Reading

Welcome!

Here you will find selected links to online explanations, exercises, quizzes, tools, and resources that you can work on on your own.

If you are interested in improving your skills and would like to explore on your own, click on any of the links below to see what might help you the most.

General Reading and Pre-Reading Strategies

• http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/617.htm
  Cuesta College's "Clues to Finding Main Ideas" with links to many other reading strategies.

• http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/609.htm
  How to maximize comprehension by marking your texts.

• http://www.studygs.net/reading_essays.htm
  How to read an essay (or an article or chapter)

• http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/essays.html
  How to read a difficult book

• http://www.dmacc.edu/instructors/smwickham/spdrding.htm
  Course on speed reading with links for vocabulary and reading and study aids

• http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/index.asp
  The Resource Room: vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises

• http://cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbook /seyler_ab/
  (click "Select a Topic" mid-page for exercise sets).  Allyn & Bacon Reading Skills: A variety of vocabulary and reading exercises

• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/570/pulp/hemp11.htm                                Critical Reading Exercises: A variety of critical reading exercises.

Textbook Reading Strategies

• http://www.studygs.net/#Reading
  Great reading techniques, available in many languages
  
  
• http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdyhlp.html
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Study Skills Self-help Information
  
  
• http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/reading.html
  Reading Comprehension Strategies
  
  
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/reading.html
  Dartmouth's Reading Your Textbooks Effectively

Chapters, Articles and Stories for Practice

You may want to print pages from this site so you can take notes and mark as you read:

• http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
  Click on a category, choose a story, then click on "story". Read the story, then choose vocabulary and comprehension activies.

Vocabulary

Knowledge and skills play a big part in reading comprehension. To work on your vocabulary, see the links in Vocabulary.