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The new ebook platform Zing offers thousands of free trade-book titles that students will want to read, including award-winning book and series titles from well-known authors, Spanish leveled books, and short texts, poems, and articles. On Zing you can browse for books by topic, language, or reading level and access the books anywhere-on desktops, laptops, tablets, and interactive whiteboard. Customizable teaching points within the books support students in developing the skills and strategies they need in order to comprehend the texts. In the Zing reader, students will find a built-in dictionary and tools for taking notes while they read. Zing also enables student progress monitoring and reporting to provide actionable data for teachers and schools.

100% free game for children learning to read (iPad version is not free; no android version available)

Watch this Broadcast of Tim Tebow reading Green Eggs and Hams on Read Across America Day

Over 100 news articles with questions related to vocab, word selection, sequencing, conclusions, etc. Differentiates by giving the option of reading full article, an abridged version and an outline. Having students examine the outline of the article could help them with their own outlining skills.

Reading Bear is the first free program online to teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English, all using innovative rich media.

News articles for grades K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. Teacher can assign articles and corresponding quizzes. How does it work? "Teachers register themselves and, after obtaining verifiable parental consent, register their students and associated class. Teachers assign user/screen names to students. TTribune populates passwords for each student user. Teachers then instruct their students to log on with the user name and password and read articles pre-selected by the Teacher. The Teacher encourages the students to post comments and may quiz the students on the material. Prior to any comment being posted, it is reviewed and approved by the Teacher. The Teacher can make edits and/or provide constructive feedback to the student that is only viewable to the student when he/she logs on. All quiz scores are delivered automatically to the Teachers to share with each student individually. With a student user account, students are only able to access their account, view the classroom page, Teacher instructions, review articles and provide comments. Students are not able to communicate directly with Teachers or other users."

Thousands of free books/audiobooks. Free for elementary teachers & librarians. Create individual profiles for each student to get personalized recommendations based on reading level & interests.

Digital tools for before, during and after reading strategies

Before, during and after reading strategies & downloads

This is the place to be when you are looking for ready-to-use booktalks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children or other information about children's literature.

Poem text is animated to encourage emphatic reading of poetry.

QR code site where you can type a 100 character message which is read out with a voice synthesiser when the code is scanned.

Common core aligned, leveled, cross-curricular informational texts (same article is written at 5 lexile levels) with quizzes. Students can highlight & annotate while reading passages online & teacher will see those annotations. Free teacher & student accounts, but all articles & quizzes are printable if you don't want students to use the online version.

Online resume generator from Read Write Think & Thinkfinity

For those teaching Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, this site has website-accessible or printable questions, activities, and resources. I've noticed a few errors in the web-based comprehension questions, but otherwise very helpful!

Password Game can be used to introduce or review words