Links and podcasts to ESL English reading material. The stories all come with exercises.
My English Pages has a very long list of things to read, with questions to answer. Try it! Click here
Podcasts
- 12 English Podcasts Every English Learner Should Listen To | FluentU English
- Listen to English – learn English! – The podcast website for people learning English
- TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links – ESL : Listening : Podcasts
- TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links – ESL : Listening : Podcasts
- US Citizenship Podcast Large resource for citizenship prep, quizzes, booklets, audio, reading
Read
- 1,600 Free ESL short stories
- 100 Free ESL Short Stories for Beginners – Present Tense, 50 Words, Exercises, Audio
- 100 Free ESL Short Stories for Beginners–2, Present Tense, 50 Words, Exercises, Audio
- 365 Free ESL short stories – Intermediate Intermediate Stories + Audio + 3 Exercises: Cloze, Crossword, Dictation
- Aesop's Fables A large collection of fables
- American Folklore: Famous American folktales, tall tales, myths and legends, ghost stories, and more. This folklore site contains retellings of folktales, myths, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, weather lore, and ghost stories from all over the Americas.
- EasyEnglish Bible | Bible
- Elementary | English e-books free literature to download free
- English e-books | free, for learning English GRADED READERS EBOOKS – BEST CHOICE TO LEARN ENGLISH. DOWNLOAD EBOOKS FOR YOUR DEVICE FOR FREE!
- English news and easy articles for students of English News and reading passages on history, sports, nature, etc.
- English news and easy articles for students of English News and reading passages on history, sports, nature, etc.
- English Online – Articles in Easy Understandable English for Learners
- ESL – English as a Second Language -Rong Chang Tons of stuff, reading levels with activities, links, grammar, etc.
- ESL – English as a Second Language -Rong Chang Tons of stuff, reading levels with activities, links, grammar, etc.
- ESL English Language Learning – Adult Literacy – Listening
- ESL Fast – A free online English learning resource note leveled reading material, sentence structure - important source
- ESL Reading Worksheets – Short Stories – Free Characters facing everyday problems, PDF, T/F Q's, and writing prompts.
- Explore the States
- Fairy Tales for Kids including Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen | Speakaboos
- Famous People English Lessons: Biographies and ESL Lesson Plans Reading passage with MP3. PDF and execises
- free ebooks easy english – Google Search
- Hans Christian Andersen – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- History of North America – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- interactive stories Very short stories - interactive elements, things to do while reading.
- Literary Resources for English Students The list includes novels, drama, short stories and poetry
- Meet Amazing Americans
- Reading | EnglishClub
- Reading Comprehension Resources for EFL and ESL Learners
- Short Stories | EnglishClub
- short stories at east of the web large collection and variety of short stories
- Stories for children, folktales, fairy tales and fables Huge site with international folk stories
- Super Easy Reading for ESL Beginners
- Test Your English Reading Level | EnglishClub
- The 100 American People You Should Know Short essays
- The Chinese Fairy Book
- The Complete Hans Christian Andersen All of the stories by Hans Christian Anderson
- The EP Book Spot several graded online primers for reading
- Topic-based reading lesson plans | Onestopenglish
- U.S. News Most daily news stories are very short and easy reading.