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- It has its own built in library, so there are loads of classic books that students can get started with straight away.
- There is also a neat bookmarklet. You drag it to your toolbar, then whenever you get to a web page you want to speed read, you can just click on it and it will be played through ReadSpeeder.
- If you register you can start adding and saving your own texts simply by cutting and pasting.
- Perhaps best of all though is that you can access a dedicated mobile site (http://m.readspeeder.com) on i-phone or i-Pod Touch and access your saved books. This is a great feature as students can work alone at home or anywhere else on improving their reading. It's also quite a good way to read on an i-phone as it makes the text bigger.
- You could use it as I said above to get students to read for gist and just see how much of the text they understand after reading through one time.
- You could use it as a way to get students to revise a text.
- You could even get students to recite the text as they speed read it and gradually try to improve the speed. You might well have to start very slowly.
- Some students can find this kind of time challenge motivating and it can encourage them to repeatedly read the same text to improve their speed.
You can find 35 + online reading activities for EFL ESL students here.
Related links:
- Write Your Own Quick Biography
- Animated EFL ESL Writing Prompts
- Text to Speech for EFL ESL Materials
- Creating audio-visual monologues
- Drama project tools
- Make you own animated movies
- Developing screencast tutorials
- Extending a Sentence
- 60 Second Writing Activity
Nik Peachey
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