Learn how to skim, scan and read texts more efficiently through these helpful guides.  Get interested in reading different types of texts including poetry, novels and short stories through these interactive links.

Learning to Read More Efficiently

• Interactive Reading Webquests
  Choose from five novel-based web quests to improve your reading skills and test your attention to detail. (H/O)

• How to Read Better & Faster
  Advises you how to become a better reader using skimming and scanning. (H/0)

• Champion Reading
  Involves learning better reading methods and tests your understanding with a mini-quiz at the end.  (H/O)

• Test Your Reading Speed
  Check your reading speed with this interactive test. (H/O)

• Solve the Mystery Reading Maze
  Presents an interactive reading maze in which you have to solve different dilemmas. (H/O)

  Get Hooked on Reading Fiction and Poetry

• Goodnight Mister Tom - Activities
  Provides several reading, writing and speaking activities based on specific chapters in the novel. (H/O)

• The Hobbit's World
  Discover maps of Middle Earth, an art gallery devoted to Hobbits and quizzes based on the novel. (H/O)

• Poetry Archives
  Contains an online collection of poems from a number of classic poets.  (H/O)

• Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est
  Interactive resource that requires you to complete Owen's war poem. (H/O)

  Test Your Knowledge

• The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty – Quiz
  Test your knowledge of the plot of this exciting short story.

• Goodnight Mister Tom - Quiz
  Simple interactive crossword that tests your  knowledge of the novel. (H/O)

   

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