33 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 2. This nationwide observance coincides with the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Here are some great reading websites for students K-5 (check here for an updated list):

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 audiobooks
8. Starfall
9. Stories read by actors
10. Stories to read for youngsters
11. Stories to read–II
    

Here are seventeen 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. Class Literature
4. Great Books Online by Bartleby
5. International Library
6. 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.
7. Librivox–free public domain audio books
8. Loyal Books
9. Many Books–Over 33,000 ebooks that can be browsed by language, author, title. 
10. Mighty Book–focused on student reading
11. One More Story–focused on student reading
12. Online Books Page
13. Open Library
14. OWL Eyes–for the classics
15. RAZ Kids–wide variety of reading levels, age groups, with teacher dashboards
16. Tumblebooks (fee)–focused on student reading
17. Unite for books (free) — gorgeous, easy-to-navigate site.

And finally, try these 5 apps for iPads:

1. Action Words–learn action words with amazing pictures
2. Berenstein Bears
3. Dr. Seuss
4. Reading Raven–personalized to child, based on adventure theme
5. SparkleFish–a hilarious audio story completion game that will have you laughing uncontrollably

More reading resources:

Common Core Reading lesson plans

I need reading resources for ELL/ESL

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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, an Amazon Vine Voice, 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.