Digital Books
Story Time from Space is a project of the Global Space Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education foundation.
We send children’s books to the International Space Station.
While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth. These videos are being edited and placed on this Story Time From Space website- look under the heading ” Story Time Videos”.
Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker. Great for kids... and adults too! Read along in Spanish or English.
The Education Team at AWSC is offering a daily story hour the week of March 16th to provide free online learning for youth. The books are being read via Facebook Live each day on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Facebook page. Below you will find the books being read, along with additional lessons and activities youth can participate in. We hope you find them useful!
TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children’s e-books, available by subscription to Elementary Schools and Public Libraries around the world.
Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
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Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.
An ever-growing streaming library of kid-safe animated storybooks on all your favorite devices.
Our aim is to encourage the love of reading by retaining all of the important elements of story time: read-along pacing, life lessons, and a visual connection between words and text. It’s quality screen time you can feel good about.
Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. Some months we serve around a million downloads of our mp3 files (stored on Libsyn). ... We aim for our audio stories to showcase imagination, good writing, and great narrations.
Welcome to our free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3–11 years old. Help your young child learn to read, and love to read, with our range of over 100 free eBooks. If you'd like to learn more about how to support your child's reading, visit our Reading and Phonics made easy pages. For information about our range of levelled books for schools, visit our Oxford Reading Tree page or explore our Read with Oxford pages to learn about our range of books designed to support reading practice at home.
Founded in 2008, freechildrenstories.com operates on the simple principle that children's development is paramount. Our mission is to offer traditional, meaningful storytelling to every child, parent, or teacher around the globe with access to the internet, for free.
4,560 K-12 passages (and counting)
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This site offers literary and non-fiction reading passages for grades 3-12. Teachers can assign reading and follow-up questions, and track student progress.
The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world.
The culmination of a dream of two life-long educators, Mark Condon and Michael McGuffee, Unite for Literacy (UfL) is a website dedicated to the idea of “Book Abundance, where all children have access to books that celebrate their cultures and honor their home languages.”
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Malamud, Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books.