One of my hobbies is writing nonfiction reading passages -- the kind that show
up on reading tests. My reading passages show up
on various reading tests around the country -- and also in various English
language textbooks used in other countries. I also give them
away for free on my web site at [
http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html |
http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html ]
(scroll down past the children's stories to get to the nonfiction reading
passages)
I've created some multimedia versions of these reading passages where the text
is read aloud by a computer voice -- highlighting the
sentences as the sentences are read. These might be helpful for ESL students --
as well as native English speakers learning reading and writing
skills.
I've collected these all together -- along with some other files -- in a
package titled Reading Passages and More. You can download for
free from the Internet Archive and freely distribute these files for any
purpose. The package is 1.3 GB in file size. You can grab it from the link
on the right side of
[ https://archive.org/details/reading-passages-and-more |
https://archive.org/details/reading-passages-and-more ]
Use the torrent download, when possible, to save the Internet Archive bandwidth
costs.
I'm hoping this small project of mine can spur others to share "digital
culture" in such a way that the recipients of donated computers
can spend several hours (or days) poking thru different multimedia and text
files.
phil