Region 2 Digital Library
Electronic Books & Materials
Book Writing Materials
Predictable line books
http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/predict.html
Repeated Line Stories
http://www.aacintervention.com/repeatl.htm
My Own Bookshelf
Online Books
List Compiled by Nicole Peters, OTR
Preschool Library - Fun animation. Reads to you. Basically set up to click in one area (good for switch users).
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/preschool.asp
Lil' Fingers - Cute pictures and reads to you. The buttons move around but are big so good for kids learning to mouse. Fun little potty training story too!
http://www.lil-fingers.com/face/index.html
Cbeebies - This is a bbc page. Good for switch users. Reads to you. Very colorful. The buttons flash to give cues as to when to click to move on.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/
Storybook Online Network - Stories read aloud but advances on its own. Some nice stories for 3-5 grade. Also has audio files for some popular books
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/
The Children's Literature Web Guide - Books online but will need a screen reader. Some of the books are good for young adults.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storcont.html
Learning page.com - Need a screen reader. Buttons move around. Cute stories with colorful graphics. Need to join for free to access the stories and books online.
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/ewe_preview.html
An Online Library of Literature - Some nice stories for young adults (classics). Need a screen reader. No pictures.
http://www.literature.org/
Books are Cool - Most of these need screen readers. Some have real audio files. Some animation.
http://www.booksarecool.com/
Story Pop - Downloadable audio files. Need a player such as Real One. There are no pictures for the stories. Some great audio files with music and sound affects.
http://www.web-pop.com/musicpopstephen.html
The Kennedy Center Storytime Online - Has great fun and popular books such as Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day . Read by the authors. Need Real Player which shows the illustrations of the books and words. Automatically advances through the book.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/
What Did Toby See - A story online that a switch user can use to activate the audio tracks on each page but must mouse to another button to move to next page. Nice graphics.
http://users.nac.net/ronzalme/Toby/
Scholastic - Cute drawings with animation. Good for switch users with buttons to continue through story staying in one place.
http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/kids/storybook.htm
They also have cute interactive Clifford books. Good for beginning mousers.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
Incwell - Nice stories for elementary-young adult ages. Black and white pictures. Must click on small page numbers to move on. Reads to you.
http://www.incwell.com/ERW/Brave/index.html
Literature Project - Some great books and classics such as Tom Sawyer and Aesop's Fables . These have a minimal cost of 1.75 each to download. Each book is in a different form ( Adobe, Microsoft Reader, etc.). Clicking on the book gives you information about it (if it is interactive, viewing options, etc.).
http://www.literatureproject.com/recommended-ebooks/children-young-adults.htm
We Read - They have a few kids e-books with cute illustrations. Need Macromedia Flash Player to listen to the books. Good for switch users with buttons that do not move from page to page. It says that these are just samples and you can purchase others but I could not find the prices anywhere on the website.
http://www.weread.org/subscribe.htm
Project Gutenberg - Great site to find a wide variety of books for all ages. You have to download the book and then if you want it read outloud you need a screen reader.
http://promo.net/pg/
Mightybook - Very cute illustrations and books for young students. Automatically advances pages but a switch user can control the stop/play button which is located in the same place on each page. Some of the stories highlight the words or groups of words as they are read to you. They have a variety for many ages and have them broken into age groups. This site also has some great videos to access various topics. There are also some very cute and fun music videos and signalongs (a great relaxation song for kids). These too can be controlled easily by a switch user controlling pause/play. Also, there are some great books for parents and families regarding kids.
http://www.mightybook.com/home.htm
Intellitools - I thought I should put interlopes programs on here. This is just the activity exchange. There are many other pages with intellipics programs. This wasn't really what I was looking for but thought it really does fit into this category.
http://www.intellitools.com/
The following were sites added by the OT tech -sis listserv:
Audible.com - This site has downloads you can pay for.
http://www.audible.com/adbl/store/welcome.jsp
Start-to-Finish Books by DonJohnston - These too are ones you have to pay for.
http://www.donjohnston.com/about/stfbluereleasefrm.htm
Electronic Text Websites
- http://www.ldresources.com
- http://www.ldonline.com
- http://www.accessiblebookcollection.org/
- http://www.gladwell.com/
- http://www.gutenberg.net/
- http://www.ipl.org/
- http://www.netlibrary.com/
- http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html
eBook Libraries
The following list represents only a small portion of the free eBook libraries available today.
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Abacci Books: http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp
Digital text versions of classic literature with reviews from Amazon (txt & .lit).
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex or http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Site contains a catalog with roughly 2,000 links of e-texts, located on various servers.
American Library Association http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/lit.html
700+ SITES for CHILDREN covering Literature and Language
Aportis Library: http://www.aportis.com/library/index.html
over 5000 "AportisDoc" or "DOC" format
Audio Books for Free: http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp
Over 300 audio books (as MP3 file) available for free download. Some texts available as unabridged edition.
Baen Free Library: http://www.baen.com/library/
over 45 relatively new science fiction books in Reader, Palm, Rocket, and RTF.
Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/
Classic books and resource/reference texts in html.
Bibliomania: http://www.bibliomania.com/
Over 2000 texts of classic literature, book notes, references, and resources in html format.
Blackmask Online: http://www.blackmask.com/
over 10,000 texts in a variety of formats: .lit, .html, .pds, etc.
BookRags http://www.bookrags.com/index.html
Book notes and over 1500 novels (HTML) available.
Books2GoLibrary.com: http://www.books2golibrary.com/ebooks_free.html
ebooks for Palm, Pocket PC or desktop PC
CIA Publication Library: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/index.html Including the World Fact Book with information on every country in the world.
Classic Book Library: http://classicbook.info/index.html
Over 125 books in seven genres done in HTML page by page format.
Concordances of Great Books http://www.concordance.com/
about 600 literary works
CyberRead Free Books: http://www.cyberread.com/free_ebooks/free_catalg.asp
Digital Text Project http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/digitexts/index.html
Links to great books
DotLit: http://www.dotlit.com/
only .lit files for MS Reader
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
thousands of xml, html, Reader, and Palm texts.
Elegant Solutions Software Company eBooks: http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm
MS Reader books
The English Server's Fiction Collection: http://eserver.org/fiction/
works of and about fiction
The Franklin Free Library: http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary/
1000+ text and HTML files
Free Library of Classics: http://www.information-resources.com/Library/library.html
over 200 html formatted classics.
Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/div/books
links to over 20,000 titles
Litrix Reading Room: http://www.litrix.com/readroom.htm
Over 300 public domain titles in HTML chapter format.
Created by Cornell University Library, MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history (antebellum through reconstruction periods). This is a full text/image journal site of 22 magazines from 1830's to 1900's.
Manybooks.net: http://manybooks.net/
More than 10,000 eBooks Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, or PDA in multiple formats.
National Academy Press: http://www.nap.edu
search the fulltext of their digitized books
On-Line Books: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
15000+ listings, usually .txt
Page-by-Page Books: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
about 400 books to be read online (html).
PdaBooks.org: http://www.pdabooks.org/
EBooks in PalmDOC (mostly) and MS Reader formats.
PocketRocketFX.com: http://www.pocketrocketfx.com/html/ebooks.htm
Classics library in Reader format.
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
Oldest and largest online library usually .txt only.
Read Print: http://www.readprint.com/
Thousands of books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast in HTML.
WebBooks.com: http://www.web-books.com/default.htm
over a 1000 classic texts usually in Reader format.
Wired for Books: http://www.wiredforbooks.org/
Collections of audio books and interviews. Contains full versions of A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, and Beatrix Potter stories along with short stories and excerpts from other books. (Real player)
World eBook Library: http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
Over 27000 free eBooks in HTML format.
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Aesop's Fables: http://www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
38 fables in traditional and modern forms. Most in html some in flash.
Amazing Adventure Series: http://www.amazingadventure.com/
Children's stories which can be read on the screen or have read aloud. Has two books in flash format.
arts-entertainment-recreation.com: http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Children's_Literature/Online_Books/
Links to a variety of online children's books.
BAB Books: http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/ Over 12 online html picture book.
BookPals - performing artists for literacy in schools: http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/
11 stories read by members of the screen actors guild (and others). Stories are read and displayed in a video screen (Windows Media, Real, & Quicktime). Additional another story is available by phone (http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/phone.html).
Book-Pop: http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html
12 html picture books with the option to have the book read aloud.
byGosh.com: http://www.bygosh.com/index.html
Children’s classic books in HTML format.
Candlelight Stories: http://www.candlelightstories.com/HelpOFoodMem.htm
Children's and chapter books in a variety of formats.
Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc (formerly Editec Communications' Children's Books for Free library): www.childrensbooksonline.org
1,200 antique children's books published in the 19th and early 20th century in HTML
childrenselibrary.com: http://www.childrenselibrary.com/
An online bookstore for teachers and schools, this company does offer a 30 day trial program to allow teachers to download and use eBooks for use with their classes (lit).
Children's story book online: http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Over 20 illustrated children's stories in html.
CIA Publication Library: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/index.html Including the World Fact Book with information on every country in the world.
Class Conscious Big Books: http://www.classconsciousbooks.com/bigbooks.html
Seventeen young children's stories HTML based.
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks: http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
Four interactive stories about Clifford the Big Red Dog in flash format, presented by Scholastic.
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL): http://www.icdlbooks.org/
The ICDL is building an international collection that reflects both the diversity and quality of children's literature from 27 cultures in 23 languages (html).
Internet Public Library - KidSpace: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
This section of IPL contains The Reading Zone which is similar to the fiction section at a public library. There are links to on-line stories and information and links about favorite books and authors.
Mighty Book Catalogue: http://www.mightybook.com/catalogue.htm
Over 50 children's books ages 2-preteen in html. Books will read aloud.
NASA Books
Imagers http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/
An online stories Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon in html.
Robin Whirlybird on her Rotorcraft Adventures. http://rotored.arc.nasa.gov
A story and activities of a girl visiting her mother's work: in English, Spanish, and Chinese (HTML)
Our Very Own Star and Auroras! (Flash format) http://stargazer.gsfc.nasa.gov/epo/jsp/products.jsp
Reader’s Theater Editions: http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
A collection of free scripts for readers theater, adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others.
Reading A-Z: http://www.readinga-z.com
An online book seller of leveled book that you print out. Sample books are available (pdf).
RIF Reading Planet: http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx
A collection of read aloud books that changes monthly (Flash format).
Sebastian Swan's Infant Explorer: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/
Eight online big books (html).
Stories from Indonesia: http://www.geocities.com/kesumawijaya/
Seven html text stories.
Tales of Wonder: http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/index.html
Folk and fairy tales from around the world in HTML.
United States of America's Korean War Commemoration: http://korea50.army.mil/teachers/index.shtml
Has two online picture books (html).
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BookRags http://www.bookrags.com/index.html
Book notes and over 1500 novels (HTML) available.
SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/
From Barns & Noble, SparkNotes (like Cliff Notes) offers help in understanding literature for free online.
Owleyes: http://www.owleyes.org/
Offers help with understanding and writing about 12 famous literary works
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SearcheBooks http://www.searchebooks.com/SearcheBooks searches multiple fulltext book sites
eBookLocator: http://www.ebooklocator.com/
Search database of thousands of books.
Online Books Search Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html
Search from over 20,000 listings.
Digital Book Index: http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm
index for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites
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Libros Tauro (Argentina): http://www.librostauro.com.ar/
Spanish: Several thousand eBooks
Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro: http://www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/index.html?principal.html&2
Portuguese: Several hundred eBooks
Athena Texts Francais: http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/
French: 10,000 eBooks (French & Swiss Authors) Literature, philosophy, history, economics, & science, etc.
Gottingen State & University Library, Germany: http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml
German: Approximately 4500 eBooks titles, primarily in German, French, & English, devoted mostly to Exploration & Travel Literature & Mathematics. (The English-Language titles are indexed)
Online Books Page Links to Foreign Language Libraries: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html#foreign
Links to over seventy foreign language libraries with languages ranging from Afghan to Czech, French to Russian, Latin to Yiddish.
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UComics.com: http://www.ucomics.com/comics/ Over 60 daily newspaper comic strips.
Comics.com: http://www.unitedmedia.com/categories/index.html Over 88 newspaper comic strips archived for the last 30 days.
Newspapers on the Internet: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/info/Newspapers.html
Listing of newspapers from around the world that can be read online.
Artbomb.net: http://www.artbomb.net/comics.jsp#
Has five graphic novels
Slate: http://slate.msn.com/
An online magazine that is also published as an eBook.
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Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org “organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.”
Britannica.com http://www.britannica.com users can simultaneously search the world's most respected encyclopedia,
Electric Library http://www.elibrary.com has full-text documents and images concerning: magazines, maps, books and reports, newspapers and newswires, radio, TV and government transcripts, and pictures.
ElectricLibrary's Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com more than 14,000 free articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (3rd ed.).
Encyclopedia Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq A resource for teachers and students with thousands of sources on hundreds of topics.
Information Please http://www.infoplease.com Offers online almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries (links under “Sources”).
The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org a resource for a variety of collections.
Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
The U.S. Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov Web site is the Internet location of the largest library in the world. Comprised of approximately 115 million items in virtually all formats, languages, and subjects.
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ASCD Full-Text Books
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.efa1a11d6de55b8cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/ Four complete books on education and educational issues. Book chapters are also available from ASCD at http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.7ecb0460a2b144dd12c7c91061a001ca/
CAST
http://www.cast.org/products/ Two universal access/technology education books with only the text of the book online, but also enriched with multimedia examples of UDL as well a number of interactive tutorials, tools and templates. Learning to Read in the Computer Age and Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age
National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/browse.html
Has over 2000 professional books (including an education section) which can be read online.
National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/publications.html
Online books on reading, including Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read.
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Literacy and Children with Disabilities
- Ever tried accessible books?
In addition to the Accessible Book Collection mentioned above under "Reading with Older Students," there are a number of notable sources of materials specially designed for individuals with reading or physical disabilities that impede their use of print text. Try: - the National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress, at: www.loc.gov/nls
- Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, at: www.rfbd.org
- bookshare.org, a Web-based system supplying accessible books in digital formats designed for people with disabilities, at: www.bookshare.org
- A ground-breaking center working on literacy and children with disabilities.
www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/
The Center for Literacy and Disabilities Studies (CLDS) promotes literacy learning and use for individuals of all ages with disabilities. Their site describes their ongoing literacy projects and connects you with upcoming events in your area. - Need to know about Braille and literacy?
www.afb.org/
Visit the American Foundation for the Blind, and find an overview of literacy, Braille literacy resources for parents, resources for teachers of Braille, discussion of electronic books, a newsletter on Braille literacy, a Braille email discussion group, and more. - Looking for embossed Braille resources?
www.bookshare.org
Braille books originating from the bookshare.org's digital Braille files can be ordered in embossed Braille form and mailed directly to you or as a gift. - For children with learning disabilities.
The materials available on literacy for children with LD are a splendid resource for all of us. The problem is---where to begin? Here is an obviously short list that will lead you into a universe of more... - LDonline, at : www.ldonline.org/
- National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), at: www.ld.org, and its generous sister-site, at: www.getreadytoread.org
- the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), at: www.ldaamerica.org/
- For deaf and hard of hearing children.
- http://pbskids.org/lions/cornerstones/index.html
Cornerstones: A New Approach to Literacy Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children has a great tool for teachers of children who are deaf and hard of hearing: A Cornerstones teaching unit based on an episode of "Between the Lions," the award-winning PBS literacy series for beginning readers. Included are clear lesson plans as well as supportive material. - For children with Down syndrome.
www.woodbinehouse.com
Woodbine House makes available Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Teachers. For more information about the book, its cost, and how to order, visit the Web site above. - For children with mental retardation.
www.cec.sped.org/bk/catalog2/autism.html
The link above connects you to the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) catalog. Scroll down until you reach the description of The Quest for Literacy: Curriculum and Instructional Procedures for Teaching Reading and Writing to Students with Mental Retardation. Order this 80-page book online, by calling CEC's toll-free number 1.888.232.7733, or by e-mail at service@cec.sped.org.
(Source http://www.nichcy.org/resources/literacy2.asp)