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This site looks like a real find! You can see a range of topics, and from here, you have various options. I clicked on the text example, which has a recording of the reading. There is some kind of animation that flashes on each word as it is being read. Definitely worth further investigation.

A very inclusive website seemingly geared toward students middle school and above or adults become better readers. The site could benefit native and non-native language learners. In the "reading" portion, One can choose from colorful icons, graphics and words to start - enticing users to click and find out more. Tutorials provide information and practice on every aspect of life.

Not a TESL site, but this seems like a great resource, so I'll postit here. As far as I can tell, this site if free for educators. Following is the description provided by the site: "Using Bookshare® is simple. You can search for a specific title or browse through the library and its special collections, including newspapers and magazines. With a Bookshare membership, you can download accessible titles onto your computer or read them with a variety of reading tools that give you a range of options. To enhance your web experience, you can take advantage of the site's accessibility features."

You may already have heard about this huge project from Google - the Ngram Viewer - an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture, but there are some improvements.  The corpus is mind-boggling lare - 20 million books, and not just in English.  Plus the words have been tagged with their parts of speech.  There are some other functions that let you narrow in on particular groups of words...it seems to have some concordancer functions.  Well, you can read this article to learn more.

I have been reading Larry Ferlazzo's revies of his best posts over the years and looking over some of the ones that are still active. This one, Culture Crossing, seems to have some great inf about cultural differences (and also exploring our own cultures). A lot of potential here, I think

Interesting view on phonics...there are several other links here with more info about this method of teaching reading.

This certainly looks like some very interesting research! Read the title to see what this is about. The source is the Harvard Business Review.

Well, this is a very opportune article!  If you want to know why I like Diigo so much, just read this article!

This site is a treasure trove of NNS of English reading a short text. Each text includes a narrow transcription. There is an amazing range of languages available (and for some more than one speech sample).

Posted: Print Article This morning as I helped my son organize his bookshelf I asked him a question that came over me as I looked over his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series on his shelf, "What books did you enjoy most while in 6th and 7th grade?"

This collection, though older, provides a collection of sites to/for thinking, search engines, references for research, games, core subjects: math, science, reading, writing, arts, history, and educational activities for those who cannot travel the world.