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See what your friends are reading. Create virtual bookshelves for your books to keep track of what you've read. Discuss your favorite books in a book club. Share quotes and book summaries with your friends. A fun way to find great books!

This is an awesome site for personal and classroom use! Create a virtual bookshelf to share what you've read, what you are reading, and what you want to read. Students can join book clubs, review books, and discuss with classmates.

i love this and have shared it with my friends, co-workers and students.

Raz-Kids is an online and print reading program. All their books you can print, show on the big screen, or read online. Each book comes with activity sheets and other extension activities. The online program allows kids to listen to a book be read to them or they can read it themselves. They are also able to take a comprehension quiz in the end. The program has levels A-Z and the teacher is able to place the student at the appropriate reading level. My students love the program, and they are in 5th grade. The readers for the online book read with such great expression, some of the images move and there is sometimes background noise to help students connect to what they are reading.

I also began using this program this year when I got a free year of it! It is great and I really want our school to get it for everyone next year. I love pulling up books on the smart board and letting students come up to point and read the books to us! So useful!

Thanks Amanda! I have added this to my DIIGO and plan to share it with my team.

This website has a variety of online books. They are free and have read aloud audio. Besides the stories there are other tools on the site that can be used. I have used this is my class to read an Arthur book that I did not have. Great resource!

This is a great online picture book site for elementary aged children. Arthur and Toot and Puddle stories are here!

This is a remarkable site. Access to free, great books for your students and an opportunity to earn free books for your classroom or others through the "Read for My School" campaign.

If you haven't registered an account and started using this site with your kids, the question becomes, "WHY NOT?!"

I use this site with my students and it really is great!

Younger kids' version of Lane Smith's earlier "It's a Book." Clever comparison of book to a computer.

Many wonderful free childrens books are available to read at Children's Storybooks Online. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens, through young adult.

Lots of children's books available here.

Many wonderful free children's books are available here. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens, through young adult.

The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.

This is a link to a blog from a teacher who did a webinar on student book publishing with links to Student Treasures Publishing where you can publish class books for free. Neat idea!

Barnes and Noble short reviews to 7 respectful books for middle grades level readers that include characters with ASD.

Video animation of much of Lane Smith's "It's a Book." Very clever.

StoryJumper: publish your own children's book.Storyjumper allows you to create online books using a variety of characters, scenes, and props. Teachers can create student accounts for them to have as like a file to store their stories. I thought this would be a neat way to provide online writing to support different reading elemnts (setting, characters, etc).

Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can find a book, take quizzes on what they've read, and earn prizes for their reading success. Start your reading adventure below or explore the site.

Tikatok is where you can transform imagination into stories and publish those stories into books to share with family and friends. You could have a classroom book published.

This is a free way to motivate kids to read. Kids can find a book, take quizzes on the book and earn prizes.Theres a teachers lounge too with lots of good resources.

A partnership with the University of Maryland's HCIL COLLEGE PARK, MD: A recent article in School Library Journal looks at the educational value of E-Books. ICDL is featured, and some interesting uses and studies of E-Books in schools are described. COLLEGE PARK, MD: The New York Times included StoryKit in their list of "top picks."

Interesting use of social networking to develop online reading community. You can add friends, rate books, gather books on your shelves. Would be far superior to book reports and dioramas my kids all had to do for years and years...

BigUniverse.com is an online tool that has both fiction and non fiction texts and picture books for pre-k to 8th grade. Students can also write their own stories and take quizzes on books they have read!

So cute! Another neat site where celebs read popular books to the kids! I love these sites and so do my students!

Students select a book and the book is read the the students by a famous actor.

Six areas of research supporting reading as an activity in different ways.