Kim Oliver ESOL Web Links
Tech up your teaching! Every good teacher knows that the resources outside the classroom are as important as those inside for students to improve their mastery of the English language! The internet is now a gold mine of resources, but some are more helpful than others! So I have created a page with the best of the best web resources available for ESL teachers and students.
English Club reading
http://www.englishclub.com/reading/index.htm
Short Stories, quizzes, authors, etc.
Many Things American Stories
http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/
Not only are there full texts of American short stories here, but you can listen to them or download them as MP3's.
Voice of America American Stories
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/z/1581
Simplified short stories text plus audio. Vocabulary lists and teacher lessons
Loud Lit
This site has short stories, novels, poetry and children's books with text and web and MP3 sound to accompany.
Short stories
https://www.mrswatersenglish.com/2014/05/40-excellent-short-stories-for-middle-school/
The site says "for middle school", but most of them are very appropriate for intermediate and advanced ESOL students
American English Simplified short stories
https://americanenglish.state.gov/list-publications
This is a link to a list on which you can find simplified short stories by O. Henry, Poe, Twain, Crane and London. most have text, text with audio and classroom activities