Free E-book Resouces

This month I thought it would be fun to highlight a few of the excellent online resources for free ebooks that you and your students can use.

One of my favorites is Storyline Online: http://www.storylineonline.net/. Each of their books have accompanying lessons.  If you click on “All Stories” and then on Polar Express, you can see and hear this award winning book read by Lou diamond Phillips.

Five other noteworthy online resources for elementary students are listed below:

·         Lil Fingers: http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.php

·         Speakaboos: http://www.speakaboos.com/corporate/stories

·         Magic Keys: http://www.magickeys.com/books

·         Meegenius: This site not only reads the text but it highlights the words that are being,  read.  There is also an I-pad Meegenius app that is free with over 300 titles.   http://www.meegenius.com/store/books/free/

·         Readquarium’s online library: http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolLibrary/

A couple of outstanding secondary resources are:

·         E-Books Directory with more than 6000 titles. The E-Books Directory provides freely downloadable textbooks, documents, and lecture notes.

·         The Open Library http://openlibrary.org/ is a collection of more than one million free e-book titles.

·         Google Books hosts thousands of books that are in the public domain. To find public domain books go into the advanced search option http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search  and select the "public domain only" and "full text" options to find free full-length books.