Resources

What is “out there” for use in your ER program

Free downloadable materials

• ESL Reading
  

  Kieran McGovern’s site with free graded reading materials

• Reading Resources Repository
  

  Maintained by John Paul Loucky

Self-study materials for learners

• www.extensivereading.co.uk

Determining reader levels

• The ERF Graded reader scale – Introduction
  

  Developed by Rob Waring

• The current version of the ERF Graded reader level chart
• The EPER Scale (from JALT ’98 handout on David Hill’s work)

Evaluation of materials

• Graded (Basal) Readers — Choosing The Best
• Online extensive reading opportunities for lower-level learners of EFL/ESL
  

  by Ken Schmidt, TESL-EJ, Vol. 4.1

• Ken’s students’ evaluations of graded readers
• Authentic Books Rated Highly by My Students
  

  by Yoko Morimoto

• Tom’s students’ evaluations of authentic materials

Links to publishers’ material for extensive reading

• Black Cat – CIDEB
• Cambridge University Press
  

  “…an exciting new series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English.”

• Cengage/Heinle
  

  Publishers of the Foundations, Footprint and Page Turner Series

• E-books World

World Wide Readers (E-books) edited by Brian Tomlinson & Alan Maley

• Easy Readers
• Helbling Languages
• Macmillan (Heinemann)
  

  The site includes free downloadable worksheets for their titles

• Oxford
  

  Contains useful info: “What are graded readers”, “How are readers graded?”, “Some ideas for using graded readers” and “Setting up a class library”.

• Penguin
  

  Contains downloadable teacher’s notes and worksheets in PDF format

• Renaissance Learning
  

  Features the “Accelerated Reader” system with computerized quizzes and record tracking for over 22,000 titles.

• Richmond Publishing
  

  Offers free graded readers downloadable as PDF files

• SRA Reading Labs
  

  Not “extensive reading material” per se but often used in conjunction with extensive reading programs

• See Rob Waring’s page for some other possibilities

To evaluate your students’ extensive reading

“MoodleReader” has been designed to allow students to prove that they have read their books via a short 10-item quiz. Students have their own personal screen with a “stamp collection” of the covers of the books that they have successfully passed quizzes on. The site is accessible free of charge and provides a downloadable Excel file showing your students’ performance. Quizzes are available on more than 1200 books. The interface requires no technological expertise on the part of either the teacher or student.