Text Resources

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The Children's Books Online the Rosetta Project is the largest collection of illustrated antique books. These books come in many different languages

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2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12, complemented by aligned interim assessments, growth-oriented data, and expert-led teacher development.

Translation, Read Aloud, Guiding Questions, Paired Texts, Annotations and more

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• Instantly Access 35,000 eBooks, Learning Videos, Quizzes and more for K-5!

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• ESL English - Adult Literacy - Listening, Reading, Audiobooks, Short Stories, Songs, PET exam.

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• Fairy tales and fables in Spanish, French, Italian, German and English. Lovingly crafted stories especially for children and adults learning a second language.

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• Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide. Read, download, toggle, and listen to a wide variety of illustrated stories from the African Storybook and other open sites. Development continues at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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A collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.

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To create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet. The materials included in the collection reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, and priorities of peoples around the world.

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• Access to outstanding, inspirational, educational books

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With a large and growing collection of eBooks for kids 1 to 13 years old, your children get to enjoy new books all the time from award winning authors and publishers from around the world. In addition to titles you are familiar with from traditional publishers, they also have the opportunity to discover new stories from authors they've never heard of, or try out new languages they've never seen.

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• Engage every learner with thousands of real-world texts that feature diverse perspectives and people all students can identify with

• Get visibility into usage and student performance with built-in activities and reporting

• Differentiate instruction easily with texts published at 5 reading levels

• Keep your lessons fresh and relevant, with up to 10 new texts added every day

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Oxford Owl is an award-winning primary platform developed by Oxford University Press. It is home to fantastic free online teaching, learning and assessment resources, expert support as well as a range of paid-for subscriptions for primary schools.

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Read Theory is a powerful educational tool that offers online reading activities for all ages and ability levels. Our custom web application adapts to students’ individual ability levels and presents them with thousands of skill building exercises that suit their needs.

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Reading Passages

• Question Sets—research-based to scaffold deeper comprehension of the text

• Audio—available for ALL reading passages and questions

• StepReads—less complex versions of the original passage for differentiation

• eBooks—rich visuals and human voice audio support comprehension ○ Vocabulary supports and activities

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• We create free and low-cost experiences whereby children can successfully learn through exploration. On the Starfall website and in Starfall classrooms, children have fun while learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play. We teach through positive reinforcement to ensure children become confident, intrinsically motivated, and successful.

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• Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

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We help generate and then distribute new stories aimed at older students who read below grade level, specifically ensuring that the content is interesting at their age, and readable at their level.

To do so, we are building the Story Shares Hub to bring together authors, readers, and educators. For authors, the Hub provides a digital book builder to guide the creation of just-right content, and access to a large group of potential readers. For readers and educators, the Hub provides a library of newly created just-right content, distributed on a platform with built-in reading assists to make it even more approachable.

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Welcome to StoryWeaver from Pratham Books! Designed to provide children with reading resources, StoryWeaver is a digital gateway to thousands of richly illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in mother tongue languages.

There's more to StoryWeaver than just reading. It is also a first-of-its-kind platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, and translate new stories for children. It's the ideal place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to come together to weave new stories for children and help to create a pathway to nurture the next generation of readers!

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The Times in Plain English is about “clear writing.” Though not specifically built for English learners, it makes an effort to make news easier to understand. This means that English beginners can get their daily dose of news without having to pick up their dictionary once every five words.

The site takes articles from various publications, including The New York Times, and rewrites them in short, concise sentences using common vocabulary. Topics include health, education, law, immigration, money and work. You can find a link to the source at the end of each article, for when you want a reading challenge.

The site is easy to navigate and you can also subscribe to a newsletter to receive new articles straight to your inbox.

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TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children’s e-books, available by subscription to Elementary Schools and Public Libraries around the world.

TumbleBookLibrary Premium has over 1100 titles for grades K-6, and includes our unique animated, talking picture books, read-along chapter books, National Geographic videos, non-fiction books, playlists, as well as books in Spanish and French. Plus, the collection features Graphic Novels – a student favorite!

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To ensure that all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their cultures and languages.

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• This safe site is smartly simple. With hundreds of intriguing questions in its archive, and a new one posed and posted each day, families can find answers to things they've wondered about or search topics of interest. It doesn't stop at just answers and information, however. Each offers a video, thought-provoking questions, and suggestions for activities and links that can lead to more learning. There is also a section for user comments, and Wonderopolis staff responds thoughtfully to every single comment.

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• Wilbooks was started with the belief that all children deserve access to quality books. Our policy is to offer educators the books they need at the best possible price. We are proud of the fact that over 60,000 schools use our books. At Wilbooks, literacy is not just our business, it's our passion.

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• This safe site is smartly simple. With hundreds of intriguing questions in its archive, and a new one posed and posted each day, families can find answers to things they've wondered about or search topics of interest. It doesn't stop at just answers and information, however. Each offers a video, thought-provoking questions, and suggestions for activities and links that can lead to more learning. There is also a section for user comments, and Wonderopolis staff responds thoughtfully to every single comment.