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This article has a number of ideas tied to different iPad apps to be used in relation to reading. There are interesting ideas here even if you decide not to use an iPad. Some of the ideas, such as creating comic strips or dramatizing a scene from the book could easily be done with or without apps.

Funded by the NSF, contains digital versions of children's books from all over the world. There are books in many languages, some with translations. Searchable by region, topic, and level. Could be assigned as extra reading homework, or used for projects.

My English Lab by Pearson is a supplemental site to the North Star Listening and Speaking and Reading and Writing textbooks. With an access code provided in textbooks, students can access a class website. Similar to BlackBoard Learn, My English Lab provides students with a calendar for assignments and enables teachers to upload content. More than that, My English Lab has many related and supplemental resources pertaining to each unit in the corresponding textbooks. For example, when covering unit one in NorthStar 3 about Advertising on the Air, My English Lab gives students access to all of the recordings from the unit that a teacher might use in class. It also gives students flash card decks with the vocabulary for the unit and sometimes has extra exercises for the students to complete. Depending on the exercises, My English Lab will score these exercises to give students grades. The disadvantages of the site primarily relate to logistics. When students by used copies of their textbooks, the books might be missing the access code. Also, students must have access to computers to make use of the site outside of class time.

This website provides digital books, activities, bulletin board ideas, cultural activities and more. Many of them are free and there are some that are paid.

"A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books." I used this site when I was teaching preschool. It could also be used to teach language learners. However, because of the content, it should be used with beginners who are young. When I used this site it was mainly with children between 4 and 5 years old, and they absolutely loved it. Not only were they using a "big person toy" by being on the computer, but they were truly learning valuable language skills.