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Aesop’s Fables -
http://www.aesopfables.com/
Over 600 fables printed; some have images and audio (Real
Audio) available. |
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A
to Z Storybook
-
http://www.primarygames.com/storybooks/abc/a.htm
Interactive
alphabet book. |
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Bartleby -
http://www.bartleby.com/ Search for
children's and adult books on this site. |
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Between the Lions - PBS -
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html
Print and illustrated stories; each story leads to an
adventure of related games. |
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Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project -
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/
Original books have been scanned and translated into several
languages. No audio. |
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Children's Stories -
http://www.dreambox.com/storybox/ A
few stories. |
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Children's Storybooks Online -
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
- all grades Create a tales – children can choose their own
options to create their own stories; includes some activities
at the bottom of the page. |
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Classic Stories on Line -
http://www.lightupyourbrain.com/stories.html
Chuck Brown reads these stories in MP3 audio. You can read
along. |
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Clifford the Big Red Dog Interactive Stories -
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
Children get to play Tic-Tac-Toe while story is loading. |
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Free Books -
http://www.free-books.org/
To download MP3 books - the audio sounded robotic on my
computer, though. Worth a browse. There might be some auditory
learners who could really benefit from accessing this page. |
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International Children's Digital Library -
http://www.icdlbooks.org/ Almost 600
books have been digitized and are available online. No audio,
but scanned pages from actual books. |
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Internet Archive -
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Various collections of books that have been scanned and are
available online |
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Kids' Center -
http://www.literacyhour.co.uk/Literacy4/html/kids.html
A few books and activities available. No audio. |
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Kids' Corner -
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
Beatrix Potter's books. |
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KidsSites: Story Books
-
http://www.kidsites.com/sites-fun/stories.htm A long list
of links with brief annotations. |
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Lil'
Fingers Storybooks -
http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html
Text and images, no audio. Best suited for little ones. |
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Little Animals Activity Center -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml
Cute for the little ones. |
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Literactive -
http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp
Interactive books to download or read online |
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Mrs. Jones Free Emergent Printable Books -
http://www.netrover.com/~3384mary/storyall/index.html
Sources for printable books. |
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Online Books -
http://www.onlinebooks.ecsd.net/ An Alberta project for
emergent readers. |
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Online Books -
http://www.myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,24742-146190-27-4293,00.html
Wonderful links to great books - collected by a teacher. |
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Online Storytime -
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/onlinestory.htm
First School site has collected links with web resources and
centered activities around them. Good for preschool or
kindergarten. |
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Preschool Library -
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/preschool.asp?themeid=21
Stories are read aloud, student selects the next page arrow. |
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Reading A-Z Online
Books
-
http://www.readinga-z.com/ I've subscribed to this site
for 3 years now and it's worth every penny to download and
print books that are already leveled for the very emergent up
to fluent readers. It also includes benchmarks that you can
use for Running Record Assessments. The only challenge? Make
sure you download the assembly instructions - there's a trick!
 Carol's
Favorite - 2005
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Starfall -
http://www.starfall.com/ Primarily
designed for gr. 1 teachers but suitable for K-2.
Wonderful interactive site. The Starfall learn-to-read program
was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by
incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach
phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding
skills, and comprehension.
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Storyline Online -
http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation has created this video
streaming read-aloud by famous actors/actresses/authors. It is
"awesome"! The featured story is Polar Express read by Lou
Diamond Phillips. On the left margin is the access to previous
stories, and more stories. You could be here for hours...!
Carol's
Favorite - 2005
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StoryPlace
-
http://www.storyplace.org
Several online books and interactive activities for kids. |
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Storytime Online -
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/
Kennedy Center has prepared a few books that use Real Player
to match the text image with the audio. |
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Very Emergent
Readers
-
http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com/VeryEmergentReaders.html
Books that can be downloaded; links to other sites. |
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Links Only
Sites |
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Children's Storybooks Online -
http://www.magickeys.com/books/links.html
Links to all kinds of stories on the web – some in print, some
with background music. Good choices for gr. 2-3. |
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Electronic Books and Online Reading -
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm You could get lost in
this page for days- there are so many links and so many
possibilities… |
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Kids and Teens Online Stories -
http://www.ability.org.uk/kids_and_teens_online_stories.htm
Lots of links but not all links active; good print stories
available. |
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Online Children's Stories -
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html
As books become out-of-copyright, they are being shared
electronically. Here is a list of the classics. |
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The
Reading Matrix -
http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/
Cumbersome and awkward to use and search, but if you have the
time, there are hidden treasures buried... |
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Read-On Site -
http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/storiesontheweb/storiesontheweb.html
Beenleigs School in Australia – organized a list of online
books and grade level appropriateness. |
