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Resource-Assisted Reading Home     Full Length Graded Read+Listen

Full length texts you can listen to as you read. Click on individual words to review pronunciation (uses TTS text-to-speech on Win/IE) or get/confirm meaning. Save words to word box to collect later or send to Reading-Plus activities.

English Ungraded
    • Call of the Wild
        Real Audio, TTS, Concordance, Dictionary

French Ungraded
    • Boule de Suif
        Real Audio, TTS, Concordance, Dictionary

English Graded
    • Stories
        WMP sound, TTS, Dictionary, & Crossword info-gap for each chapter

Full click-on resources on IE/Windows only; too many files to adapt;
Mac Saf/FF still has story, full recording, and offline activities

Build Your Own (Fr/Eng, Two Formats, Cross-Platform)
    • Hypertext Home

Can RA-Reading help with literacy development? Read the research:

Cobb, T. (2009). "Internet and literacy in the developing world: Delivering the teacher with the text."
In K. Parry (Ed.), Literacy for All in Africa Vol. 2: Reading in Africa: Beyond the School.

Stories from Oxford Bookworms and Cambridge readers; voice recordings by professionals and various students,