Reading Resources

Books that Grow is an online educational platform that offers digital books that adapt to readers' abilities. Two people reading the same title may see entirely different words, sequences of ideas, or illustrations, depending upon their individual learning profile. Subscription is free, and the site seeks to help users become better readers, allow educators measure students' abilities and track their progress.

CommonLit is a free digital collection of fiction and nonfiction for classrooms. CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. All resources are flexible, research-based, aligned to CCSS, and created by teachers for the use of teachers.

DOGO News has fun articles for kids on current events, science, sports and more. There are also lots of stories, pictures, videos, games and the DOGO news map for kids. Teachers have access to worksheets and assignments for reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking.

Epic! for Educators is packed with thousands of high quality books for grades k-5. With Epic students can read anywhere - at school on a Chromebook, at school on an iPad, anywhere they can log in. Individualized profiles help students keep track of their reading, give recommendations on what they should read next, and provide data for you to assess their reading skills. The best part: Epic is free for teachers.

Google News is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google. , selecting up-to-date news from thousands of publications.

Google News Archive is an extension of Google News that provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.

K12 Reader features thousands of printable or digital articles and stories with exercises covering sight words, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and other reading essentials.

Newsela provides unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day. Articles are designed to help build reading comprehension by delivering relevant, daily articles from trusted sources that can be leveled to the right level for any reader in your classroom.

News in Levels writes news in three different levels of English to engage readers as a variety of ability levels. With this resource students can also listen to an audio track of the text to follow along with. This resource is especially good for students learning English proficiency.

Overdrive allows you to borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and more from the Callaway County Public Library anywhere, anytime. And since it's the public library, it's free! All you need is a library card to connect you to a world of electronic reading.

Readworks.org provides research based lessons and passages aligned to standards. Each passage features questions and activities to aid in the reading comprehension and growth of your students.

Readworks Digital is the same service in a 100% digital environment. Use the same great materials and lessons, but set up classes, find and assign articles, and evaluate student data using integrated digital tools.

ReadWriteThink provides lesson plans and materials for teachers to engage students in all curricular and developmental areas. Every lesson plan is aligned to NCTE standards as well as state standards.

Storyline Online features well known actors and actresses reading children's books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that students can be read to with just the click of a button.

TweenTribune features daily AP news articles Lexile leveled for k-12 students. With self scoring quizzes, critical thinking questions, and student commenting built into the articles, there are tools for tracking student performance and progress. In addition, weekly lesson plans and videos offer additional engagement opportunities.

Each day Wonderopolis poses an intriguing question or "Wonder" for students to explore in a variety of ways. Each Wonder connects engaging information text to content areas across the curriculum. Wonders also meet mutlitple state standards in reading and language, making this a great tool to integrate into your literacy instruction.

Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural text. This has evolved into a digital library of free books that students can choose from. Books on Project Gutenberg are published in open and accessible formats so they can be used on just about any device.