English Reading and Listening Practice

For English Language Students

Aesop's Fables Introduction Readability Level: 77.72% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#1 The Eagle and the Fox 73.65% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#2 The Eagle the Crow and the Shepherd 76.64% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#3 The Eagle and the Beetle 74.31% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#4 The Hawk and the Nightingale 80.78% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#5 The Farmer and the Banker 81.74% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#6 The Goatherd and the Wild Goats 72.54% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#7 The Birds who were Sick and the Cat who was a Doctor 86.83% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#8 Aesop at the Shipyard 77.75% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#210 The Boy Who Yelled Wolf 78.55% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#721 The Man The Boy and the Donkey 83.22% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

Daily Vocabulary

Google Drive Folder -- Youtube Playlist -- Quizlet Folder

A Fool and his money are soon parted Readability Level: 74.82% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, video , slides)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder 77.87% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, video , slides)

Acknowledge (video, slides)

Ain't 82.47% at elementary level (Worksheet, video, slides) Playlist--Songsheets: Ain't Got No I Got Life, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Ain't No Sunshine, I ain't Marching Anymore

All roads lead to Rome 83.77% at elementary level (Worksheet, video)

Better late than never 83.82% at elementary level (Worksheet, video , slides)

Birds of a feather flock together 82.89% at elementary level (Worksheet, video, quizlet, slides)

Burn off some energy (Video)

Curt (Video)

Do (Video)

Familiarity breeds contempt 79.24% at elementary level (Worksheet, video , slides)

Gesundheit (video)

Get (video)

Get caught in the rain (video)

Go (Video)

God Knows (Video)

Have (Video)

How are you doing? 86.16% at elementary level (worksheet, video)

It is better to give than to receive 81.54% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

Make (Video)

Make small talk (Video)

Many hands make light work 83.73% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

Not my cup of tea (Video)

Opposites attract 78.54% at elementary level (worksheet, video, quizlet, slides)

Out of sight, out of mind 83.86% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

Out of the blue (video)

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones 78.91% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

Play it by ear, (video)

Take (video)

The early bird catches the worm 81.03% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence 76.19% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

The pen is mightier than the sword 76.60% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

Too many cooks spoil the broth 77.99% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

Wake up on the wrong side of the bed (video)

When in Rome, do as the Romans do 80.41% at elementary level (worksheet, video , slides)

You can't have your cake and eat it too 85.12% at elementary level (worksheet, video, slides)

Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales

Google Drive Folder -- Youtube Playlist (slow, normal, storytelling)-- Quizlet Folder

Grimm Brothers Introduction Readability Level: 82.48% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#1 The Frog Prince 82.60% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#2 A Cat and A Mouse Living Together 85.40% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#3 Lady Mary's Child 82.74% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#4 The Boy Who Wanted to Learn How to Shudder: 84.27% at elementary level ( Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Complete, Videos, Quizlet)

#5 The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids 79.14% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#6 Faithful John 83.08% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#57 The Golden Bird 81.76% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

#92 The King of the Golden Mountain 84.75% at elementary level (Worksheet, Videos, Quizlet)

Poems

Google Drive Folder -- Youtube Playlist -- Quizlet Folder

A Parody (Heavenly Union) by Frederick Douglass (Worksheet, Slideshow, Video)

Antigonish by Hughes Mearns Readability Level: 91.67% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Backward Bill by Shel Silverstein 77.44% of words at the elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Cats by Eleanor Farjeon 68.18% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Cloony The Clown by Shel Silverstein 75.29% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Dance of the Dolphins by Joan Stimson 61.97% (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Dreadful by Shel Silverstein 77.52% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Eletelephony by Laura Elizabeth Richards 75.00% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss 58.14% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Help by Shel Silverstein 85.14% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Homework Machine by Shel Silverstein 80.28% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

It is Sweet and Fitting by Wilfred Owen 59.11% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Ladies First by Shel Silverstein 69.28% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein 75.00% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Lenin is Turned Into a Frog in 1917 by ChatGPT (Worksheet, Video)

Listen to the Mustn'ts by Shel Silverstein 82.35% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein 70.86% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Mice by Rose Fyleman 81.48% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Moses Supposes his Toeses are Roses 56.37% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Mrs Bunny Had Twins by Nicola Baxter 76.74% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

My Rules by Shel Silverstein 74.12% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson 80.10% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost 61.36% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Pierre by Maurice Sendak 80.51% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Rats Building Bicycles by ChatGPT (Worksheet, Video)

Rats Building Bicycles and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work by ChatGPT (Worksheet, Video)

Rats Building Bicycles and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates by ChatGPT (Worksheet, Video)

Rats Building Bicycles, and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates, and then Finally Finding Religion by ChatGPT (Worksheet, Video)

Rats Building Bicycles, and then Suddenly Becoming Disillusioned with their Work and Becoming Pirates, and then Finding Religion, but Finally Becoming Atheists by ChatGPT (Worksheet, Video)

Roger Was a Razor Fish by Al Pitman 74.00% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein 57.99% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Sick by Shel Silverstein 74.54% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

Sounds and Letters Don't Agree by Lord Cromer 75.33% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

The Anteater by Roald Dahl 69.85% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video, Quizlet)

The Battle by Shel Silverstein 78.95% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Boa Constrictor Poem 53.97% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Crocodile by Roald Dahl 66.86% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Crocodile's Toothache by Shel Silverstein 75.58% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Dentist and the Crocodile By Roald Dahl 73.31% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daughters sold into Southern Bondage by John Greenleaf Whittier (Worksheet, Slideshow, Video)

The Heavenly Union (Worksheet, Slideshow, Video)

The Kitten and the Kangaroo by Joan Stimson 73.72% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Next War by Osbert Sitwell 69.19% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them by Robert Southey 79.13% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear 71.24% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Pig by Roald Dahl 72.80% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt 70.73% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, or, What You Are You Are By Gwendolyn Brooks 63.54% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

The Wolf Hunt 71.78% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

This is the House that Jack Built 65.96% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

What Are Little Boys Made Of 88.24% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

What Did You Learn in School Today? by Tom Paxton 91.70% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

What-if by Shel Silverstein 79.77% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

When All the World is Young, Lad by Charles Kingsley 72.73% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll 75.91% at elementary level (Worksheet, Video)

Storybooks

Google Drive Folder--Youtube Playlist--Quizlet Folder

Study suggestions: (1) If you search Youtube, you can find many videos of people reading each of these books. It may be useful to listen to multiple different versions. Different readers will have different accents, different interpretations, and different intonations. (2) You may find it useful to buy a copy of the book yourself so that you can read it as well as listen to it. I've provided links to each book page at Amazon.com for convenience.

A Fish Out Of Water by Helen Palmer Readability Level: 87.13% of words at the elementary level, (video, quizlet, worksheet), Amazon Link

A Fly Went By by Mike McClintock 86.91% of words at the elementary level (video, quizlet, worksheet), Amazon Link

Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman 89.91% at elementary level (video, worksheet), Amazon Link

Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo! by Dr. Seuss 75.00% at elementary level (video, worksheet), Amazon Link

Big Dog… Little Dog by P.D. Eastman 73.70% at elementary level (video, worksheet), Amazon Link

Dr. Seuss' ABC by Dr. Seuss, (video) Amazon Link

Flap Your Wings by P.D. Eastman 78.66% at elementary level (video, worksheet), Amazon Link

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss 58.14% at elementary level (video, vocabulary, worksheet, quizlet), Amazon Link

Fred and Ted Go Camping by Peter Eastman 69.73% at elementary level (video, worksheet), Amazon Link

Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman, (video, worksheet), Amazon Link

Great Day for Up by Dr. Seuss, (video) Amazon Link

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, (video, Vocabulary) Amazon Link