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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!

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."

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

Tips and tricks for using e-Readers in the classroom.

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

Wide variety of audio books, some of them with accompanying pictures and/or text. Almost all free. Arranged in categories including alphabet resources, poetry, audio and video books, etc.

Wow! First-rate. William Joyce's latest collaborative fantasy effort. A must-see for teachers, book-lovers, fantasy-lovers. Wonderfully well-done.

Bookshare is an online library of digital books for people with print disabilities. Members can download books, textbooks, and newspapers in a compressed, encrypted file, then read the material using adaptive technology. Through an award from the federal Education Department, Bookshare offers free memberships to U.S. schools and qualifying U.S. students!

One of the easier free writing/publishing websites I've found.

Wonderful children's zoo animal alphabet book.

Scholastic BookFlix is a new interactive online literacy resource for Grades PreK-3 that pairs fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with classic nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic.

I love this site. We use it all the time.

One of my favorite tech videos of all time. Clever and funny portrayal of book as a new technology requiring help desk assistance.

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. Check out the free trial-- fabulous!

TIME FOR KIDS is a news magazine geared toward students in grades K-6. Timeforkids.com offers age-appropriate news stories and features about children's books, movies, the environment, science, world cultures and other high-interest topics. Students can find easy-to-use homework help, grammar and punctuation practice, writing tips and a flash-card maker. My kids like seeing whats going on in the world and we read it as a class. I know also, that our literacy program next year (Treasures) is using time for kids too!