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35 Resources for Read Across America Day

Many people in the United States, particularly students, parents and teachers, join forces on Read Across America Day, annually held on March 2nd to coincide with the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Let’s celebrate with this take-off of his writing style, but about technology, reprinted with permission of Gene Zigler at Cornell University:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and you screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory, and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.

Copyright © Gene Ziegler

Email: [email protected]

--reprinted with permission © 6-28-09

Here are thirteen great reading websites for students K-5:

  1. Aesop Fables—no ads
  2. Aesop’s Fables
  3. Audio stories
  4. Childhood Stories
  5. Classic Fairy Tales
  6. Fairy Tales and Fables
  7. Listen/read–Free non-fic audio books
  8. Owl Eyes (classics)
  9. Starfall
  10. Stories read by actors
  11. Stories to read for youngsters
  12. Storyline
  13. Unite for Literacy

Here are twenty-two online libraries with a wide variety of free/fee books:

  1. Actively Learn–add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.
  2. Bookopolis–focused on student reading
  3. Books that Grow–read a story at many different reading levels
  4. Class Literature
  5. Epic–a reading library for kids, 15,000 books; most digital devices
  6. Free Books–download any of our 23,469 classic books, and read
  7. Great Books Online by Bartleby
  8. Gutenberg Project
  9. IBooks–amazing way to download and read books.
  10. International Library
  11. Internet Archive— Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
  12. Kindle–read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface.
  13. Librivox–free public domain audio books
  14. Loyal Books
  15. Many Books–Over 33,000 ebooks that can be browsed by language, author, title. 
  16. Online Books Page
  17. Open Library
  18. OWL Eyes–for the classics
  19. RAZ Kids–wide variety of reading levels, age groups, with teacher dashboards
  20. Reading Rainbow–library of books; free to try
  21. Tumblebooks (fee)–focused on student reading
  22. Unite for books (free) — gorgeous, easy-to-navigate site.

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Author: Jacqui
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
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