RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

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!

This site is great to use in your classroom to show current events that are happening all around the world. It has news, book reviews put up by students, links to other sites and maps! Sign up for a free account!

OMG!! This site has it ALL! Students can read about world events, check out a map of story location, book reviews and links to other great web-sites. Will share with 4th grade team. Thanks Jamie!

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.

Another teacher and I at my old school spend hours typing all the words from the Words their Way books into spelling city. We completed the red, yellow, green, and blue books. This website has several free activities for students to work on to help them with their word patterns. The other teacher that helped me was Allison Eckard and the site link is under her name as she was the computer teacher who helped me set the account up. For now, the site is still up and running- I no longer teach at the school she is at, and I just hope she wont delete everything I had typed in for the patterns. Enjoy while it is still up and running :-)

K-1 magazine that can be read and/or listened to online.

Another resource to be aware of.

These are virtual 3 ring binders. They are organized by different topics and have tabs that you can click on to find information that you need. There are videos, text, pdf, images, webpages and more.

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.

Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005. The stories are delightfully read by professional actors. There are many different types of stories on this site.

This is a wiki page that has links to live binders by grade level and subject area. This is a great resource for teacher to use because the binders have already been found and organized for you. I found some great ideas to use in my classroom.

This wiki is awesome! I plan on introducing this technology to my team this month! Thanks, Kayla!

MeeGenius is the world's largest virtual store for enhanced children's books. Available as a website and an application, MeeGenius works across all platforms offering the largest selection of children's stories. Some are free while others are paid.

This website has WebQuest for grades K-12. The WebQuest are divided by grade level. There are WebQuest based on literacy instruction. There are quest on books and authors.

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!

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

Big Books and Online Stories

I added this to my on-line reading site!

You can use your photos or videos in animoto, add your own music, and change the background theme that all runs automatically. You can register as a teacher and get the paid subscription for free! I use this program in my class for book talk videos, and my students love using it!

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs. Behind the Lesson provides information and teaching resources for each strategy.

I have used this in my class!

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.

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.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.The reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

I have gotten really great reading strategies from this website.

This site has a ton of reading tips, strategies, lessons, technological resources, and activities geared to help parents, teacher, and all involved with teaching/learning reading! There are author interviews here as well!

This is great site, especially boys, who are most interested in graphic novel and comic type reading and writing. Here, kids can write and create their own comic styled writing and illustrations!

This is a cool site. You can make a bookl too! Free account.