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=**Reading **=

Read everything you can get your eyes on !

Reading is number one favourite pastime for Canadians.

 Read to your kids!

 - Kinetic 2/16

(B&B 2015)

Listen for main ideas/ factual details Note taking Infer meaning Get the gist Make inferences Identify register Identify signals for turn-taking, interruption etc. Identify idiomatic expressions Recognize/identify correct sequence Recognize emotion expressed through tone, intonation Recognize context (Who is speaking? Where?)
 * CLB Focused Abilities for Audio Books & Podcasts: **


 * In addition to libraries many sites offer access to free audio of public domain books. These sites include: **

Open Culture www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Lit2Go http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go

LibriVox https://librivox.org

Repeat After Us www.repeatafterus.com

Storyline Online www.storylineonline.net


 * ESL Audio Book Resources: **

ESL Bits ESL Yes http://esl-bits.net

Agenda Web www.agendaweb.org/listening/audio-books.html

ESL Yes http://www.eslyes.com


 * General Podcasts**

Misfits Audio http://misfitsaudio.com/comments

AiringPods www.airingpods.com

NPR www.npr.org/podcasts

Cloud Caster www.cloud-caster.com/PodcastDiscovery/Categories

VOA www.voanews.com/programindex.aspx

CBC http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/

**Shirley's Amazing Reunion: **
My son has always had an amazing bond with elephants since he was a baby and to this day.  Through him, we found this story.  As his father and I were thinking of what he would wish for from Santa. It would probably be to give his 'gift' to the elephants.  Be sure to check out the story of Shirley's amazing reunion with Jenny.  http://www.elephants.com/shirley/shirleyBio.php  - Keen, 11 Dec 2011

In December 2004, a frightened young hippo, separated from his family by a devastating tsunami, bonded with an Aldabra tortoise named Mzee. The 130 year-old tortoise accepted Owen as his own, and an inseparable bond was forged. [|Watch the Documentary] .  Here is an unexpected story and a fun website to share with your children.  http://www.owenandmzee.com/omweb/ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> - Keen, 11 Dec 2011
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Owen & Mzee: the language of friendship **


 * Reading **** Resources **

http://www.readworks.org/


 * [|**Breaking News English**]- a star for complete lessons.
 * [|**News in Levels**] **-** Easy English news, short news, reading skills
 * [|**ESL FAST**]**Super Easy Reading** [|**365 ESL Short Stories**]- | Easy Reading plus listening, vocabulary with clickable definitions, cloze/gap fill and mixed up sentence practice.
 * [|**Simplified English Wikipedia**]
 * **ESL Reading Lessons** - []
 * **Vocabulary profilers:** __ [|LexTutor] __
 * [|Voice of America Special English] – current news stories read slowly with scripts for read along
 * [] - [|Adult education reading resources.] Choose a life area / Help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real -life stories of interest to adults.
 * There is a separate section for teachers- [|For Adult Educators] link
 * T h e B a l d w i n P r o j e c t - [|Classics for Children]
 * [|Mighty Book]
 * [|Children's Storybooks Online] __ – __young readers. Some with audio and animation!

. [|wordsmyth.net], or[|The free Dictionary]

= Ø Canadian focus [|Reading ESL.ca] [|Stories by Su] bject – Simple English with comprehension check, vocabulary and gap fill exercises=

= Ø [|SearchLIT.org Inspired Literature inspiring Literacy]=

= Ø [|Manythings for ESL] - adapted from material produced by the [|Voice of America (VOA)] .=

=Children’s Resources=

= Ø [|Read-along Listening Resources] – meant for public school, but graded and various=

= Ø [|Reading is Fundamental], [|“] [|Micetro] [| Mozart, the Opera House Mouse”], [|Machu Picchu]=

Newcomers Newsletter > The Electronic Newcomers Newsletter from the Mississauga Library System

Dear classmates

Will you join us in reading this beautiful story together and take advantage of the meanings of certain words.

The story’s name is the five people you meet in Heaven

Every week I will write you a summary of what I have read of this story.

Now I will write a summary read last week.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings, but we just don’t know it at the time.

The last hour of Eddie’s life was spent like most of the others, at Ruby Pier, an __amusement__ park by a great gray ocean. The park had the usual attractions, a board-walk, a Ferris wheel, roller coasters, bumper cars, a taffy stand, and an arcade where you could shoot streams of water into a clown’s mouth.

At the time of his death, Eddie was a __squat__, white haired old man, with a short neck, a barrel chest, thick forearms, and a __faded__ army tattoo on his right shoulder.

His legs were thin and __veined__ now, and his left knee, wounded in the war, was ruined by __arthritis__. He used a __cane__ to get around. His face was broad and craggy from the sun, with salty __whiskers__ and a __lower jaw__ that __protruded slightly__, making him __look prouder__ than he felt. He kept a cigarette behind his left ear and a ring of keys hooked to his belt.

Eddie’s job was “maintaining “the rides, which really meant keeping them safe. Every afternoon, he walked the park, checking on each attraction, from the Tilt-A-Whirl to the Pipeline plunge. He looked for broken boards, loose bolts, worn – out steel. Sometimes he would stop, his eyes glazing over, and people walking past thought something was wrong. But he was listening, that’s all. After all these years he could hear trouble, he said, in the spits and stutters and thrumming of the equipment.

Next week will complete reading the larger part of this story. Stable 28-10-2013

//** I loved this small book. Enjoy! - Kamikaze 13/11/07 **//