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Flamingnet's mission is to promote reading and writing among young adults; making reading more fun by highlighting books that young adults may enjoy and fostering literacy through charitable work.

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The teacher selects a story start or inserts his or her own first chapter, and the students use their skills, knowledge and creativity to forward the piece. One chapter at a time, the students write, read, and then vote on the submissions they like the most. The winning submission is added to the piece and the process continues. The teacher determines the total number of chapters to be completed, and when the competition is over a new book is ready to be published.

Goodreads is a privately run "social cataloging" website started in December 2006 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur. The website permits individuals to sign up and register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists. It also allows users to create their own groups of book suggestions and discussions. In December 2007, the site had over 650,000 members and over 10,000,000 books added. As of July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and 30 employees.

This lesson focuses on domain extensions and the Google Search Syntax sit as well as how to turn on reading levels in Google Advanced Search.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, documentarian Ken Burns, along with numerous partners, has launched a national effort to encourage everyone in America to video record themselves reading or reciting the speech.The collection of recordings housed on this site will continue to grow as more and more people are inspired by the power of history and take the challenge to LEARN THE ADDRESS.

Curiyo is a browser extension, available for Firefox and Chrome, that makes it easy to quickly find definitions, videos, pictures, and related reference materials for any word you select in your browser. When you're reading an article online and come across a word that you don't recognize or a word that you're just curious about, long-click on it and a pop-up box containing definitions, pictures, videos, and more will appear.

"Millions of people use Flipboard to read and collect the news they care about, curating their favorite stories into their own magazines on any topic imaginable."

The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts free online art history texts. It has expanded to 390 volumes. All of the books can be read online or downloaded as PDFs (warning, some of them are massive files). You can search through the catalog of books by thematic category, format, and publication type. And, of course, you can search through the books by title, author, and keyword.

LMSs use this to create bingo cards for book fair. They use book titles from the Scholastic brochure given to students. Each homeroom teacher (in elem. I would give to each teacher) gets a bingo card. I read 2 or 3 titles each day of book fair over the morning announcements. Teacher/class with winning card get a book for the classroom and a doughnut for breakfast.

Teaching Library is a place to find free teaching ideas and lesson resources, all linked to books that can be used in the classroom. Each book has ideas for uses in different areas of the curriculum, along with related video content and downloadable materials. You can browse by category or author.

Share highlights and annotations you make on eBooks and the Web.

Lots of resources including activity pages, books and reading, collection development, crafts, homework and reference tools, and professional improvement from the Nebraska Library Commission

Recommends books for teens.

This free news source allows you to select current news articles that are written in 4 different lexile levels.