Get your students excited about reading in English with our comprehensive reading lessons. From low beginner to advanced, these lessons focus on specific reading skills or types of reading related to academic, functional, and business purposes.


Identifying the Main Idea

Skimming & Scanning

Identifying the Layout

Reading for Detail

Identifying the Author's Purpose

Using a Dictionary

Following a Recipe

Using Context Clues

Identifying the Theme

Distinguishing Fact from Opinion

Identifying Register

Understanding Implied Meaning

Identifying Points of View

Identifying Rhetorical Devices

Get your students excited about reading in English! Ready-to-teach ESL lessons focusing on a specific reading skill or type of reading.

ESL Lesson Plans by Ellii – Reading in English

Reading in English 