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These sites offer various strategies to improve reading comprehension for students at all grade levels. Includes many online stories and questions to test reading comprehension. There is a reading comprehension inventory and research articles on this topic. Many pages can be printed out and used in the classroom. Some of the tips include KWL charts, story maps, word maps, and story pyramids. There are also links to eThemes Resources on graphic organizers, guided reading, and literature circles.

"LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3"

Children's Book Podcast - Children's book reviews and interviews with authors, illustrators, editors, publishers, teachers, librarians and more.

Speakaboos brings classic children's entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.

"This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."

"Welcome to our academic website which gives teachers, librarians, parents, and students a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects. Our site offers you: * abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books; * search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book; * weblinks for keywords so you can integrate your up-to-date content knowledge with our picture book resources. "