eBooks,
Audio Books,
Video Books
LCPS Resources
MackinVia: eBooks and Audiobooks (grades PreK-5)
MackinVia is a program that makes it easy to access your school's eBooks and audiobooks. You can use MackinVia on any device that has Internet access. For online and offline access, there is a free MackinVia app available for download.
You can access MackinVia through LCPS Go. Sign in just like you do on computers at school (student ID number and strong password). Click on Library Resources and then on MackinVia. Click on LCPS GO or the LCPS GO logo at the top of the page to start.
MackinVia is easy to use but there are also help videos. These can be accessed here.
There are more than 2,000 titles in Legacy's MackinVia. That's a lot, but not nearly as many titles as we have in the library at Legacy (20,000), so PLEASE be good sharers.
Check out no more than 3 titles at a time
Return titles as soon as you are finished with them
You can search or browse MackinVia; click on the "Categories" button in MackinVia to browse by genre or category.
EBooks in MAckinVia are identified with a picture of an open book on the cover and audiobooks have headphones on the cover. Some eBooks in MackinVia are read alouds, but the only way to identify them is to open the book; if there is a play key, it's a read aloud.
Click here for step-by-step instructions for using MackinVia.
Tumble Book is geared for grades PreK-3, but there are some chapter books for older readers as well.
Tumble Book is accessed through LCPS GO. Click on the LCPS GO logo at the top of the page,
Library Resources, and then Tumble Book.
Tumble Book Junior is for grades 3-5 (no picture books in this resource).
This resources is also accessed via LCPS GO.
Flipster: Magazines Online
LCPS currently has a trial for Flipster. These are hundreds of online magazines all free for LCPS students until April 2, 2020. There are magazines for all ages (parents included!). Here are a few favorite for elementary students:
Bazoof! -- focuses on health and creativity using stories and hands-on activities
Butternut -- food, cooking, recipes
ChickaDee -- comics, puzzles, crafts, recipes, science experiments
Chirp -- activities, stories, puzzles - great for younger readers
Fun for Kidz - activity magazine with each issue centered around a theme
Owl - current events, science and technology, expert interviews, hands-on building, comics, quizzes
Ranger Rick -- wildlife and nature
Ranger Rick Jr -- wildlife and nature - great for younger readers
Smore -- "comic-style magazine that explains science and technology through storytelling and takes
science beyond fact laden school textbook "
Zoobies -- wildlife - great for younger readers
Zoobooks -- each issue focuses on one animal
Zootles -- wildlife - great for younger readers
All these magazines, AND MORE, are available through Flipster (in LCPS GO). Click on the LCPS GO icon at the top of this page, click on Flipster. To more easily find the titles listed above and others like them, click on Family & Kid on the left side of the page, under Categories.
Non-LCPS resources for eBooks & Audiobooks
Overdrive: Available from the public library. You need a library card to use this resource. If you don't have one, now is a great time to get one. Click on the Overdrive logo at the left to see what the public library has to offer.
Hundreds of fiction and nonfiction books, although strength of collection is nonfiction. Very good collection of sports, animals, and biography titles. Read-to-Me books also available (under FORMAT select Read-To-Me-eBooks).
username: Spring
password: 2020
Video Books:
Video Books is not a real term, but it's the best I've got. Below are links to videos of read alouds.
Picture Books:
Storytime with Ryan and Craig (these guys are funny)
Website
YouTube Channel
Storytime from Space (astronauts read space themed books FROM SPACE; most are picture books but there are a few chapter books as well).
Website
Storyline Online (famous people read storybooks AND they do a really good job!)
Website
#OperationStorytime (authors read their books)
Instagram
Mrs. Burggraf
Mrs. Burggraf is creating a collection of read alouds that are available in Safari Montage. To view these video, open Safari Montage (it's in LCPS Go) and search on Burggraf or click on the links below:
Chapter Books:
Storytime with Miss Jeannie: Youtube channel, includes chapter books by Roald Dahl, Louis Sacher, and Andrew Clements (among others)
Lights Down Reading : Youtube channel, includes chapter book series such as My Weird School Daze, Magic Tree House, Junie B. Jones (among others)
#OperationStorytime (authors read their books, on Instagram)