Reading Tips: Online Resources
Visit the great sites below for interesting and different ways to improve your English reading skills.
Review strategies for reading well in different college subjects, such as biology or history, on the University of Texas's Varying Reading Strategies page. You'll find other great reading handouts on the University of Texas Learning Center's resource page.
Practice taking vocabulary quizzes and other vocabulary-building activities at Vocabulary University
Learn new homonyms (words that sound alike but have different meanings) from Alan Cooper.
Learn about how Greek and Latin word roots are used in English at Focusing on Words, and at Exploring Words.
Read and answer questions about news stories from the CNN archives.
Check out multilingual dictionaries and vocabulary quizzes at English Online.
Explore Word Central, a web site about English words of all kinds, sponsored by Merriam-Webster, the company that makes the famous dictionary!