American Literature: I often recommend finding a book of short stories to help students improve their reading ability. When you find a word you don’t know, you can use a Spanish-English dictionary to add it to your vocabulary. This can really slow things down if you’re reading a long book, but one of the best things about short stories is that they’re short, so you can still make progress reading and improving your vocabulary and reading comprehension with occasional short stops to look up new words. It’s easy and free to create a user account, which provides access to hundreds of texts in the public domain.