Digital Resources for Books
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UniteForLiteracy K-2 books for kids
Former Poet Laureate of the United States selected 180 poems, one for each school day, with high school students in mind.
The website of children’s author, Kenn Nesbitt, where you will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, classic children’s poetry, games, contests, poetry lessons and activities, journals, plus rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcasts, videos, and lots more.
This site allows you to browse poems, poets and seasonal poems. It features articles, audio & podcasts, and many other resources for teachers. You can browse poetry in all issues of Poetry Magazine all the way back to 1912!
Project Gutenberg is a free digital library offering over 53,000 ebooks, newsletters, and articles.
Read Works “Article a Day” and Paired Texts
ReadWorks is a site that contains high-quality curated nonfiction and literary articles.
Storyline Online is an online resource containing books that include supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
This site offers free audio stories for kids.
Story Shares exists to bring more age-appropriate, accessible stories to reluctant readers.
Tween Tribune provides daily news articles. This website is filled with great resources, such as lesson plans filtered by topic, grade level and standards; Smithsonian resources; and news stories about issues that impact educators. Articles are available in both English and Spanish.
This site poses an interesting question each day and explores it in a variety of ways. The “Wonder Ground” is a section created specifically for educators and includes lesson plans, and classroom resources that correlate to education standards.
Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. The early literacy titles are all original — books withnarrated audio support with an initial goal of supporting the 300 languages that are spoken in U.S. homes; offer photographs and illustrations to authentically depict a child’s-eye view of the real world; and are structured to reflect the most current research on the specific features that impact success for beginning readers of all ages.