Top Sites

• English for New Immigrants in the USA What new immigrants need to know in the United States

• American Culture and Customs Excellent free online ESL reading materials

• A Young Couple's Life in the USA An ESL novel to help you learn various aspects of American life

• 365 Short Essays For ESL learners who want to finish English study within a year

• 100 Free Short Stories Practice answering yes/no, wh- questions, and dictation

• 100 Essays: America Is Great For ESL students to practice reading and learn about America

• This is America Mini-novels describing American life

• The 100 American People To introduce 100 well-known American people to English learners

• Start Reading for Children (1) Simple present tense, 50-word passages for children to start reading

• Start Reading for Children (2) 100 more 50-word passages for kids to improve English through reading

• Start Reading for Children (3) 100 longer reading passages to increase children's English level

• English for Children (1) 100 short stories (50 words each), simple present tense, with audio

• English for Children (2) 125 easy short stories for children to practice reading and listening

• English Level 1 Simple present tense, 50-word passages for beginners + audio & exercises

• English Level 2 Short passages for beginners + audio & exercises

• English Level 3 Short essays for beginners + audio & exercises

• English Level 4 More short essays for beginners + audio & exercises

• English Level 5 200-word essays for beginners + audio & exercises

• English Level 6 250-word essays for beginners + audio & exercises

• Super Easy Reading 1 100 short stories (50 words each), simple present tense, + audio

• Super Easy Reading 2 51 essays (100 words each), easy to understand

• Short Stories for Beginners (1) 200 short stories + audio & exercises for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening

• Short Stories for Beginners (2) 200 more easy stories for ESL/EFL beginners to practice reading and listening

• Super Easy Reading 200 easy stories for beginners. Some stories are the same as the stories in the Short Stories for Beginners

• Easy Reading 200 easy stories for beginners. Some stories are the same as the stories in the Short Stories for Beginners

• Star Fall A free public service to motivate children to read with phonics

Learning Strategies

• Key to College Success About 10 pages of sincere advice about how to be successful in American college

• Study Skills Guides Time management, note-taking, test taking, active listening, stress management, researching, and memorization

• Study Skills & Strategies Top resources for information on study skills, study strategies

• Study Skills for Students Study skills checklist, 10 habits of highly successful students

• How to Learn English Covers motivation, dictionaries, pronunciation, input, and more

History and Culture

• Holidays in America Description of all the holidays from January to December

• Biography Read biographies, and watch interviews and video clips

• Presidents of the United States of America Biographies of 43 USA Presidents

• 50 States of the United States Introduction to all the 50 states. Also learn the pronunciation of names of the states

• Introduction to the United States of America From history and government to economy and culture.

• Bible Gateway All different versions of the Bible in English and other languages, in text or pdf format

• Movie Guides Detailed synopses of popular movies with an extensive glossary of vocabulary and various cultural references

• This Day in History Some interesting things that happened this day in history

Dictionaries

• Cambridge International Dictionary An excellent online dictionary for English learners with simple definitions and translation

• Longman Dictionary The quickest and easiest way to look up any word, simple and clear definitions for English learners to understand

• Dictionary.com The largest free online dictionary with definitions and pronunciation

• A Picture Dictionary Learn vocabulary by seeing the image and hearing the pronunciation

• Acronym Finder The world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations

Quotes

• Proverbs by Subjects The most popular proverbs in different categories

• LIBQUOTES 100% Sourced Quotations, famous authors, hand-picked quotes, and popular topics

• The Quotations Page The largest and oldest Quotations Page on the Web with about 30 categories

• Finest Quotes A huge collection of inspirational quotes, thoughts of greatest minds in history

• Literature Quotes Quotations from the great works of literature

• Inspirational Quotes Read quotes and sayings from famous people in history

• Einstein Quotes Collected quotes from Albert Einstein

Public Domain Books

• CommonLit Delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12

• The Gateway to the Classics One of the best online collections of classic literature for children and the young at heart

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer An adaptation of a Mark Twain classic, appropriate for low-intermediate to intermediate learners

• Public Domain Books Free books from a variety of different authors

Jokes

• Jokes in English With text and mp3 audio from manythings.org

• Using Jokes and Humor to Learn English A great way to increase your vocabulary!

• Jokes Collection Jokes submitted by ESL/EFL instructors at iteslj.org for classroom use

• Jokes in Levels Videos of three levels for English learners to view

Award-winning Essays

• Impossible Puzzles By William W. L. Li, an MIT graduate, who came to the United States from China at seven. He wrote this award-winning essay when he was thirteen

• How Has Technology Improved My Life The essay written by Yilin Wang from Arcadia High School won the Best ESL Essay Award at CATESOL 2015 Annual Conference

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