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English reading
English reading sites for Eiken, IELTS, PTE and OET, sorted by level.
Learner news, graded articles, and the papers those exams are written from.
Grade 5
- LearnEnglish (British Council): Short texts with questions, from the British Council.
- News in Levels (News in Levels): The same story in three easier versions.
Grade 4
- LearnEnglish (British Council): Short texts with questions, from the British Council.
- News in Levels (News in Levels): The same story in three easier versions.
- VOA Learning English (Voice of America): Slow news written for learners.
- Simple English Wikipedia (Wikipedia): Encyclopedia articles in controlled English.
Grade 3
- LearnEnglish (British Council): Short texts with questions, from the British Council.
- News in Levels (News in Levels): The same story in three easier versions.
- VOA Learning English (Voice of America): Slow news written for learners.
- Breaking News English (Breaking News English): One news story at seven speeds.
- Simple English Wikipedia (Wikipedia): Encyclopedia articles in controlled English.
Pre-2
- LearnEnglish (British Council): Short texts with questions, from the British Council.
- News in Levels (News in Levels): The same story in three easier versions.
- VOA Learning English (Voice of America): Slow news written for learners.
- Breaking News English (Breaking News English): One news story at seven speeds.
- Simple English Wikipedia (Wikipedia): Encyclopedia articles in controlled English.
- BBC News (BBC): Unsimplified news.
- NHS (NHS): Health pages in the kind of English OET uses.
Grade 2
- VOA Learning English (Voice of America): Slow news written for learners.
- Breaking News English (Breaking News English): One news story at seven speeds.
- Simple English Wikipedia (Wikipedia): Encyclopedia articles in controlled English.
- BBC News (BBC): Unsimplified news.
- The Guardian (The Guardian): Longer articles and opinion.
- Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg): Public-domain books.
- NHS (NHS): Health pages in the kind of English OET uses.
- World Health Organization (WHO): Clinical and public-health writing.
Pre-1
- Breaking News English (Breaking News English): One news story at seven speeds.
- BBC News (BBC): Unsimplified news.
- The Guardian (The Guardian): Longer articles and opinion.
- Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg): Public-domain books.
- NHS (NHS): Health pages in the kind of English OET uses.
- World Health Organization (WHO): Clinical and public-health writing.
Grade 1
- BBC News (BBC): Unsimplified news.
- The Guardian (The Guardian): Longer articles and opinion.
- Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg): Public-domain books.
- NHS (NHS): Health pages in the kind of English OET uses.
- World Health Organization (WHO): Clinical and public-health writing.