Bookish Things
Free with membership of (most) public libraries.
Books and activities
Free from Nosy Crow
Free access, lots of stories and accompanying activity guides
Get free access to EPIC to 30/06/2020
This free program starts on Monday 30 March
Do you Tweet? Here is an aggregation of Australian children’s authors offering activities etc online, courtesy of author/illustrator James Foley on Twitter.
Looking eBooks for your kids? We have the best collection of free animated eBooks.
Great for ES1 and S1
Our English experts are currently developing 2-week learning sequences around these texts for every stage and will be uploaded to the Learning from home site when completed
Teachers can now post videos of themselves reading aloud from the Harry Potter books to children prevented from attending school because of the Covid-19 virus. This follows J.K. Rowling and her agents The Blair Partnership relaxing the usual copyright permissions required.
Here’s everything you need to know about Harry Potter At Home: some new ways to bring the magic closer to you, all specially created by different members of our wide Wizarding World family.
List created by Laura Capraro – Aitken College 28/3/2020
Paper Bird Books Home Club is a new YouTube Channel set up by Paper Bird Books in WA. Every morning at 10.30am (WA time) they have storytime (Sunday and Monday) or (the rest of the week) a visiting author or illustrator. Yesterday was Matty Mitchell. Today it was James Foley. (Paper bird also streams it on Instagram Live.)
Louise Park
Louise Park reads a chapter a day from her gripping time-slip adventure series, Grace's Secrets. Tune in at 2pm AEST and the video will be up for a few hours. Watch it on my insta account @lousieparkbooks or my Facebook account, Louise Park. It will also be up on my Youtube channel each day .
HOME LEARNING AND READING public copy.pdfHow to help your community of readers: created by Lizzy Martin, St Catherine's School, Sydney
A cosmic array of stellar stories!
Oliver Jeffers, reading a book a day
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read-Alouds & Activities
Currently free access, from Scholastic USA
This site has some PRC books
Comixology has a library of free comics, S3 and above
Along with offering free access to our digital learning products PebbleGo and Capstone Interactive eBooks, we have curated a collection of free printables and educational activities for kids’ exploratory learning. Bookmark this page! We will be adding more free resources continuously, so check back often for new projects for kids at home.
US content but entire book list, curated by grade - some great titles in here!
Each Lightbox e-book contains videos, activities, quizzes, links to webpages and more, making learning fun for you and your kids! [US site]
Many of the classics (many of them classics!)
During this unprecedented and uncertain time, we at the Great Books Foundation want to provide as much support as we can to teachers, parents, and administrators who are trying to navigate the ever-changing landscape of our current situation. As a nonprofit educational organization, we are committed to continuing to help educators and parents keep their students engaged and learning.
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Follow this link for information on the Great Book Swap!
