Digital Reading (websites for ATIA)

A long list of fables and fairy tales. Some of them are accompanied by a recording of a student reading.

A collection of online books with animation, interactive features, and sometimes audio. There is no search feature, but the list of books is short and sorted by young, older, and young adult age groups.

Provides character analysis, historical background, themes, famous quotes, pictures, FAQs, modern connections, essays, bibliography, and further readings on hundreds of books. Although you must pay to have access to all the support materials, you can see useful excerpts. You can choose to buy the support materials for a single book, or have a site-wide subscription.

These are PDFs that you cannot fill out on line, but you can print them and get ideas from them. You can also download them in Spanish.

All teachers should be familiar with the resources offered on this site sponsored by PBS. It includes easily accessible digital media, interactive resources, lesson plans, online professional development, technology how-tos, resources for families, and more.

Members can download e-books in text and audio formats for loan. When the loan period expires, the book will no longer work. Many public libraries give access to their members for free

A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that can be integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves. Three different formats for your convenience: HTML, Word, and PDF

a sizable list of fables written at the 1st or 2nd grade level.

Read these stories from ancient China and learn a lesson at the end of each one. If you get stuck on a word, just click it to hear it read out loud.

This is like video wikipedia for dictionaries. People can upload videos which define words. A great way to get kids to think about vocabulary and the meaning of words at a deeper level.

an international challenge in which students conduct research about their local communities and then publish their findings on the World Wide Web

These short booktalks are intended to be used primarily by school library media specialists and teachers to hook students on books. There are also links to a blog, podcasts, and audio excerpts of books K-12.