Books

READING RESOURCE SITES

• Breaking News English - breaking news at a selection of reading levels (EL)

• Goodreads - Includes booklists, reviews, and recommendations

• Epic Reads - Reviews and recommendations on young adult books from A to Z. 

• CommonLit - free collection of fiction and nonfiction texts at different reading levels

• Explain That Stuff! - basic articles on science and technology

• Newsela - news articles at different reading levels, sign in to select by Lexile level

• Teen Ink - By teens. For teens.

• The Washington Post: Five Myths - articles challenging everything you know

• Tween Tribune - leveled reading resource plus articles in Spanish, includes quizzes and assessments

ONLINE TOOLS

• LinkedIn Learning - Self-paced, on-demand video tutorials for learning business, technical and creative skills. Includes topics like software, photography, animation, presentation skills, game design, and digital publishing.

• Learning Express Library - Practice tests in many areas including ASVAB, the ACT, the GRE, Postal Worker, U.S. Citizenship, Praxis/PPST, Civil Service careers, basic skills and many more.

• News Literacy Project - This site helps students learn to be smart, active consumers of news and information

• We Need Diverse Books - Resources for race, equity, anti-racism, and inclusion

• DuoLingo - free online tool for learning a language, includes mobile apps

• Fluency Tutor - read aloud tool, available in Google Apps

• MyVocabulary.com - practice vocabulary with puzzles

• Rewordify.com - free online tool that simplifies difficult English terms in a selection of text

• Your Dictionary - provides easy to understand definitions, includes additional tools like sentence examples use and quotes

• Visual Dictionary Online

EVERYONE CAN READ

• Britannica Fundamentals

• Explora: Kids Edition

• eBooksMN

• PebbleGo: Animals and Biographies

• PebbleGo Next: States, Science, Biographies, Social Studies and American Indian History