This resource provides over 360 short stories in both written and audio versions. Each story is followed by language activities such as vocabulary, crossword, dictation and reading comprehension.
Language Forms & Functions: N/A
Language Skills: Reading
- Understand and acquire ideas and information from the text
- Employ contextual and syntactic clues to deduce meaning of unknown words
Listening
- Use audio clues (tone, volume), contextual clues and knowledge of the world to work out the meaning of simple spoken texts
- Listen for main ideas and extract specific information from spoken texts
User Tips: - Teachers may select stories to suit their students' abilities and interests. Ask them to complete the activities provided after reading or listening to the stories.
- Students could practise reading aloud by imitating the narrators in the audio version of the stories.
- Encourage students to read the stories on a daily basis so as to build up their reading habit.
