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Elementary and Middle

http://www.amazingadventure.com/ "Stories that can be read aloud on the screen or read aloud in Flash Format." As of now, the collection is small, but growing. Start with the poems.

http://www.aesopfables.com/ "Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 656+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way." Some of the fables can be downloaded and heard in RealPlayer. Sometimes you must control or apple-click the link and download the file to the desktop. Be sure the extension is .ram. The text is easily copied/pasted into any word processor.

http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html Picture Books and Audio-Only books that require Flash.

http://bygosh.com/ Classic children's books in the public domain.

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ This is a great place to look for mulit-cultural books. "We are a library that provides free access to children's books from around the world. By ensuring access to books from many cultures and in diverse languages, we foster a love of reading, a readiness to learn, and a response to the challenges of world illiteracy." Use the standard button to read books.

http://www.dreambox.com/storybox/index.html Dream Box Story Box contains cute stories for very young children.

http://school.eb.com/elementary/browse/learning Encyclopedia Britannica's learning resources for elementary students contains some eBooks.

http://www.fablevision.com/place/library/index.html Fablevision has a good selection of eBooks for young children. However, they are compatible with either Mac OS 9 or PC.

http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ "The IMAGERS Program is comprised of two multimedia web sites: "Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon" and "Adventures of Echo the Bat". The Program's objective is to captivate children at an early age in Earth science through multimedia adventures."

http://korea50.army.mil/peacebound/ The Korean War Memorial site's picture book.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Children's Storybooks Online has a nice selection of web-based books for all ages.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/These books about the ever popular big red dog, Clifford. These books are interactive and require Flash.

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx Reading is fundamental includes read alongs for young children as well as traditional Spanish songs.

http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html Reader's Theater scripts from Aaron Shepard.

http://www.saskschools.ca/~ebooks/ Saskatchewan Schools provides an archive of student created eBooks that can be downloaded to your machine. These are primarily for young readers. Depending on the browser you are using, you may have to control-click Book to Print to download the .pdf version of the book. The Ebook will give you an online version.

http://www.storyplace.org/ StoryPlace includes more than "20 stories for elementary children in both Spanish and English."

http://www.storylineonline.net/ "Storyline Online is an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud!" These stories are audio only, no text. Requires Flash Player.

http://wiredforbooks.org/ "For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. " Wired for books also has pages devoted to childhood favorites, such as the Beatrix Potter series.

Middle and High School

http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp Abbaci Books takes "two of the great literary resources on the net: Project Gutenberg and Amazon, to produce a unique combination - contemporary reviews alongside the world's best free literature."

http://www.bartleby.com/ "Bartleby.com began as a personal research experiment in 1993 and within one year published the first classic book on the Web (Whitman’s Leaves of Grass). Since its incorporation in 1999 and the release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web." Copy and pastes with ease.

http://www.baen.com/library/ "Baen Books is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format. We're calling it the Baen Free Library. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online — no conditions, no strings attached."

http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html Bibliomania has "free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts."

http://www.blackmask.com/ Blackmask has more than "10,000 texts in a variety of formats."

http://bygosh.com/ Classic children's books in the public domain. Click Classics for Older Children.

http://classicbook.info/index.html The Classic Book Library is "a free online library containing treasured classics for old and young alike... From the menu, you can browse all books in any genre, go to the Table of Contents, or jump straight to any chapter. The chapters are divided into separate pages, making it easier for anyone to bookmark exactly where they were in each book!"

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library seeks to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of texts and images. This is a well organized searchable collection.

http://eserver.org/fiction/ "This site offers works of and about fiction collected from our members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain."

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ Children's Storybooks Online has a nice selection of web-based books for all ages.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ "Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today." Most available texts are older and in public domain. Visit the Online book collection.

http://ipl.si.umich.edu/ The Internet Public Library has miles of links. Go to the Reading Room for all kinds of literary links.

http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ "Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."

http://www.nap.edu/ The National Academies Press has more than 3,000 free online books, 900 of which are available in PDF format.

http://www.readprint.com/ Read Print "offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index. If you need help with something, feel free to drop us a line."

http://www.technotopia.com/books/ Technotopia is a small but growing collection of books that are placed in a very recognizable page by page format.

http://www.worldwideschool.org/ This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. To participate in the World Wide School all you need to do is to invest your time.

World Languages

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ "We are a library that provides free access to children's books from around the world. By ensuring access to books from many cultures and in diverse languages, we foster a love of reading, a readiness to learn, and a response to the challenges of world illiteracy." Use the standard button to read books.

http://www.ucomics.com/ Click and hold uComic's drop down menu to locate comics in Spanish.

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn7500/ Links to stories in Spanish

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn7600/ Links to stories in French.

http://www.storyplace.org/ StoryPlace includes more than "20 stories for elementary children in both Spanish and English."

http://www.worldwideschool.org/ This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. To participate in the World Wide School all you need to do is to invest your time.

eBook Lists

http://www.drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/ebook_libraries.htm A comprehensive list of links to e-books for all ages.

http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1535&issue=jun_06 Edutopia's article about the use of "audio books to expose students to text that's beyond their reading ability but that challenges their vocabulary and comprehension". Included are links to ebook resources.

http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/rzn0000 The Reading Zone from the Internet Public Library contains links to many online stories.

Plug-Ins, Readers, Tools

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Acrobat Reader

http://www.ereader.com/product/browse/software e-Reader

http://www.macromedia.com/ Scroll down and click Download Flash Player or Download Shockwave Player

http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/default.asp Microsoft Reader, for PC only

http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.shtml Okapi Readability Statistics

http://www.real.com/ RealPlayer downloads

http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/exp-downloadv.html Stuffit Expander

http://textalyser.net/ Textalyser analyzes text or websites for readability

Audio and Video Books

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp You must sign in and control-click the link to download the book as an mp3 file.

http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html Picture Books and Audio-Only books that require Flash.

http://www.storylineonline.net/ "Storyline Online is an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud!" These stories are audio only, no text. Requires Flash Player.

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx Reading is fundamental includes read alongs for young children as well as traditional Spanish songs.

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/ The Digital Book Index is a great tool for finding digital books by author, title or keyword. "Over the last decade, a quiet revolution has been going on in the development of a large library of "digital" or "electronic" books. While there are still large gaps, a very substantial body of "Western" thought is available in the form of downloadable or on-line books."

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http://www.accessiblebookcollection.org/ "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."

http://www.audible.com/ "We offer over 80,000 hours of audio programs from 270 content partners that include leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, podcasters, and business information providers."

http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html "Bookshare.org dramatically increases access to books for the community of visually impaired and otherwise print disabled individuals. "

http://www.itunes.com The iTunes music store also carries ebooks.

http://www.netlibrary.com/gateway.aspx "NetLibrary meets that challenge as the most versatile eContent provider for libraries and publishers today. It supports the most content from leading publishers, the most types of media — including eBooks and eAudiobooks — the widest audience of users and the most types of libraries. NetLibrary takes you far beyond the world of eBooks to provide a flexible and stable eContent platform that is positioned for continual rapid content growth."

http://www.readinga-z.com/ "Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach guided reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments."

http://www.tumblebooks.com "TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks , animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you."

Sources

Cavanaugh, Terence. The Digital Reader Using E-books in K-12 Education. 1st. Eugene, Oregon: International Society for Technology in Education, 2006.