WHERE TO FIND FREE READINGS

1. E-TEXTS

THE SMITHSONIAN’S TWEETTRIBUNE

Offers daily news articles from the AP that can be differentiated by Lexile levels.  https://www.tweentribune.com/

DIGITAL BOOK INDEX

A “meta-index” that provides links to more than 140K books. http://www.digitalbookindex.org/

FRONT ROW

400+ non-fiction articles at students' specific reading levels. Common Core Aligned questions. https://www.frontrowed.com/ela/

CLASSIC READER

3861 titles, many from famous authors like Dickens, Shakespeare, and D.H. Lawrence. Includes poetry, short stories and nonfiction. http://www.classicreader.com/.

OPEN CULTURE’S FREE eBOOKS

800 free ebooks for iPad, Kindle, etc. http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks

OPEN EBOOKS

The Open eBooks app provides kids from low-income households with access to a digital library of thousands of popular elementary, middle, and high school books. http://www.fbmarketplace.org/openebooks/

2. AUDIOBOOKS

OPEN CULTURE’S FREE AUDIOBOOKS

900 free mp3 popular audiobooks. http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

LIT2GO

Mp3 stories and poems, some with “related reading strategy.” https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

LIBRIVOX

Powered by volunteers, the site releases audio files of books in the public domain. https://librivox.org/

3. BOOKS

NATIONAL BOOK BANK

Provides free books, but you pay the shipping. (Hat tip to We Are Teachers) http://bit.ly/freebbooks

THE READING RESOURCE PROJECT

Free 100-book sets for Pre-K through second grade (must pay for shipping). http://www.lefbooks.org/reading_resource_project/

PROJECT GUTENBERG

56K eBooks to read online or display on pretty much any device. Check out the “top 100” section. https://www.gutenberg.org/

4. MULTIMEDIA

LISTEN AND READ

Scholastic’s site for early learners features 15 nonfiction read-along books that include images and sounds: http://teacher.scholastic.com/commclub/