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American Literature Classics Library
This site contains the full texts of hundreds of classic novels. Each book is divided up into chapters with vocabulary learning possibilities and quotes for each chapter. -
Anoka County Library
With a library card and a PIN number, you can request your favorite books through this website and pick them up at your convenience when they have been collected for you. Look under the "Kids" and "Teens" tabs for recommended reading, Homework Rescue, and information regarding colleges, universities and financial aid. -
Hennepin County Library
Look under the "Teens" tab for a teen reader forum, teen reading lists, and free tutoring through Brainfuse.
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Reading Comprehension
TV411 has a large number of short videos of real people utilizing reading strategies in the real world. A police officer explains how he uses summarizing in his work, a voter explains to to critically read a campaign poster, a pharmacist gives advice about reading medicine labels and prescription instructions. Accessible to all, but focused on adolescent readers. -
Reading Practice
Online passages and questions for many strategic reading concepts such as utilizing context clues, paraphrasing, and detecting bias. Wonderful site for middle and high school students. -
Reading Practice Tests
Cengage Learning provides a large number of reading practice tests at a variety of levels. -
Reading Skills
LiteracyNET contains current news stories with an outline and abridged version for each story. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, or view the broadcast through streaming video. -
Reading Skills
Reading for Thinking provides online practice with a variety of skills from paraphrasing to detecting bias. -
Short Stories
My Hero is a multimedia journal where people of all ages share stories about the heroes in their life. -
Short Stories
Classic Short Stories contains a listing of short stories by author with a word count for each story. -
Themed Booklists
All About Adolescent Literacy has themed booklists to help find books that suit both teens' interests and reading abilities.