Free online books to read. Some of the books also contain audio links in which you can hear the book being read. Great practice for anyone learning to read. I like these because adults who may not be able to read to their children can enjoy the experience with their children and learn also.
Great because it has selections for young adults as well and older and younger children and some of the stories have audio. It also offers a more student friendly type quizzes section to self-check comprehension.
Actors from the Screen Actors Guild reading stories for children a-loud. A helpful activity for ELL and all beginning learners so that they can hear English spoken using stories they will enjoy!
This site has actors reading stories, which is a wonderful model for building fluency and especially for experiencing prosody (expressive reading). I like it best because it has some of my childhood favorites like Harry, the Dirty Dog (read by Betty White!). There is also a good story for Black History month (White Socks Only).
A Beginning reading website in comic book format. Syntax, phonics and other reading and writing lessons via the comic book medium. A fun reading learner tool for the comic book lover.
This a a great resource! Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The material on the website does have a cost; however, it does offer free samples to look at.
Younger students (K-2) love this website. It has interactive phonics books that the children can manipulate and an emphasis on playing with words and letters.
Great website for students. Helps them learn phonics and their sounds. Also, helps English language learners and struggling readers. Books are read to the children.
This website not only offers a large collection of stories online, but users can also download the audio version for free and burn them to a CD. Choices include a huge assortment of fairy tales, classics and original stories. Although this is a wonderful service, children are unable to interact with the stories since it is strictly a reading site.
This website offers many different stories to choose from. All sorts of lovable characters are included in the interactive stories. From the BBC, users can read aloud, print, color or listen.
Great collection of printables, lesson plans, and activities. Great resources on reading comprehension , phonics, literature, story analysis, alphabetizing, reading games and puzzles, and more
This is a resource page for adults to encourage the benefits of reading early and often to their children. I like this site because it also has a tag for Spanish as well. Great resource for beginning readers, ELL students, and parents as well.
This is my favorite author's website for his children's books. His most recent books, The Graveyard Book, Coraline and Odd and the Frost Giants, were written for older children. You can watch the author read eight chapters of The Graveyard Book on videos he has posted to the site.
This website has links to all of their children's television programs including Between the Lions and Sesame Street. It is easily navigated by children because everything is audio.
Part of a PBS series on teaching young readers, this portion of the series deals with teaching reading to children who are English Language Learners. Helpful for both parents and teachers.