Other Reading Resources
E-Books and Audio Books
Check out these reading resources below for ebooks, narrated books, and downloadable ebooks. Click the images to navigate to the services.
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr. contain ebooks, games, videos, and other multimedia. This is a paid subscription for AISJ students
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A supplementary reading resource that kids and parents will love!! Discover their wide collection of children's books and access their multilingual reading resources too!
Aesop's Fables
Collection of simple versions of Aesop's fables published and maintained by the United States Library of Congress.
More geared towards younger grades- voted best by American Association for School Librarians in 2019! Includes narration in over 40 languages including Arabic.
A great free online reading resource for kids! You can also sign up to listen to and narrate books, and explore a personalized journey.
Teach Your Monster to Read is a truly ground-breaking kids reading app/website that makes learning to read fun for little ones aged between 3-6.
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. It focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our e
ABCya! is a phenomenal site to help your child build his/her phonics skills and sight word recognition.
Check out these lists from The American Library Association of the most popular and award winning children's books if you're looking to purchase books for your home (click each medal for the list of current winners)
The Caldecott Medal is for most distinguished picture books for children
The Newberry Award is for most distinguished contribution to American literature published in English and in the United States
The Coretta Scott King Award is for outstanding African American authors of children's books
The Pura Belpre Award is given to a and American Latino or Latina writer who portrays or celebrates the Latino cultural experience in English or Spanish
The Batchelder Award is given to an outstanding book from a country other than the United States and translated into English
The Theodore Seuss Geisel Award is given to an American book published in English that is designed for Early Readers
The Odyssey Award is given to the producer of the best audiobook for children or young adults, published in English.
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways.