1. FINDING AND USING READING MATERIALS LYNN W ZIMMERMAN, PHD

2. EXTENSIVE READING Reading for pleasure Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org)www.gutenberg.org Bartleby (www.bartleby.com)www.bartleby.com Bibliomannia (www.bibliomania.com)www.bibliomania.com Online Books Page (digital.library.upenn.edu/books)digital.library.upenn.edu/books Good Reads (www.goodreads.com)www.goodreads.com

3. 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 (www.flo-joe.co.uk)www.flo-joe.co.uk ready-made reading quizzes and passages of text with exercises. Various levels Various topics. Include strategies and procedures for dealing with texts

4. 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

5. NEWSPAPER EXAMPLES The Sun www.thesun.co.ukwww.thesun.co.uk Daily Telegraph www.telegraph.co.okwww.telegraph.co.ok The Australian www.australian.com.auwww.australian.com.au Daily Times Nigeria http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/ http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/ USA Today www.usatoday.comwww.usatoday.com

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

7. 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

8. CHILDREN’S E-ZINES EEK: Environmental Education for Kids (Ages 9-14) www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/index.htm Midlink Magazine (Ages 8-18) www.cs.ucf.edu/~Midlink Stone Soup Magazine (Ages 8-13) www.stonesoup.com/index.html Scholastic News (Ages 8-14) http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews WireTap (Ages 14 and up) www.alternet.org/wiretap

9. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP ACTIVITY In pairs, choose one of these art museum websites to visit The Louvre (www.louvre.fr) – choose Englishwww.louvre.fr The National Gallery (www.nationalgallery.org.uk)www.nationalgallery.org.uk The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu)www.artic.edu The Uffizi Gallery (www.uffizi.firenze.it)www.uffizi.firenze.it The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (www.moma.org)www.moma.org

10. 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 75-125 word paragraph describing your “trip” to the museum and the piece of art you chose. Post on Facebook.

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