Welcome
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Welcome to Best of The Reader, a series of e-books for adult literacy and English as a second language learners.
There are 12 e-books, a Teachers’ Guide, and a 2010 calendar of special days and holidays on this site. Each of the e-books has six to eight stories, and each story has exercises and activities to go with it. There is also an answer key in each e-book.
Most of the stories, recipes, puzzles, and other material are from past issues of The Westcoast Reader (1982-2009), a newspaper for adults who are improving their English reading skills.
You have permission to download, print, and distribute all the material on this site. To view and print the e-books, you may need to download and install the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
June 9th, 2010 at 5:20 am
Hello,
Thanks for these free-from-bias ebooks. I added the link of your site to my blog.
Kind regards,
Zahra
June 21st, 2010 at 10:27 am
A colleague told me about this site some time ago and I have been downloading and using the e-books for more than three months. I keep discovering inspirational stories and appropriate learning activities that compliment my curriculum. This is a rich and varied resource and it is more carefully written and presented than any ESL textbooks I have ever used. Thank you.
Melissa Bradley
ESL Teacher
Calgary
June 27th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
All these e-books are an absolute treasure for new and experienced ESL teachers alike. The clear visuals, well-written adaptations of news stories and other essential information for immigrants, as well as the interesting and enjoyable post-reading activities are a real gift. The e-book on Canada would be a great introduction to this country at the beginning of a new class. Thanks for the helpful teacher guide, as well. Hopefully we will see even more of these nuggets in the future!
Susan Declerck
ESL Teacher
Vancouver
July 8th, 2010 at 7:14 am
Thank you for making all these beautiful books. They help our class learn so much information about many things like sports, different jobs, Canada, Aboriginal people, etc. We like the recipes and holidays very much.
Marisol Guevara y Elena Figueroa