Voices in the Dark
Voices in the Dark is wonderful site for audio books that is read aloud for free. There are a number of categories to choose from such as: poems, fantasy, essay, etc.
I highly recommend checking out Voices in the Dark by clicking here!!
“ABRACADABRA” Is A Nice Reading Site From Canada
ABRACADABRA is an online reading program created by researchers in Montreal.
It has quite a few very accessible stories (with audio support for the test) and reading games.
I’m adding it to The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers.
You can read more about the site at an article in the Montreal Gazette headlined “Cultivating the magic of reading.”
Progressive Phonics - Free Reading Program
Progressive Phonics is a free series of ebooks that teachers and parents can use to help their students learn to read and write. Progressive Phonicsoffers free ebooks that cover everything from learning the alphabet to learning to write to learning the construction of words and sentences. As the name implies, Progressive Phonics arranges the series of free ebooks to build upon each other. You do have to register for the service, but once you do you can download the ebooks.
Thanks to my Google Teacher Academy buddy Kristen Swanson for sharing this great resource. Subscribe to her blog today.
Applications for EducationProgressive Phonics could be an excellent free resource for anyone tasked with teaching children how to read and write. The directions for the activities in the books that I downloaded appear to be very clear so as to very accessible to young learners.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
Seven Places to Find Free eBooks
Google Books Adds Shelving Options
Embedding Books Into Your Blogger Blog or Google Site
Story Cove: a world of stories (and lesson plans, fun activities, and more!)
Today’s featured site comes from Monica Keenan, an outstanding Elementary ESL teacher in my school who is constantly finding free and excellent resources to enhance her students’ learning. http://storycove.com/ is a great example and a terrific find. It features a collection of folktales from around the world.
“The Lost Lunch Box”
The Lost Lunch Box is sort of a “choose your own adventure” game where players have a variety of choices to make. In the process, players have to answer math, science, and history challenges.
I’m adding the link to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.
Read the Words
Read the Words is a very interesting site that I just learned about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a site where users upload their text and then have it converted into speech by one of fifteen different voices. A person can all save their reading, share it, or embed it into their site.
Voices in the Dark
Voices in the Dark is wonderful site for audio books that is read aloud for free. There are a number of categories to choose from such as: poems, fantasy, essay, etc.
I highly recommend checking out Voices in the Dark by clicking here!!
“ABRACADABRA” Is A Nice Reading Site From Canada
ABRACADABRA is an online reading program created by researchers in Montreal.
It has quite a few very accessible stories (with audio support for the test) and reading games.
I’m adding it to The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers.
You can read more about the site at an article in the Montreal Gazette headlined “Cultivating the magic of reading.”
Progressive Phonics - Free Reading Program
Progressive Phonics is a free series of ebooks that teachers and parents can use to help their students learn to read and write. Progressive Phonicsoffers free ebooks that cover everything from learning the alphabet to learning to write to learning the construction of words and sentences. As the name implies, Progressive Phonics arranges the series of free ebooks to build upon each other. You do have to register for the service, but once you do you can download the ebooks.
Thanks to my Google Teacher Academy buddy Kristen Swanson for sharing this great resource. Subscribe to her blog today.
Applications for EducationProgressive Phonics could be an excellent free resource for anyone tasked with teaching children how to read and write. The directions for the activities in the books that I downloaded appear to be very clear so as to very accessible to young learners.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
Seven Places to Find Free eBooks
Google Books Adds Shelving Options
Embedding Books Into Your Blogger Blog or Google Site
Voices in the Dark
Voices in the Dark is wonderful site for audio books that is read aloud for free. There are a number of categories to choose from such as: poems, fantasy, essay, etc.
I highly recommend checking out Voices in the Dark by clicking here!!
Voices in the Dark is wonderful site for audio books that is read aloud for free. There are a number of categories to choose from such as: poems, fantasy, essay, etc.I highly recommend checking out Voices in the Dark by clicking here!!
“ABRACADABRA” Is A Nice Reading Site From Canada
ABRACADABRA is an online reading program created by researchers in Montreal.
It has quite a few very accessible stories (with audio support for the test) and reading games.
I’m adding it to The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers.
You can read more about the site at an article in the Montreal Gazette headlined “Cultivating the magic of reading.”
It has quite a few very accessible stories (with audio support for the test) and reading games.
I’m adding it to The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers.
You can read more about the site at an article in the Montreal Gazette headlined “Cultivating the magic of reading.”
Thanks to my Google Teacher Academy buddy Kristen Swanson for sharing this great resource. Subscribe to her blog today.
Applications for Education
Progressive Phonics could be an excellent free resource for anyone tasked with teaching children how to read and write. The directions for the activities in the books that I downloaded appear to be very clear so as to very accessible to young learners.Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
Seven Places to Find Free eBooks
Google Books Adds Shelving Options
Embedding Books Into Your Blogger Blog or Google Site
Story Cove: a world of stories (and lesson plans, fun activities, and more!)
Today’s featured site comes from Monica Keenan, an outstanding Elementary ESL teacher in my school who is constantly finding free and excellent resources to enhance her students’ learning. http://storycove.com/ is a great example and a terrific find. It features a collection of folktales from around the world.
The Lost Lunch Box is sort of a “choose your own adventure” game where players have a variety of choices to make. In the process, players have to answer math, science, and history challenges.
I’m adding the link to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.
I’m adding the link to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.
Read the Words is a very interesting site that I just learned about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This is a site where users upload their text and then have it converted into speech by one of fifteen different voices. A person can all save their reading, share it, or embed it into their site.
Mother Goose Club
The Mother Goose Club has a number of rhymes and songs that provide audio support for the text.
Reading Rewards - Track Time Spent Reading
Reading Rewards is a free service that allows parents and teachers to track the amount of time their students spend reading. Students create goals in Reading Rewards then parents and teachers can reward them for reaching their goals. Every minute students read equals one Reading Reward (RR) mile. Parents and teachers can determine what the rewards will be and how many RR miles students need to earn to receive a reward.
If Reading Rewards was simply a tool for tracking student reading, I might not have written about it. What got me to write about Reading Rewards is the student networking aspect of the site. Students can connect to other students and share book recommendations. I think giving students the opportunity to share book recommendations could be a very valuable aspect of Reading Rewards. As teachers we can suggest all of the books we want and tell kids that other students like them liked a particular book, but hearing that from a peer could be much more influential in a student's decision to read a particular book.
Make and Print a Simple Flip Book
Read Write Think provides teachers, particularly reading and writing teachers, with a wealth of information and teaching resources. One neat resource of theirs that I recently learned about through Doug Peterson is their flip book maker. Read Write Think's flip book maker provides a template for students to use to create and print a ten page flip book. Students can use the flip book maker to design pages that contain various combinations of text and images. The flip book maker provides drawing tools that students can use to create original drawings to illustrate their stories.
Applications for EducationRead Write Think's flip book maker is a nice little tool that elementary school students could use to create short fairy tales and other fiction stories to print and share with their parents.
Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos
WeboWord - Vocabulary Visualized
Three Ways the Brain Creates Meaning
Reading Rewards - Track Time Spent Reading
Reading Rewards is a free service that allows parents and teachers to track the amount of time their students spend reading. Students create goals in Reading Rewards then parents and teachers can reward them for reaching their goals. Every minute students read equals one Reading Reward (RR) mile. Parents and teachers can determine what the rewards will be and how many RR miles students need to earn to receive a reward.If Reading Rewards was simply a tool for tracking student reading, I might not have written about it. What got me to write about Reading Rewards is the student networking aspect of the site. Students can connect to other students and share book recommendations. I think giving students the opportunity to share book recommendations could be a very valuable aspect of Reading Rewards. As teachers we can suggest all of the books we want and tell kids that other students like them liked a particular book, but hearing that from a peer could be much more influential in a student's decision to read a particular book.
Read Write Think provides teachers, particularly reading and writing teachers, with a wealth of information and teaching resources. One neat resource of theirs that I recently learned about through Doug Peterson is their flip book maker. Read Write Think's flip book maker provides a template for students to use to create and print a ten page flip book. Students can use the flip book maker to design pages that contain various combinations of text and images. The flip book maker provides drawing tools that students can use to create original drawings to illustrate their stories.Applications for EducationRead Write Think's flip book maker is a nice little tool that elementary school students could use to create short fairy tales and other fiction stories to print and share with their parents.
Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos
WeboWord - Vocabulary Visualized
Three Ways the Brain Creates Meaning
MeeGenius - Great Tool for Elementary Teachers
I came across MeeGenius while surfing (is that still a proper term?) the Internet. It is a collection of books meant for younger students, many of the books with titles we are all familiar with. First thing I noticed is that you can personalize the books, meaning you can input other names for the main characters. So like in the book "Jack and the Beanstalk" I was able to put my son's name in place of Jack and other members of my family in the place of other characters.
Right now there are 27 books available for your reading pleasure. If you don't make any personalizations, the software will highlight each word and read the book aloud to the students in your classroom. Could be a great way for reading comprehension. I found the digital voice to be very easy to listen to...not the usual digitized computer voice we are used to hearing.
Read Print - Free Online Books, Poems, Short Stories
Read Print is a site dedicated to finding Books, Poems, and Shorts Stories online and for completely free! You can search by author and title to find what you are looking for. Just on the main page, I saw several that I know are very useful for educators. You can search for Essays, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Plays, Poetry, and Short Stories. For those schools struggling with textbook cost, Read Print might be a great option depending on what students are reading.
When you visit the main page it has a list of the top 250 authors; so to see if this site has an author you are studying that would be a great starting point. Another great section is quotes. You can search for quotes by an author or on a certain subject. What is also great is that the site offer biographical information about the authors as well.
Read Print also has a reading mode that provides a way to easily read each chapter. The negative, there are ads throughout the text, but they have to pay for the site some how. Read Print seems to be a very thorough site for online reading, especially for classrooms strapped for cash to purchase books.
MeeGenius - Great Tool for Elementary Teachers
I came across MeeGenius while surfing (is that still a proper term?) the Internet. It is a collection of books meant for younger students, many of the books with titles we are all familiar with. First thing I noticed is that you can personalize the books, meaning you can input other names for the main characters. So like in the book "Jack and the Beanstalk" I was able to put my son's name in place of Jack and other members of my family in the place of other characters.
Right now there are 27 books available for your reading pleasure. If you don't make any personalizations, the software will highlight each word and read the book aloud to the students in your classroom. Could be a great way for reading comprehension. I found the digital voice to be very easy to listen to...not the usual digitized computer voice we are used to hearing.
Read Print is a site dedicated to finding Books, Poems, and Shorts Stories online and for completely free! You can search by author and title to find what you are looking for. Just on the main page, I saw several that I know are very useful for educators. You can search for Essays, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Plays, Poetry, and Short Stories. For those schools struggling with textbook cost, Read Print might be a great option depending on what students are reading.
When you visit the main page it has a list of the top 250 authors; so to see if this site has an author you are studying that would be a great starting point. Another great section is quotes. You can search for quotes by an author or on a certain subject. What is also great is that the site offer biographical information about the authors as well.
Read Print also has a reading mode that provides a way to easily read each chapter. The negative, there are ads throughout the text, but they have to pay for the site some how. Read Print seems to be a very thorough site for online reading, especially for classrooms strapped for cash to purchase books.
GooReader - Read Google Books On Your Desktop
Google Books is a great resource for locating books and periodical articles that you can read online for free. You can even put those books and articles into your blog or website. (Get directions here). As great as Google Books is for locating materials, it's visual appeal could use some work. That's where GooReader comes into the picture.
GooReader is a desktop application for locating, reading, and saving materials from Google Books. The visual interface of GooReader is much nicer and should be easier on the eyes for many people. If you choose to upgrade to a paid plan, GooReader will allow you to print titles. But if you don't upgrade, remember that you can print directly from Google Books for free. GooReader is currently only available for Windows. A Mac version is in development.
Watch a video overview of GooReader below.
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Applications for Education
GooReader could be a good resource for reading and literature teachers who need access more titles than they or their students can find in local libraries.
“World Adventure Kids”
Jason Renshaw has unveiled his long-awaited “Choose Your Own Adventure” series titled “World Adventure Kids.” It’s a neat interactive video audio book, and there are going to be quite a few of them.
GooReader - Read Google Books On Your Desktop
Google Books is a great resource for locating books and periodical articles that you can read online for free. You can even put those books and articles into your blog or website. (Get directions here). As great as Google Books is for locating materials, it's visual appeal could use some work. That's where GooReader comes into the picture.GooReader is a desktop application for locating, reading, and saving materials from Google Books. The visual interface of GooReader is much nicer and should be easier on the eyes for many people. If you choose to upgrade to a paid plan, GooReader will allow you to print titles. But if you don't upgrade, remember that you can print directly from Google Books for free. GooReader is currently only available for Windows. A Mac version is in development.
Watch a video overview of GooReader below.
Popout
Applications for Education
GooReader could be a good resource for reading and literature teachers who need access more titles than they or their students can find in local libraries.
Jason Renshaw has unveiled his long-awaited “Choose Your Own Adventure” series titled “World Adventure Kids.” It’s a neat interactive video audio book, and there are going to be quite a few of them.
Book Glutton
BookGlutton is a website that provides the ability to read books online. It has eBooks that would be of interest to educators. I saw "The Scarlet Letter" and "A Tale of Two Cities" on the website for starters. Several of the books are available for free, others are available for purchase. In the end it offers a way for students to read books for your class without having to go to the library or purchase a book. 1:1 schools could really benefit from this site when reading books in class. They do have a search option if you want to try out the site for books in your class. As they always say, you can't beat free.
Nook Study from Barnes & Noble is Now Live
Last month I reported on a free study tool from Barnes & Noble calledNook Study. Nook Study is now available for free as a free download for Mac and Windows. Nook Study gives students access to more than 500,000 free ebooks. Students can also purchase and download other titles.
Nook Study provides more than just ebooks for students. Nook Study provides students with the ability to sort titles according to the courses they're taking. Students can use Nook Study to highlight and annotate ebooks.Nook Study also provides a search function that enables students to highlight a word then in one click search for it on Google, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, and other online reference tools.
Book Glutton
Last month I reported on a free study tool from Barnes & Noble calledNook Study. Nook Study is now available for free as a free download for Mac and Windows. Nook Study gives students access to more than 500,000 free ebooks. Students can also purchase and download other titles.Nook Study provides more than just ebooks for students. Nook Study provides students with the ability to sort titles according to the courses they're taking. Students can use Nook Study to highlight and annotate ebooks.Nook Study also provides a search function that enables students to highlight a word then in one click search for it on Google, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, and other online reference tools.
Read Print
Read Print is an interesting site that is ideal for library and reading teachers/students. This is a site that contains 1000's of free online, book, poems, and resources for anyone to use.
MeeGenius is an online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Books can be personalized with students names, just answer a few quick questions and the book is rewritten for you. Each book comes with audio playback and word highlighting, perfect for beginning or struggling readers to read along.
From http://www.ilearntechnology.com/
StoryCorps
from The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness by noreply@blogger.com (Zimmer557)
http://storycorps.org/
Everyone has a story. Sometimes, everyone has a story to tell. The problem is that throughout history, there has never been someone or something to document people's stories so that we have a historical perspective from many people. StoryCorps hopes to improve our ability to document peoples thoughts and lives.
The mission of StoryCorps is "to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives." Every story will be recorded to a CD for free. It is also stored at the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress. Recently they released an iPhone App that allows you to listen and share stories. It only has tips for recording your own, no recording from the Phone yet.
Beatrix Potter http://www.peterrabbit.com/us/index.asp has captured the imaginations of countless children with her classic Peter Rabbit tales. The World of Peter Rabbit is as enchanting as the stories, bringing Beatrix Potter’s incredible artistry to life. The whole site is fashioned into a virtual popup book where students can meet the characters, watch videos of the stories, play games, and find fun things to make and do offline. Students can play a game of find Peter (before Mr. McGregor does!), take part in an Easter egg hunt, collect snowflakes to earn special downloads, help Peter find his way through a maze, and play a vegetable picking game. Students can read character descriptions of each of Beatrix Potter’s characters and even watch video clips of Peter Rabbit. Students can also create their very own interactive Peter Rabbit puppet show. They can star in the puppet show by uploading a picture of themselves or a favorite pet.
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/storymaker.swf
Grades 1-7 will love to make stories appear!!
http://www.smories.com/
Smories
from Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero by dkapuler
Smories is a fun site that I just learned about from Zarco English. This is a site where kids read stories for kids. My only gripe is that I wish it would've had pictures to go along w/ the story telling. This would be ideal for the younger kids.
Wired for Books
from Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero by dkapuler
http://wiredforbooks.org/
Wired for Books is an excellent site for pieces of literature such as poems, plays, lectures, and interviews. I'd like to thank the wonderful blog ZarcoEnglish, for reviewing such an interesting site.
What makes WFB so great for educators is the ability to hear/download interviews of these great authors and even view some of these stories by clicking on KidsCorner.
http://www.epubbud.com/
from iLearn Technology
ePub Bud is a new online application that lets you create your own eBooks for free. It seems quite easy to use, and lets you grab images off the web as well.
Free Printable Books
from Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... by Larry Ferlazzo
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/07/31/the-best-sources-for-free-accessible-printable-books/
http://www.projectexplorer.org/
from Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero by dkapuler
Project Explorer is a great site for providing online adventures broken down by chapters. Each chapter is broken down in different categories that pertain to different countries. These categories contain a number of media types such as video, audio, and photos.
Choose your own adventure: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/05/02/the-best-places-to-read-write-choose-your-own-adventure-stories/
http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/leadingtoreading.htm
It contains a collection of stories, songs and games. The animated stories highlight each word as it is spoken which makes it easier for students to read along. The story can be paused to focus on teaching points. The collection of stories for school age children is limited at this stage although I expect it will continue to grow. The site is very easy for non-readers to navigate as each option is spoken when you hover your mouse over it.
from Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom by Kathleen McGeady
Signed Stories http://www.signedstories.com/page/index.cfm
It’s got lots of great books to see in sign language and subtitles. Hearing family and friends can listen to the stories too. You can all watch together! We’ll add more books. So keep coming back to see what’s new.
from Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom by Kathleen McGeady
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_pie.htm
After students learn about the poetry, they have a chance to create their own poem with the Poetry Idea Machine interactive.
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/books/?lt=stacks/nav/books_and_authors
Allow your students to use The Stacks to find new reading material, and to interact with other students about the books they are reading. Many of the activities would make nice extensions to your curriculum. The choose your own adventure game would be fun to play as a whole class on the interactive whiteboard.
http://www.overdrive.com/
Digital Library Reserve®
The leading download service for 9,000 public libraries worldwide
School Download Library™
OverDrive® School Download Library® extends your school library with eBook and audiobook downloads from your school's website. It's based on a proven platform currently serving 9,000 public libraries worldwide: Students install free software on their computers, browse the secure website for assigned reading or recreational titles, check out their selections with an existing library card (or other ID), then download audiobooks and eBooks to their desktop or laptop computer. They can even transfer most titles to supported mobile devices like iPod® and Sony® Reader™!
AudioBook Classroom™
Listen on every school computer
http://emedialibrary.lib.overdrive.com/7C3F9E35-826C-4571-8404-858BFDA5D418/10/384/en/Help-Reader-Format25.htm
From iLearn technology:
http://www.onlineaudiostories.com/
Online Audio Stories is an impressive collection of free audio stories online. The audio books are all free and downloadable. The online version of the story includes accompanying text for students to follow along with. The short stories will transport students on a fun adventure of listening to fairy tales and classics. The extensive collection includes stories by Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Brothers Grimm, Tales of Time, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Bronte, Aesop, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Joseph Jacobs, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, William Shakespear, and many more. The stories are read with excellent voice, inflection, and timing, making them a joy to listen to.
http://storynory.com/
Every week Storynory publishes a new audio story read by Natasha whose lovely voice will charm and beguile you.
We draw on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson.
We seek out unusual stories from around the world.
We have the entire audio book of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
And Storynory brings you original children's stories including Prince Bertie the Frog, The Ordinary Witch, and Theo the Monkey
http://www.audible.com/
Come join the millions of listeners who've discovered a new way to receive the entertainment, information, and knowledge they seek. In addition to audiobooks, we're home to magazines, radio shows, podcasts, stand-up comedy, and speeches from icons who shape our culture, politics, and business world. We feature the best narrators interpreting books by top authors.
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