Self-Access Reading Resources for L2 Readers

1. Target students: Middle school -Grade 1

2. Curriculum: Middle School English 1 -Neungyule

3. Purpose:
  1) to enable vocabulary  and reading skills building practice beyond the classroom
  2) to motivate students with more authentic and engaging materials of diverse genres

4. Category:
The web reading resources are largely topic-based following the chapters in the Middle School English 1 textbook. The five selected chapters are as follows:
  1) Lesson 4   My Visit to London
  2) Lesson 5   What a Beautiful World!
  3) Lesson 6   An Interview with an Astronaut
  4) Lesson 8   The Happy Tree
  5) Lesson 10  I have a Dream
The topics covered in these chapters include travel, nature and environment, space exploration, literature, and understanding cultures. Each of the reading collection plot provides a variety of reading materials of different genres, including some video clips related to the topic. Difficulty level of the texts have been considered to provide for lower level readers.