Graded reading & listening for English language learners
America 250: Classic American Stories:
- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky - classic bittersweet tale from the Old West
- The Long Black Veil - another Wild West sung as a ballad
- Jaws - never go back in the water (age 12+)
- My Financial Career * Raining Cows * Pants Suit funny stories of American life
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider: tragic romance based on a true story from Spanish Fu pandemic
Adventure/Suspense
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftAround the World in 80 Days
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Classic Novels
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Treasure Island
The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
Detective/Crime
Sherlock HolmesFather Brown
The Arrest of Arsène Lupin
Drama/Romance
The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton ChekhovThe Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Harvest Moon - love & loss in London
Ghost/Horror
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar WildeA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Signalman by Charles Dickens
Whistle and I’ll Come by M.R James
Man-Size-in-Marble by E. Nesbit
The Listeners poem
The Body Snatcher by R.L. Stevenson
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Macbeth advanced
Comic
Diary of a NobodyThree Men in a Boat
My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock
My Uncle Jules by Guy de Maupassant
Ding Dong Dave
Monkey Flies Economy
History
TitanicJournal of a Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Staplehurst Train Disaster
Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
A Thief Regrets - robber turns life around
Mary Celeste Mystery
Stories for very young learners here
About these stories
- Text and audio graded for age & language English language level
- Materials broadly at Intermediate (A2/B1) unless indicated)
- Worksheets, presentations & other teaching materials
- Free for classroom use under CC Share alike licence - please share.
- Easy Start - stories for young children