This paper describes a materials development project to create interactive online reading lessons for Indonesian. The objectives of these lessons are two-fold: to teach reading strategies and to improve Indonesian reading proficiency. The lessons are developed based primarily on schema theory using authentic texts found in the Indonesian mass media and other public domains. Each lesson consists of three major stages: i) the pre-reading stage where the tasks are designed to activate student’s schemata about the topic and genre of the texts and to anticipate new information in the text; ii) the during-reading stage where students are guided to develop comprehension by processing information from general to specific, and to develop skills to utilize context to interpret key linguistic aspects; iii) the post-reading stage where the activities necessitate students to incorporate other skill domains, i.e. speaking, listening, writing, while performing real world tasks related to the topic. The reading materials incorporate online, interactive exercises for the first and second year Indonesian language instruction at the tertiary level and will be accessible on the Internet at no charge.