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The Library. Tar Heel Reader book created from Maya Angelou quote.

Predictable structure, nice message, good text for helping beginning readers acquire sight words and reading confidence.

Remarkable resource for beginning readers, their families, and teachers of beginning readers. Tens of 1000's of digital books that can be read online with or without speech support or downloaded for use offline. Each book can be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Parents and professionals may write their own books as well, a great way to create materials targeted to the specific interests of a child or student.

I wonder how many kids with disabilities receive a book a month from birth to age 5? If you took Tar Heel Reader, http://tarheelreader.org/, books, printed them, put a simple cover on them, and a template in front, "This book belongs to _____," you could accomplish that with the millions this project requires.

Erin Sheldon, mother of child with Angelman syndrome, posted an open Dropbox folder of PowerPoint downloads of books her daughter likes. Nice resource if you want easy access and ability to print quickly.

This little girl has a great deal of difficulty with word identification. She is doing repeated reading of easy text to increase her sight word vocabulary, general fluency, and expression.