Free Electronic Text Online

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm  (wonderful list of electronic books!)

http://gigglepoetry.com/poetryfun/poetryfun.html (lots of fun poetry for kids)

https://matnonline.pbwiki.com/E-Book+Resources (Dinell Stuckey’s list of e-books on Beth Poss’s wiki

http://pbskids.org/ (e-books and songs with lyrics for young children)

http://www.afro.com/children/myths/myths.html (myths and fables from around the world)

http://www.bemboszoo.com/ (terrific electronic abc animated animal book)

http://www.kidsclick.org/ (web site to find text for various grade levels)

http://www.letssingit.com  (song lyrics)
http://www.lyrics.astraweb.com  (song lyrics)

http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/books.htm (electronic books from England)

http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/browserbooks/ (online books for beginning readers)

http://www.starfall.com/  (electronic books for young readers)

http://www.storylineonline.net/ (great site of online books with text read by actors from Screen Actors Guild)

http://thinkfinity.org/PartnerSearch.aspx?orgn_id= (web site to find text for various grade levels)

http://tarheelreader.org/ (WONDERFUL source for creating and finding e-books for beginning readers)

http://www.tumblebooks.com/ (check your local library to see if they have a subcription)

http://www.weread.org/kids/download.asp  (electronic books; Dog in a Mailbox and Good Day I’m A are my favorites)

http://www.ipl.org/ (e-books that can be downloaded and read by a talking word processor)

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/  (17,000 free e-books that can be downloaded and read by a talking word processor)

Free Readers’ Theater Scripts

http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html ( Readers’ Theater scripts)

http://literacyconnections.com/ReadersTheater.php

http://www.readerstheatre.ecsd.net/collection.htm  (easy Readers’Theater scripts)

http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=carrick/index.html  (information about implementing Readers’ Theater and links to Readers’ Theater sites)

http://www.scriptsforschools.com/ (sample scripts for themes such as Black History)

http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm  (online texts for Readers’ Theater)

http://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/podcasts/ (podcast by Dr. Tim Rasinski  about Readers’ Theater)

http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/ (lots of Readers’ Theater scripts)

Free Technology Web Sites That Can Support Literacy/Communication

http://animoto.com/ (site for adding music to slides to make video)

http://blog.zamzar.com/2007/02/16/support-launched-for-youtube-video-conversion/ (allows saving of YouTube videos)

http://elluminate.com/ (site for virtual classroom)

http://www.dimdim.com/ (site for virtual classroom)

http://jott.com/Login.aspx (site for creating notes using speech that is converted into text)

http://makebeliefscomix.com/ (site for making comics)

http://readinglady.com/index.php?name=Downloads  (information on comprehension strategies, writing, poetry and more)

http://speechable.com/ (site for adding speech bubbles to photos)

http://voicethread.com/#home (site for creating stories using digital photos with free account for educators)

http://www.altavista.com/ (search engine good for finding pictures and movies)

http://www.blogger.com/start (site for creating a blog)

http://www.bubbleply.com/Default.aspx (site for adding captions or speech bubbles to videos)

http://www.capscribe.com (web site for adding captions to Quick Time video—Mac only)

http://www.ebuddies.org  (organization that will pair email buddies with students who have disabilities)

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ (web site for free photographs)

http://www.freegabmail.com/Composer/Composer.html (easy to use site for video email)

http://www.gabcast.com (site for creating free audio blog messages)

http://www.gaggle.net  (site for free email for kids)

http://www.gcast.com/?nr=1&&s=362678401 (siste for making podcasts)

http://www.google.com (general search engine including for pictures and videos)

http://www.hallmark.com/    (web site for making e-cards)

http://www.idiomconnection.com (lots of examples of idioms)

http://www.photoshow.com/home (site that can be used for making electronic books; can add music and text)

http://www.springdoo.com/central/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fdefault.aspx (site for making video and audio emails)

http://www.statcounter.com/ (counter that you can place on web page; gives you graphs, maps, etc. of who is viewing the site)

http://www.oovoo.com/ (site for video conversations)

http://www.skype.com/ (site for instant messaging and video conversations)

http://www.visuwords.com/fullsize.php (online graphical dictionary)

http://www.voki.com/ (site for creating talking animated characters that can be embedded in blogs; message can be recorded or typed with conversion to synthesized speech)

http://www.wiziq.com/ (site for virtual classroom)

http://www.yackpack.com/ (site for setting up audio emails and audio instant messaging)

http://www.zoho.com/ (online collaborative writing tools; Notebook can be used to create online books)

http://www.route66literacy.org/demo/index.shtml (online literacy program for adolescent beginning readers)

Literacy Resources/Examples

http://amazon.com/ (Search for a book. Hover your mouse over the picture of that book and you can find out readability levels, vocabulary, etc. of that book.)

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/rtrieger/490i/niftyfifty.htm (Nifty Thrifty Fifty)

http://www.americanreadingforum.org/yearbook_page/yearbook_page.htm (online literacy journal)

www.couragecamps.org/sessionpages/literacycamp_2006/literacycamp2006.html (site for a Literacy Camp for struggling readers)

http://del.icio.us/koppenhaverd  (David Koppenhaver’s social bookmarks)

http://faculty.rcoe.appstate.edu/koppenhaverd/ (David Koppenhaver’s web site)

http://www.furl.net/members/koppenhaverd/  (furl by David Koppenhaver with lots of great web sites) CREDIT: Many of these references were taken from David Koppenhaver’s web site and social bookmarks

http://www.hpjh.blogspot.com (blog written by students with disabilities)

http://www.hpjhmn.pbwiki.com (wiki about the book Building Wings written by students with disabilities at Highland Park Junior High)

http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php (site for getting readability levels)

http://www.ldonline.org/ (articles and webcasts )

http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/DBhomepage.htm (lots of great resources from Gretchen Hanser’s Deaf Blind Project

http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/index.html (Karen Erickson’s site. Great handouts and videos.)

http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/Publications/subgroups.htm  (free download of National Reading Panel 2000 report)

http://www.prel.org/products/re_/assessing-fluency.htm ( nice article on assessing fluency by Tim Rasinski)

http://www.readingrockets.org/index.php (reading resources)

http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/ ( helpful articles on literacy research)

http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/ (information about Four Blocks Literacy Model)

http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/leadership_2004.html  (great article by Patricia Cunningham about phonics including how to do “making words”

http://www.writeexpress.com/online.html (rhyming dictionary)

Miscellaneous Technology Sites

http://www.badongo.com/ (free site for sending large files)

http://www.blinklist.com/ (bookmarks with picture of site)