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This is a great reading app. It can import text in many formats ( great with Dropbox) and even read PPT and Keynote presentations. You can change the size of text. Hold on a word to see its definition (doesn't read the definition). Hold on a word then select text to create highlights, bookmarks, and notes. These appear in a separate list which, when accessed, takes you back to the original spot in the text and begins reading from that point. Great voices. This is one of the better reading apps I've found...just wish the definitions would read and the highlighted text would actually highlight instead of ending up in a different location. $9.99

How to read ebooks on the iPad using either ibooks or kindle. As an avid reader of books, I'm finding the experience of reading e-books on the 9.7" screen of the iPad worth at least half the price of the device,

Great set of stories for Xmas reading. Students can read the story or hear it read and/or print the story as colouring pages. The whole North Pole site has many activities but also some sections such as the toyshop which are basically advertising that links to online shopping.

Well-known stories read by professional actors. Shows the author reading with subtitles, then pans to pictures from the book. Outstanding quality.

Great list put together by Paul Hamilton for apps that support reading and writing. Also click to the main website to see apps that support multiple means of representation, expression, engagement.

Big Universe(R) is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and CONNECT with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend. Parents, teachers, kids, authors, and others can share and learn while they enjoy this educational and entertaining website.

Amazing site presented by the Coquitlam team at the UDL conference. Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4. Kids area has interactive activities for each strategy, teacher area features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

Shelfari is a social booksharing site with great possibilities for educational use. The interface is a bookshelf to which you add thumbnails of the books you have read or are reading. You can review and rate the books. This would be a great way for a t

Advanced search feature allows you to narrow Google Search by reading level. Paul Hamilton provides instructions in this blog post.

Twurdy is a new search engine that searches by reading level. Paul Hamilton blogged about it.

Excellent engaging and educationally sound instructional videos. This science site for grades 1-6 also has great accessibility options including visual, auditory and keyboard shortcuts. I learned about this from Paul Hamilton's October 20, 2008 post. According to Paul, Many of the activities include captioned video where the "captions" can be read aloud. Other activities use diagrams and interactive images to present material. All text can be read aloud, and can be repeated upon request.

A very large collection of instructions and/or graphic organizers for reading activties.

This is an amazing list of great articles about reading and re-defining literacy competence in the digital age.

You read a snippet of a story and then you click 'read more' at which time you are presented with unique paths to continue the story. You choose. If you wish you can then add to the story by grafting your own snippet onto the story. Popular snippets get ranked and continue, unpopular snippets disappear.

Online site lets you create storybooks collaboratively using artwork provided by the site. You can also share your creations and read books created by others.

Dade County's Project WebSIGHT is based on Reciprocal Teaching which uses the five strategies prediction, clarification, visualization, questioning, and summarizing in teaching reading. This site gives you the lesson plans and resources to implement this

The CAST UDL Editions are a set of free public domain novels that have been engineered with UDL principles. They contain leveled supports for text-reading, vocabulary and comprehension as well as story elements such as character and setting. These inter

This is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. (1000 and growing) Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.\n\nYou may write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or pictures you upload. Some of the books may be inappropriate, so have students select from your favourites.

Why not have Robert Munsch himself read books to your kids?

You can read many of their study guides online free.