Selection of free electronic resources for building foreign language reading skills in technical university students

This article is devoted to the development of the reading skills as one of the main aims of teaching a foreign language. The emphasis is on the computer mediated strategies including operation with free digital resources. The characteristics of some academic web-sites (breakingnewsenglish.com, readingcomprehensionconnection.com, busyteacher.org, readinga-z.com) are described as well as teacher's work stages with these sites. Examples of tasks for teaching different types of reading and vocabulary are given.