A resourse for teaching reading to young learners

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A resource for young learners to develop reading skills.

This resource offers a good variety of using authentic stories in teaching young learners.

http://abralite.concordia.ca/

You can access ABRACADABRA'S stories via Genres, or Themes. ABRACADABRA has two features that are invaluable for readers and teachers: with the use of the "birdie" icon, the computer can read the page that is on the screen; also, students can click on individual words for phonetic sounding out and sight word help.

Genres:

ABRACADABRA helps expose children to different text types such as: Folk and Fairy Tales, Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Multicultural stories.

Themes:

ABRACADABRA offers stories of varying themes: Places and Spaces, Foods, Animals, Numbers and Colors, Seasons and I am Special.

http://abralite.concordia.ca/pd/en/story2.pdf

This link will bring you to a colourful illustrated story “I can move like a..”

Every line has a picture which helps young readers to understand and associate the story with a picture.

If you go to the resourses for the teachers you’ll find more.