 - A list of poems and authors.
• Short Fiction - From the EServer Collection.
• Short Story of the Day - A different story each day; many classics. [New as of 11/14/11]
• Short Stories - Alphabetical listing plus reader favorites of many American Literature short stories. [New as of 11/14/11]