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Exemplar text supports broken into grade level bands. Useful for folks looking for texts to implement Common Core (or just provide easier text versions of regular classroom texts.

Read aloud by two children (clearly actors, but still cute). Text clearly visible. Excellent digital text experience for developing readers. Fun for others.

Couple dozen digital storybooks online in three age categories: young children, older children, and young adults. Texts and illustrations. No built-in read-aloud option, but can't beat the price.

41 different K-1 texts read aloud with visible text. Great support for beginning readers.

Absolutely fabulous reading of Chris Raschka's "Charlie Parker Played Be Bop." Text visible throughout the reading. Great for independent (or teaching) experience to connect the words in the text to the sounds of Bebop jazz.

The best app for digital language experience that I have seen yet. Take pictures of experience with your iPad/iTouch/iPhone, import them into Click n' Talk, add text, record a student or anyone else reading the text or talking about the picture. Voila, personalized book in minutes for emergent or beginning reader.

Slick iPad app intended for teaching, and certainly useful in that regard. But think about the writing and digital storytelling possibilities. Write or draw freehand, import photos or images, type text, record audio, share via email. Saves as a video (which captures process).

"Hi, Fly Guy" by Tedd Arnold read aloud online. Text easy to follow while listening.

Jazzy rendition (based on "This Old Man") of the children's book, "This Jazz Man," sung by Miss Nina.

Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) storybooks in app form. Stories are told in ASL and English. Built on bilingual learning principles.