diff --git a/packages/core/schematics/migrations/undecorated-classes-with-di/create_ngc_program.ts b/packages/core/schematics/migrations/undecorated-classes-with-di/create_ngc_program.ts
index 35b6c764ae..4c0f09cb51 100644
--- a/packages/core/schematics/migrations/undecorated-classes-with-di/create_ngc_program.ts
+++ b/packages/core/schematics/migrations/undecorated-classes-with-di/create_ngc_program.ts
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
 
-import {AotCompiler, CompileStylesheetMetadata} from '@angular/compiler';
-import {createProgram, readConfiguration} from '@angular/compiler-cli';
+import {AotCompiler} from '@angular/compiler';
+import {CompilerHost, createProgram, readConfiguration} from '@angular/compiler-cli';
 import * as ts from 'typescript';
 
 /** Creates an NGC program that can be used to read and parse metadata for files. */
 export function createNgcProgram(
-    createHost: (options: ts.CompilerOptions) => ts.CompilerHost, tsconfigPath: string) {
+    createHost: (options: ts.CompilerOptions) => CompilerHost, tsconfigPath: string) {
   const {rootNames, options} = readConfiguration(tsconfigPath);
 
   // https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/ec4381dd401f03bded652665b047b6b90f2b425f made Ivy
@@ -21,24 +21,21 @@ export function createNgcProgram(
   options.enableIvy = false;
 
   const host = createHost(options);
+
+  // For this migration, we never need to read resources and can just return
+  // an empty string for requested resources. We need to handle requested resources
+  // because our created NGC compiler program does not know about special resolutions
+  // which are set up by the Angular CLI. i.e. resolving stylesheets through "tilde".
+  host.readResource = () => '';
+  host.resourceNameToFileName = () => '$fake-file$';
+
   const ngcProgram = createProgram({rootNames, options, host});
-  const program = ngcProgram.getTsProgram();
 
   // The "AngularCompilerProgram" does not expose the "AotCompiler" instance, nor does it
   // expose the logic that is necessary to analyze the determined modules. We work around
   // this by just accessing the necessary private properties using the bracket notation.
   const compiler: AotCompiler = (ngcProgram as any)['compiler'];
-  const metadataResolver = compiler['_metadataResolver'];
-  // Modify the "DirectiveNormalizer" to not normalize any referenced external stylesheets.
-  // This is necessary because in CLI projects preprocessor files are commonly referenced
-  // and we don't want to parse them in order to extract relative style references. This
-  // breaks the analysis of the project because we instantiate a standalone AOT compiler
-  // program which does not contain the custom logic by the Angular CLI Webpack compiler plugin.
-  const directiveNormalizer = metadataResolver !['_directiveNormalizer'];
-  directiveNormalizer['_normalizeStylesheet'] = function(metadata: CompileStylesheetMetadata) {
-    return new CompileStylesheetMetadata(
-        {styles: metadata.styles, styleUrls: [], moduleUrl: metadata.moduleUrl !});
-  };
+  const program = ngcProgram.getTsProgram();
 
   return {host, ngcProgram, program, compiler};
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/schematics/test/undecorated_classes_with_di_migration_spec.ts b/packages/core/schematics/test/undecorated_classes_with_di_migration_spec.ts
index 5ec019d950..06dfbb231d 100644
--- a/packages/core/schematics/test/undecorated_classes_with_di_migration_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/schematics/test/undecorated_classes_with_di_migration_spec.ts
@@ -1457,5 +1457,27 @@ describe('Undecorated classes with DI migration', () => {
       expect(errorOutput.length).toBe(1);
       expect(errorOutput[0]).toMatch(/error TS1005: 'from' expected/);
     });
+
+    it('should not throw if resources could not be read', async() => {
+      writeFile('/index.ts', `
+        import {Component, NgModule} from '@angular/core';
+        
+        @Component({
+          templateUrl: './my-template.pug',
+          styleUrls: ["./test.scss", "./some-special-file.custom"],
+        })
+        export class TestComp {}
+       
+        @NgModule({declarations: [TestComp]})
+        export class MyModule {}
+      `);
+
+      writeFile('/test.scss', `@import '~theme.scss';`);
+
+      await runMigration();
+
+      expect(warnOutput.length).toBe(0);
+      expect(errorOutput.length).toBe(0);
+    });
   });
 });