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Reading Skills for Today’s Adults: New Updates!

You may be familiar with the Southwest ABE’s Reading Skills For Today’s Adults website, where you can find readings on a variety of topics and at different levels. As with any materials, you need to look through and see which might fit your needs. As my colleague Kate Brandt (CUNY HSE PD team) said in her CollectEd post, the best feature of the website is the audio: students can read along while listening to an audio of the text read at three different speeds: slow, medium, and fast. There are also sets of questions attached to each text that students can print out and write answers to, and each text also includes supplementary worksheets with vocabulary, close paragraphs, and fill-in-the-blank exercises.

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