FINDING AND USING READING MATERIALS LYNN W ZIMMERMAN, PHD.

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FINDING AND USING READING MATERIALS LYNN W ZIMMERMAN, PHD

EXTENSIVE READING Reading for pleasure Project Gutenberg ( Bartleby ( Bibliomannia ( Online Books Page (digital.library.upenn.edu/books)digital.library.upenn.edu/books Good Reads (

READING COMPREHENSION FOR EXAMS Exam sites such as TOEFL, CAE and IELTS have texts with interactive practice tests that students can use to practice reading comprehension. Flo-Joe ( ready-made reading quizzes and passages of text with exercises. Various levels Various topics. Include strategies and procedures for dealing with texts

ONLINE NEWSPAPER SITES Many are free. Back issues are archived Can search using keywords Can print, copy, paste, and save to your computer Many can be used effectively in the classroom either online or offline

NEWSPAPER EXAMPLES The Sun Daily Telegraph The Australian Daily Times Nigeria USA Today

ONLINE NEWSPAPER PORTALS Yahooligans!, a child-oriented website Newspapershttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/News/ Newspapers Newseum Click Front pageswww.newseum.org/cybernewseum Free Online Newspapers.com list.htmlhttp:// list.html

CREATE YOUR OWN NEWSPAPER Crayon.net A tool for managing news sources Create a customized newspaper with links to predefined news sources automatically connects to the newspapers of one’s choice extracts news stories from them

CHILDREN’S E-ZINES EEK: Environmental Education for Kids (Ages 9-14) Midlink Magazine (Ages 8-18) Stone Soup Magazine (Ages 8-13) Scholastic News (Ages 8-14) WireTap (Ages 14 and up)

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP ACTIVITY In pairs, choose one of these art museum websites to visit The Louvre ( – choose Englishwww.louvre.fr The National Gallery ( The Art Institute of Chicago ( The Uffizi Gallery ( The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (

INSTRUCTIONS In pairs, visit one of these websites. Look at information for visitng the museum, and record the hours for a Sunday visit and the cost for 1 adult. Then locate a famous piece of art at the museum. Fill out the chart with the required information. Using the information in the chart, write a word paragraph describing your “trip” to the museum and the piece of art you chose. Post on Facebook.

REFERENCE Krajka, J. (2007). English language teaching in the Internet- assisted environment. Lublin, Poland: Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univeristy Press.