I found some reading games on this website.
Reading Games
I tried all of them. These games are good for young learners form the beginning to pre-intermediate level. They focus on vocabulary, pronunciation, homophones, synonyms, prefix&suffix, etc. They are asynchronous and single play games. In addition, all games provide clear instruction and demonstration. which means they are good resources for students to practice English on their own. The game itself is not difficult, but it is also a good source for the teacher to get some ideas from these games and also to design some class activities similar to them.
There are other interactives under Teachers' Resources (like interactive whiteboard lesson which also enables learners to participate).
The thing I like best is that the games and interactives provide learners with lots of listening input, so learners can also practice their pronunciation and speaking by listening and imitating what the people say in the game. They can also learn some language usage. When I got the right answer, I heard 'Good job', 'Terrific', 'well done',etc, and other expression to encourage me to try again when I failed. I assume players' communicative competence is developed to some extent.
These games are easy, but it is worth adopting them to ESL/EFL classes.
Blogs for Specific Purposes
12 years ago
Hi, Yi. This is a nice summary of the web site. I checked it out and looked at two of the exercises which were pretty good. I liked the explanation of putting your hand under your chin to determine how many syllables a word has, although if you say some of the wordsm for example, FOSSIL quickly, your chin only moves once. But I do like the site overall.
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