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Welcome to Great global reads for kids...Are you interested in books written by good authors from other countries?This wiki offers booklists of great reads for students aged 12 to 16 + suggested by school librarians around the world.Enjoy reading across the globe!

 Open Access Books   En internet hay muchos textos que están en el dominio público, pero también muchos autores y editores que publican versiones totales o parciales de sus obras en curso. Para algunos ellos es un sistema publicitario para crear una demanda de cara a  la venta del libro impreso, mientras que otros están más interesados en la presentación de su contenido a la mayor audiencia posible. Recogemos algunos de los sitios donde puedes encontrar libros electrónicos gratuítos que iremos completando progresivamente.

Love to read? Studying Literature? Want to revisit the classics? Cramming for a test? Read all the novels you want, anywhere, anytime, on any device, for free.

 is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: * Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects * Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers * Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts * Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

Conducting Literature Circle with mobile devices such as the iPad, not only provides immediate access to a diverse selection of books, but also to reference materials, research tools, interactive maps, and a slew of creation and dynamic notebook apps. Within this single device, students can quickly check the meaning of a word, run a quick background check on a historic event, or articulate their understanding of text with a range of multimedia apps. Teachers can now easily differentiate the processes students can use to demonstrate understanding.

If you look way up at the top right hand corner on the homepage of abookandahug.com, you'll see Register An Account and Log In. These are great tools for getting kids to make and keep lists, to make lists with friends which promotes what I call social reading, or for a class or an entire school to create a shared list. I've had mothers come and tell me that their daughters and their BFF's have made a list and are sharing it with each other. Brothers and families are doing the same thing. People do some wonderfully creative things when handed a tool with possibilities.

spelling games, lists by book and school, online tests and more

"Cool Sites for ESL Students suggested by the staff and students of the University of Illinois Chicago The Tutorium in Intensive English

"Bilingual Spanish - English Vocabulary, Quizzes, Audio lessons Russian - English Vocabulary, Quizzes More Links pages Links for Teachers - Lesson plans and activities for English teachers, ESL Teachers Boards, ESL jobs, chat rooms, ESL books, flashcards, ESL Worksheets and Lesson Plans, TEFL Article and other online resource for English teachers. " plus listening resources

I was just watching a ted talk by Alan November http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE&t=11m10s where he talks about a student who uses the site, as many do to write in the style of an author. Apparently there are a lot of kids who do it, motivation is intrinsic, their writing improves but most importantly they choose to do it and it is because they are published authors writing for the world, they have an audience, who reads there stuff and interacts with it.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: * Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, * Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, * View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, * Print out the stories and poems to make your own book."

Shakespeare is going digital. Notre Dame professor Elliott Visconsi has co-created a new app for the iPad called The Tempest that he says helps accelerate student learning by allowing them to develop deeper comprehension in less time than solitary reading. At the heart of the app is a social network that encourages students to communicate their interpretations and collaborate with others.

 Browse andComment Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. Announcements3/14/11: We are launching a restoration project in the spring of 2011 to fix up the broken content on the site. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we continue to restore the missing works. Please see the help section if you have any questions.