Reading

Top Sites
 

American Culture and Customs Excellent free online ESL reading materials
 
A Young Couple's Life in the USA A novel written to help English learners understand various aspects of 
American life
 
365 Short Essays for ESL Learners ONE SHORT ESSAY A DAY, YOUR ENGLISH WILL BE GREAT! The best ESL reading materials online! Free for everyone to use
 
100 Free Short Stories Practice answering yes/no questions, wh- questions, asking questions, and dictation
 
100 Essays: America Is Great Essays written for ESL students to practice reading
 
This is America Mini-novels describing people's life in the United States
 
The 100 American People You Should Know Essays on 100 well-known American people for English learners to read

For Beginners
 
Start Reading for Children (1) Simple present tense, 50 words per passage for children to start reading
 
Start Reading for Children (2) 100 more 50-word passages for kids to improve English through reading
 
Start Reading for Children (3) 100 longer reading passages to increase children's English level
 
English for Children (1) 100 short stories (50 words each), simple present tense, with Audio
 
English for Children (2) 125 easy short stories for children to practice reading and listening
 
English Level 1 Simple present tense, 50-word essays for beginners + audio & exercises
 
English Level 2 100-word essays for beginners + audio & exercises
 
English Level 3 Short essays for beginners + audio & exercises
 
English Level 4 More short essays for beginners + audio & exercises
 
English Level 5 200-word essays for beginners + audio & exercises
 
Super Easy Reading for ESL Beginners 1 100 short stories (50 words each), simple present tense, + Audio
 
Super Easy Reading 2 51 essays (100 words each), easy to understand
 
Short Stories for Beginners (1) 200 Short Stories + Audio & Exercises for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening
 
Short Stories for Beginners (2) 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening
 
Super Easy Reading 200 easy stories for beginners. Some stories are the same as the stories in the Short Stories for Beginners
 
Easy Reading 200 easy stories for beginners. Some stories are the same as the stories in the Short Stories for Beginners
 
Star Fall A free public service to motivate children to read with phonics

Learning Strategies  
Key to College Success About 10 pages of sincere advice about how to be successful in American college
 
Study Skills Guides Time management, notetaking, test taking, active listening, stress management, researching, and memorization
 
Study Skills & Strategies Top resources for FREE information on study skills, study strategies
 
Study Skills for Students Study skills checklist, 10 habits of highly successful students
 
How to Learn English Covers motivation, dictionaries, pronunciation, input, and more
 
Educational Articles Articles on a variety of topics for students of all ages

History and Culture
 
America, the Story of US An epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented
 
Holidays in the U.S.A Description of all the holidays from January to December
 
Biography Reading biographies, watching interviews and video clips
 
Presidents of the United States of America Biographies of 43 USA Presidents
 
50 States of the United States Introduction to all the 50 states. Also learn the pronunciation of names of the states
 
Introduction to the United States of America Online Culture Lessons by Paul Sparks
 
Bible Gateway All different versions of the Bible in English and other languages, in text or pdf format
 
Movie Guides Detailed synopses of popular movies with an extensive glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references
 
This Day in History A short passage each day describing a historical event in American history

Dictionaries
 
Cambridge International Dictionary An excellent online dictionary for English learners with simple definitions, example sentences, pronunciation, and translation
 
Longman Dictionary The quickest and easiest way to look up any word, simple and clear definitions for English learners to understand
 
Dictionary.com The largest free online dictionary with definitions and pronunciation
 
A Picture Dictionary Learning vocabulary by seeing the image and hearing the pronunciation
 
Acronym Finder The world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations

Quotes
 
Proverbs by Subjects The most popular proverbs in different categories
 
The Quotations Page The largest and oldest Quotations Page on the Web with about 30 categories
 
Finest Quotes A huge collection of inspirational quotes, thoughts of greatestminds of history
 
Literature Quotes Quotations from the great works of literature
 
Inspirational Quotes Read quotes and sayings from famous people in history
 
Einstein Quotes Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

Public Domain Books
 
The Baldwin Project Bring Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children
 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer An adaptation of a Mark Twain classic, appropriate for low-intermediate to intermediate learners
 
Public Domain Books Free books from a variety of different authors

Jokes
 
Jokes in English With text and mp3 audio from manythings.org
 
Using Jokes and Humor to Learn English A great way to increase your vocabulary!
 
Jokes Collection Jokes submitted by ESL/EFL instructors at iteslj.org for classroom use

Award-winning Essays
 
Impossible Puzzles By William W. L. Li, an MIT graduate, who came to the United States at seven. He wrote this award-winning essay when he was thirteen
 
How Has Technology Improved My Life The essay written by Yilin Wang from Arcadia High School won the Best ESL Essay Award at CATESOL 2015 Annual Conference