Reading

Starfall :

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics.


Bookbuilder by CASTUse this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Cookie: At cookie, child experts and educators design interactive online games for kids. Our learning games for kids help in building skills needed for success in school. While playing our fun educational games, kids learn to read with phonics, build skills in math, language, social studies, science and much more. Our educational videos encourage children to keep learning, even after school hours.

Book Adventure: Multiple choice comprehension questions. Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline, come back to quiz on what they’ve read, and earn prizes for their reading success.

eBooks

Teacher Tap: Electronic Books: Explore online reading including interactive stories, articles, and books. Involve readers in writing stories including adding to stories, writing new endings, creating illustrations, and facilitating discussions.

Book Share :Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities

Guetenberg Books: Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats

Planet eBook :

Welcome to Planet eBook, the home of free classic literature. All our novels and books are entirely free for you to download and share with your friends, classmates, students, anyone! Scroll down the page to see the full list of free eBooks.

Internet Public Library : sections for kids, teens, newspapers and magazines, resources by subject

On Read

International Children's Digital Library Visit this site to search for digital books by children's age. Read a summary to determine which is best for your child.

Modified/Adapted Books

Tar Heel Reader a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches.

Adapted Books MSID adapted books

Sherlock Center Resource Library Repository of adapted books.

My Own Books 2 Go: You have access to all books in the library that are in the Public Library and then your own Private library called My Books. This includes all of the Storytime materials and adaptedstories by Pati KIng-DeBaun and any books anyone else creates and shares in the Public Litbrary. Notice that each of the books have several different ways to view the books. To share books for now the end user must be active on the internet.

Accessible Book Collection: The Accessible Book Collection is a non-profit corporation. Our primary mission is to provide high interest/low reading level digital text to qualified persons with disabilities. Government and non-profit schools and others can subscribe to the very affordable Accessible Book Collection and have a large selection of e-books for all their eligible student.

Resources

Intervention for Struggling ReadersFlorida Center for Reading Research:

Free gov looking for lesson plans, webcasts, homework assignments?

IPL2-Kidspace: Information you can trust for parents and teachers.

Dave Koppenhaver Technology: Reading professor


Websites with Books that have Text to Speech

Youtube Books: links for electronic books being read in a video on Youtube.

Teacher Tap: Electronic Books: Explore online reading including interactive stories, articles, and books. Involve readers in writing stories including adding to stories, writing new endings, creating illustrations, and facilitating discussions.

Access Text: The AccessText Network helps with print disabilities by connecting their disability service offices directly with leading textbook publishers to obtain electronic files. These files are used to create accessible versions of the textbooks.

Tumble Readables: TumbleReadables is an online collection of read-along titles for elementary, middle school, and high school students which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are being read and the pages turn automatically.

Guetenberg Books: Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats

Lit2Go: Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format

Storyline Online :

The screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

Bookflix This does require a login and password that you can get from your school or AEA

Trueflix This does require a login and password that you can get from your school or AEA

Barnes and Nobles Oneline Storytime Online Storytime- Childrens stories read by authors and celebrities FREE!

Tar Heel Reader a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches.

Mrs. P's An award-winning FREE interactive digital storybook destination. Classic children’s stories brought to life by TV star Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P.

Storynory: free audio stories for kids

Storycove: A collection of online resources developed for K through 3rd grade. Incorporates 22 stories carefully selected from the world's oral traditions to illustrate common character traits and decision making models for young children. Stories are supported by animations, audio read-a-along files, differentiated lesson plans that can be used with interactive white boards. The multicultural origin of these classic folktales is relevant for all children.

Smories Smories are original stories for kids, read by kid

http://www.wegivebooks.org/ All of the books available for online reading are children's picture books appropriate for children through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a range of authors, and an equal balance between read-alouds and books for independent readers

OpenLibrary- Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published

Overdrive- Allows you to check out books. just need a library card


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