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Site used for students to read, listen to, or watch books online. It pairs fiction and non-fiction books of various topics and you can choose whether you want to watch the story or read the story. Some of the books even come in Spanish! All you need is your library card to use the site.

committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.

Novels, poems, non-fiction, short stories, children's literature -- read out loud.

Novels, poems, non-fiction, short stories, children's literature -- read out loud.

Protagonize is a community that writes collaborative interactive fiction. One person starts the story, and others post chapters to the story that lead it in different direction. In the end it becomes an evolving story in which everyone can participate.

Artifacts & Fiction is a professional development workshop series that guides teachers through pairing primary source materials with American literature texts. It draws from the online archive and video series of Annenberg Media's American Passages.

"All of the books available for online reading are children's picture books appropriate for children through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a range of authors, and an equal balance between read-alouds and books for independent readers. We'll be adding news books every month, together with special seasonal offerings. We are dedicated to delivering award-winning books empowering you to read and share beautiful stories with children in your life. With age-appropriate content for young readers, our goal is to create memories that will last a lifetime."

"This new template allows you to create fictional "status updates" that can then be printed off for display purposes. Students could be asked "

25 short, engaging stories for K-4 readers that feature a variety of fiction an dnonfiction and 10 flesh-kincade reading levels

Inanimate Alice an online graphic novel for ages 10-14, includes teacher resources. It also addresses the CC standard Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g.,graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

"In these essays, members of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on K-12 education, joined by several keen-eyed observers, blend prediction with prescription to paint a vivid picture of American primary and secondary education in 2030. What follows is necessarily speculative, and readers may judge portions to be wishful thinking or politically naïve. But none of it is fanciful-we're not writing fiction here-and all of it, in the authors' views, is desirable. That is to say, the changes outlined here would yield a more responsive, efficient, effective, nimble, and productive K-12 education system than we have today."

Various videos expressing opinions about where education will be in 2030.