Provide adults with educational opportunities to acquire and improve their literacy skills necessary to be self-sufficient and to participate effectively as productive workers, family members, and citizens.
ESL students can access seven levels of stories written for adult learners. Each story focuses on a different learner, and has an accompanying listening track so learners can listen as well as read the story.
Stories and audio versions of story
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
5,390+ robust, original stories based on primary sources and presented in various media formats: written, dramatized narrations, videos, audios, images, maps, manuscripts, documents, recordings, first‐draft versions of famous speeches
ESOL Readings, workbooks, and Videos
Storybooks ESL is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. Part of the Global Storybooks project, it makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English and a wide variety of languages spoken around the world.
users can see an excerpt of the story they choose and engaging pictures, as well as access the audio. Transcripts available for each video
Listen & Read. Collection of recorded books, novellas, short stories, speeches, and songs with read-along text.
Resources for literacy for all ages
Language Learning Platform with lessons and sound
Audio Books and text
FreeReading contains activities and intervention materials for the following early literacy skills
15 nonfiction, read-along books about careers, animals, and the President.
Listen to English sentences and read translations in several languages.
