Reading Stories
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Extensive reading helps ESL learners practise and obtain deeper knowledge of the language items and skills which they can use to make sense of content in their core learning areas.
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Extensive reading, if taken seriously and interpreted in entirety, can encourage ESL learners to read for enjoyment. The ultimate aim of extensive reading is to build reading fluency and to deepen learners' knowledge of language items to get a better sense of how these items fit together communicatively. This allows them to process language faster and improve their comprehension.
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With this in mind, the Reading Stories section aims to:
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foster love for reading
build reading fluency and vocabulary
promote confidence, motivation, enjoyment
make learners more effective language users
lower any anxieties about language learning
by Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter
The room was warm, the curtains were closed, the two table lamps were lit. On the cupboard behind her there were two glasses and some drinks. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work...
by Aleksandra-Dokurno
The Brothers Who Met Poverty
Jonek, despite being a diligent and compassionate man, had no such luck. He toiled in the fields but his crops did not yield very much come harvest time. The wheat that did grow was soon beaten down by angry storms and merciless winds, and his cattle were plagued by disease and hunger...
by Ruskin Bond
The Eyes Have It
As I was totally blind at the time, my eyes sensitive only to light and darkness, I was unable to tell what the girl looked like. But I knew she wore slippers from the way they slapped against her heels...
by Ray Bradbury
The Flying Machine
Early on the morning of the first day of the first week of the second month of the new year, Emperor Yuan was sipping tea and fanning himself against a warm breeze when a servant ran across the scarlet and blue garden tiles, calling, "Oh, Emperor, Emperor, a miracle!"
by H. H. Munro
The Open Window
"My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the meantime you must try and put up with me."
by Amy Tan
The Red Candle
I was sitting in my mother’s hot sticky arms. I was waving my hand to catch a colourful paper bird in front of me. And then the paper bird flew away and in front of me were two ladies. They were looking at my face without talking. One lady had a painted face that was melting...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Speckled Band
It was early in April in the year 1883 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser but the clock showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven...
by Giacomo Puccini
The Three Riddles
The Sultan’s’ army was brutal and huge, and everyone in Astrakhan, including the young Prince, fled for their lives. The prince’s only comfort in exile was his determination that someday he would return and reclaim his kingdom...
by J.K. Rowling
The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
Upon the father’s death, the son found hidden inside the old cooking pot a small
package bearing his name. He opened it, hoping for gold, but found instead a soft,
thick slipper, much too small to wear, and with no pair...
by Amy Tan
Without Wood
I used to believe everything my mother said, even when I did not know what she meant. Once when I was little, she told me she knew it would rain because lost ghosts were circling near our windows, calling to be let in...
by Brothers Grimm
Snow White
Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, "If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame."