Educational Sites

(some of the sites below are courtesy of The Academy of St. Adalbert in Berea Ohio)

Find all the links in the DOC (CLEVELAND CATHOLIC DIOCESE) curriculum here. To gain access, enter guest name oceoce

 

Keyboarding Practice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ - Dance Mat Typing - younger kids just love this site!

http://www.funtotype.com/ - Typing games.

http://www.onlytypinggames.com/ - Typing games.

http://play.typeracer.com/ - Type against your friends.

http://freetypinggame.net/ - Online typing lessons.

http://freetypinggame.net/play.asp - Various arcade-style typing practice games.

http://www.typingtest.com/games/?m=1 – More typing games.

http://www.typingtest.com/ - A good typing test for speed and accuracy.

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html - Keyboarding games.

Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard - Students can install this FREE program on their home computers to practice.

 

Creative Writing

http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ - National Novel Writing Month - Young Writers Program

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ - Giggle Poetry

http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html - Writing Fun: An interactive writing help site that includes downloads for off-line use.

http://www.lightningbug.com.au/ - Lightning Bug: Your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to THE END.

http://karenromanoyoung.com/index.html - Karen Romano Young's website (author of Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles)

http://storybird.com/ Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

 

Fire Safety

http://sparky.org/#/Sparky - Sparky the Fire Dog

http://scholastic.com/firesafety/ - Scholastic's Fire Safety

Language Arts

http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/

http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ - National Novel Writing Month is November!

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html

http://www.lightningbug.com.au/

http://www.spellingcity.com/

http://www.kidsreads.com/reviews/index.asp

http://www.storyplace.org/ - Digital library.

TUMBLEBOOKS  TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.  Many, many, books are Accelerated Reader Books that are read-along, story books, etc.  This site is unbelievable! (Link courtesy of Royal Oaks Elementary School MN)

***** TumbleBooks (another link to the Tumblebooks website TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you.  The language drop-down menu allows you to view the site in French and Spanish, instead of English.  TumbleReadables  Read-along books are great for early or shy readers. This collection features over 120 read-along books for children, middle schoolers, teens, and adults including classics and even Shakespeare.  The books will highlight sentences as they are being read, turn the page automatically, and offer three different text sizes.  Links courtesy of Portland Public Library!

Math

http://mathplayground.com/index.html - Math games.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/ - Online flashcards and worksheets for a variety of math topics.

http://www.learnyourtables.co.uk/ - Great site for practicing multiplication facts.

http://www.visualmathlearning.com/index.php - A free interactive multimedia on-line tutorial for math. Its first level, Numbers and Arithmetic, is a pre-Algebra course for middle-school students.

http://www.ixl.com/ IXL Math

Science

http://whyfiles.org/ - The science behind topics in the news.

http://www.edheads.org/ - Online games and activities for a variety of topics.  Virtual knee surgery anyone?

http://www.nps.gov/learn/ - Learn about our National Parks.

http://www.periodicvideos.com/ - Videos for all the elements on the periodic table.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html - NASA Kids: Games and infomation about NASA.

The Butterfly and Moth Learning Center - Butterfly and Moth information

Computer Science

http://scratch.mit.edu/ - For more Scratch links, see the Computer Class Journal.

http://www.netsmartzkids.org/indexFL.htm - Internet safety for kids.

http://www.netsmartz.org/netparents.htm - Internet safety for parents/guardians.

http://inpics.net/index.html - Online tutorials for software applications.

http://www.woopid.com/ - Watch free technology training videos!

http://www.commoncraft.com/ - Watch unique "In Plain English" videos on a variety of technology subjects.

Spanish and other Foreign Languages

http://www.onlinefreespanish.com/ - Online games and lessons.

http://www.spanishwordsearchpuzzle.com/ - Online & printable word search puzzles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/start_here/ - Online Spanish lessons.

http://www.bocabeth.com/ - Free materials.

http://translation2.paralink.com/ - Translation site.

Realidades Website -  Website for the 6-8th grade textbook.

Learn Spanish Online Free
URL: http://www.completespanishguide.com
Description: Free basic grammar lessons and vocabulary lists.

Learn Italian Online Free
URL: http://www.onlinelearnitalian.com
Description: Free basic grammar lessons and vocabulary lists.

Learn French Online Free
URL: http://www.languagetutorial.org/learn-french/
Description: Free basic grammar lessons and vocabulary lists.

Link title:  Learn Portuguese Online Free
URL: http://www.languagetutorial.org/portuguese-language/
Description:  Free basic grammar lessons and vocabulary lists.
 

http://www.yesjapanese.com/ online lessons
http://www.yeschinese.org/ online lessons
http://www.yesspanish.net/ online lessons
http://www.yesitalian.net/ online lessons
http://www.yesfrench.com/ online lessons
 

 

Art

http://www.coloringpaintinggames.com/  Coloring Online, painting games

http://www.thecolor.com/ We Love to Color Pick an image and start coloring

 

Social Studies

http://www.earlychildhoodeducation.com/resources/childrens-guide-to-geography/ Children's Guide to Geography (this site has many links on geography)
 

The World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/en/  Awesome site! This site provides free, universal and multilingual access to books, maps, manuscripts, prints, films and sound recordings. The collection has been compiled from more than 100 libraries, museums and archives in over sixty countries.

Gettysburg Flag Works A kids links page to the US Government

www.knowtheromans.co.uk The Romans

 

Multi-Subject

http://playkidsgames.com/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/index.htm

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html

http://pbskids.org/ - PBS Kids: Educational games relating to PBS kids shows.

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm American Library Association Links: Great websites for kid separated by category.

http://www.abcya.com/

http://www.infohio.org/default.html - InfOhio

 

General Interest

http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog/category/kids/ - Cool Cleveland Kids: Kids activities around the Cleveland area.

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ - Cleveland Memory Project: A site dedicated to Cleveland's past with pictures and essays.

 

Technology and Learning

You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Game for Kids and Grown-ups Arthur from PBS Kids helps children with decision-making skills. Read each scenario that is presented, select a possible solution and see if it was the correct decision. The game offers reasons why it is a good decision, or if isn’t, why not. Each correct decision means another step up into the tree house, the ultimate goal of this game. The scenarios are ones that children will encounter often, so it offers a great opportunity for parents and teachers to engage in conversation about possible outcomes. http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/yougottobekidding/index.html

The Geffrye Museum of the Home: Interactive Journey Through time and space travel afforded by the internet, you can take a walk through a Victorian house in London in 1870. In this interactive journey you can help Ruby and Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house, listening to the characters, and answering the questions. By answering all the questions correctly, you will find Sam. Along the way you will have fun exploring someone else’s home and life. http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/learning/walk-through-a-victorian-house/walk-through/

 

New Teacher Tools (Reading Etc.)

http://www.pcboe.net/les/elderweb/index.htm  - Reading Matters

http://www.pcboe.net/les/elderweb/harcourtresources.htm - Reading Matters

Florida Center for Reading Research Activities K-1, 2-3, 4-5.

http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/studentCenterActivities.shtm

http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/studentCenterActivities23.shtm

http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/studentCenterActivities45.shtm

http://www.funeducationalapps.com/

 

Free Children's Books Online

124 Sites For Free Children's Books Online

The Oz Series  Most people think there is only the one book (Wizard of Oz), but there are 40 "official" books in the Oz series and several more "unofficial" Oz books.  The official series started in 1900 and continued until 1963.  I have located copies of the first 38 of the 40 official Oz books and have provided links to them. 

We Give Books   offers many free children's books to read online.

2020ok around 100 books for babies through 12 nicely divided into categories.

AllBooksFree has a very nice collection of ebooks for online viewing and listening.  Some are also available for download in PDF.  These are unique entries that are not available elsewhere.

4tenderheart  offers unique stories for online reading and also two television readings of Sir Pot stories.

AaronShephard'sWorldof Stories is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading.  The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin.

AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro  has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.

AmazingAdventureSeries offers the children story "June the Prune" for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

AmericanFolklore offers many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing.

AntBee Joe Ant and Boo Bee offer nine illustrated books for younger children for online viewing.

Archive.org (Children's Library) large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download

ArmenianStoryTeller has a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online.

BABBooks has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.

Baby School   has a small collection of online flash books for toddlers and young children.

BaldwinLibraryofChildren'sLiterature has almost 6,000 classic , but unique, children's books for free viewing online.  the ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations.  A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time.  Not related to the above as far as I can tell.

Baldwin Online Children's Projects 520 classic  children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.

BBCSchools  has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio.

Bedtime-Story has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing.  Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories.

Beenleigh State School  of Queensland, Australia has a large collection of stories to read online with audio built in.

BetweentheLions has a good number of video books with words for younger readers to follow along.  Also some games and other activities for young readers.

B For Ball offers books for online viewing geared to preschoolers.  These books cover basics such as alphabet, colors, shapes etc.  Thanks to Gretish for this suggestion.

Bibliotastic has an interesting and unique collection of 15 free ebooks in their children's category.  These may be viewed online without registration.  Free registration is required to download in PDF, KINDLE or EPUB.

BookBox has about 20 free books available for download in pdf (as a single page) and MP3.  Also free games and coloring books.

BookPop has a number of illustrated books free for online reading.  There are also some coloring pages for download.  There are supposed to be music and story downloads, but I kept getting an error when  trying to reach those.

BooksShouldBeFree has a good size collection of Childrens and Fairy Tales books available for download in plain text format.

Bored.com (Children's) has 1572 works available for online viewing in their children's section.  Searchable by author name and title.

BritishCouncil has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories.  Games and other activities also available.  Audio may be disabled for reading only.

BuddhaNet  offers about 15 Buddhist books for children as well as textbooks and coloring books for download in pdf.

CandlelightStories has a good number of stories from the Arabian nights collection as well as other story books available for online reading.

CBeebies is a BBC site that offers a good number of free stories, in flash, for online reading and listening.  Also, has games, music and coloring books.

ChildrensBooksForever has a nice collection of books in pdf. 

Children's Books Online is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books for viewing online.   They are also available for download at a fee.  This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster.

Children'sLibrary.org  has a large collection of books for online viewing.  Many appear to be unique classic works that are finely illustrated.  Books can be filtered by age, length and fiction/non-fiction.

ChildrenStory  offers a nice collection of fairy tales for online viewing as well as Bible stories and coloring books.

ChildrensStories offers 6 free works by Elisa Gianoncelli.  2 are for children 7 and older, 1 for children 6 to 9 and 3 for children under 6.

Childrenstory offers a smaller collection of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and holiday stories.  There is also a story that was written and illustrated by 2d grader children.  Caution that many of the other links lead to items for sale.

ChildStoryTeller has a good number of short stories and nursery rhymes for reading online.  No illustrations to speak of and most of the stories are classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entires here.

Classic Literature Library (Fairy Tales) Small collection, but a nice collection of the Oz and Peter Pan books along with Lewis Carroll's children's books available for online viewing.

Classicly has a nice collection of free books for children and young readers.  Most are available for download in pdf, kindle or MP3 (audiobook).  The Young Reader Collection only lists four books, but if you click on links in the introductory paragraph, you will be taken to other works.  Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.

ClassicReader (Young Readers) Several hundred classic books for young readers available for online viewing.

CyberKids offers free books, written by children, for online viewing.  Unique collection divided into several genre categories.  Also offers some interactive stories, music and activites.

DLTK-Teach   offers free printable children's books.  Most are geared towards pre-schoolers, including a set on the alphabet, but there are some stories for older children also.   

EasyMediaBroadcast   has a nice little collection of classic children's books with many of Beatrix Potter's works.  The works are available for download in TK3 and as .exe.  Downloads were a bit slow, but the quality of the works was very good.

e-booksDirectory has some classic children's books available for online viewing and some for download.  Some are the usual classics, but also some unusual entries here.

eduplace  offers 14 "leveled" books for online reading or printing.

ePubBooks has an interesting collection of classic fairy tale books, with some unique entries.  These are available for free download in EPUB.

ePubBud has several hundred free books available in EPUB.  These are divided into categories, mostly by age.   These appear to be a mix of classic and original and unpublished works.  You can also create your own book to post there.  Thanks to lala for this suggestion.

ETextCenter the electronic text center of the University of Virginia has a large collection of works for children and young adults available for online viewing.  These are classic works and many are availble elsewhere, but there are some unique ones.  Books are sorted by author name.

FableLibrary has an interesting and unique collection of childrens works.  Most are available for viewing online, including some flash versions.  But a few are available for download. 

FarmhouseFables offers 5 short story books about the little creatures that have made their home in the meadow next to the old farmhouse.

Feedbooks (Fairy Tales) has a small but unique collection of fairy tale books from around the globe available for download in Kindle, ePub and PDF.

Fiction eBooks (Children's Illustrated) 8 of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books very nicely illustrated.

FictionPress has 2695 free works in its Kids Fiction Archive.  These appear to be original and unpublished works and most are short stories.  These are available for free reading online.

FloridaDisaster.org  offers three books on hazardous weather for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade readers in download in PDF.

GailSpencerLamm  offers her illustrated ebook, Emily's Patience, for free online viewing or download.

Geronimo's Adventures features 9 good size books on the adventures of Geronimo the teddy bear for online viewing.

Giraffian offers a nice collection of books for pre-schoolers, covering the alphabet, numbers colors and other topics. 

GoldenGems   a collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for online viewing and saving as jpg.

GoodnightStories is a nice little collection of unique children stories for reading online.  A good number of the stories were written by children.  Some other activities and printable coloring pages are also available.

Google Book Search (Fairy Tales) 578 works for online viewing, from the 1850s-1920s.

Grammaropolis has a book, video, songs and games to help children learn proper grammar. 

Gutenberg (Children's) Large collection divided into sub-categories available for download in several formats.

Hiyah offers some reading skills software for children 18 months to 6 years of age, which may also be used online without download.  Thanks to bowhunter1951 for this suggestion.

InklessTales  offers 15 stories for online viewing as well as games, poems and activities.

International Children's Digital Library nice collection of children's books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing.

Joggoon has 30 classic children novels available for free reading online.   There are some unique listings here.

Johnnie's Story Page most of these are links offsite, but it is a very nice collection and  well sorted for beginning and more advanced readers.  All the ones I looked at were flash presentations and also had audio available.

Kellscraft (Children's Books) nice collection (100) of childrens books from the 1890s-1920s.

KidsKnowIt  is not a book site, but it does have a lot of reading for children, along with educational puzzles and games.

KidsNurseryRhymes a British site featuring over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing.  Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi player-available there) and some nursery rhyme disco recordings available for download in MP3.

Kidspace A small collection of childrens books, available for online viewing, from the Internet Public Library.

KidsPages offers free illustrated ebooks for reading online as well as other learning activities for younger children.  These stories are generally classic children stories.

KidStoriesOnline offers free stories online (with optional audio), free ebooks, audio books and videos.  Some require providing an email, but most are available to all.

Kindersite offer a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies, music and games for younger children.

Knowledgerush has a small, but interesting, collection with a good listing of Oz and Tom Swift books, along with some other classics for viewing online.  Also a young adults section.

LearningIsland Nice collection of children's books available for online viewing.

LearningPage  has a series (38) of printable "Tommy" story books suitable for about 8-10-year-olds, plus some other printable books, for free.  Requires free registration. 

LibraryofCongress  maintains a nice collection of classic children's books in its Childrens Literature collection of its Rare Book section.  these are available for online reading and download in pdf.  These are illustrated copies and are a nice mix of well known and unusual.

LilFingers Storybooks Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to.

LongLongTimeAgo is a large collection of fables, myths, folk tales, fairy tales and more from around the world.  These are available for reading online. 

Magickeys small, but interesting and unusual, collection for online viewing

ManyBooks (Young Readers)  2390 books available for online viewing or download in an extremely large variety of formats

Megamouse Books this site offers stories by Emma Laybourn

MemoWare (Children's eBooks) 686 books available for download in varying formats

MerpyStories offers several animated flash stories, with accompanying music, for online viewing.  The unique stories of Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly and Rufus the Firefly available in English and Spanish.  Other activities available.

Michael Hardgrove  offers his illustrated book, "The Echo and the Pixie" for free reading online.

Mightybook is a pay site, but it offers a good size collection of very interesting and free flash animation storybooks, story songs, Beatrix Potter stories and more.  I thought the music and art section, which combines classical music and art,  was a very good idea.

Munsey's (Children Books) 2283 free books available in HTML or a good variety of downloads.

Munsey'sMobile has over 2000 free books in its Children's category.  These are all available for free viewing online and are also available for download in PDF, PRC and ePUB.  These appear to be different works than those available on the regular Munsey's site, above.

MuseumofUnnaturalHistory has a small collection of illustrated childrens' stories for online viewing. these are unique stories not found elsewhere.

MysteryNetKids has a good size collection of mysteries for children to solve.  There are 28 "Solve-It" stories, 29 "Chiller" stories from the Darkmaster,  28 "Quick Solve" stories, 28 Magic Tricks and 21 mystery stories written by children that won the mystery writing contest at the site.

PBSKids has a few read along stories as well as several short educational videos for young children.

PlanetOzKids has an interesting collection of stories relating to myths about animals.  Also available are detective stories to work along with.  All available for online viewing.

ProfessorGarfield offers 11 free books for beginner readers.  These are nicely illustrated and are read in their "toon reader".  There is an option to have the book read aloud using human voices as the child reads.  Interesting and unique collection.  Available in several languages.  Other activities also available at the site.

PuzzlEd  is not a book site, but has links to sites offering free books (which will be incorporated here when I have time) and a collection of jigsaw and other puzzles and other activities for children.

RIF Reading Planet  has an interesting collection of books for online viewing that changes monthly.  Also has activities and games as well as Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, Hispanic and native American sections with books and activities.

Robert Munsch has about 60 books by Robert Munsch for reading online and read by him available for download in MP3 format.

RodCockle offers a nice collection of illustrated books for online viewing, as well as games and puzzles for 4-8 year olds.

Room108KidsStories offers about 25 animated stories, with accompanying music, for reading online.  These are unique stories not found elsewhere. 

Scholastic Small collection of children's books available for online viewing (or read to you).  Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, Alice in Wonderland and a couple of others.

Scholastic Mini-books has a good selection of stories available to read or print, many of which are free.

SebastianSwan  a collection of Sebastian Swan stories for online viewing.

Shay's Imagination  offers the unique stories and poems of Shay for online reading or download in pdf.

SillyBooks has a number of free books available for online reading.  There are also puzzles, games and contests.

Smashwords has over 300 free ebooks for free online viewing or download in a variety of formats.  These are generally unpublished works and unique to this site.  The site does also offer books for purchase, but all the works in this list are available for free.

Starfall  has online flash presentations designed for first graders to entertain and educate.

StoriesForChildren has 8 Christmas stories by Carolyn Rogers for online viewing and apparently some woodland creature stories soon to come.

StoriesForMyLittleSister is a collection of original stories written by a big sister for her little sister.  Interesting collection of illustrated stories and also other activites.

StoriestoGrowBy  has a large collection of folk and fairy tales for children from around the world for online viewing.

StoryPlace Elementary has six stories and related activities for online viewing geared for elementary school age children.

StoryPlace PreSchool  has a nice collection of books and activities designed for pre-schoolers available for online viewing.

StoryTimeForMe a nice site with unique entries aimed for toddlers through 2d grade.  Interesting combination of old fashioned animated book and flash video.

SurLaLuneFairyTales offers a very nice and large collection of fairy tales from around the world for online reading.

Talwwins has a interesting mix of classics and original books for children available for free viewing online or for free download in PDF.

TheManorSchool offers a collection of Greek myths and legends for online viewing.  Featured within the stories is the artwork of children of the school.

TheMoonlitRoad has 11 stories for children for online reading.  A mix of ghost stories, folktales, myths and legends from the American South.

ThePomplemousse has three original stories about the adventures of Pomplemousse, intended for children and adults.

Tikiri  has a nice collection of Sri Lankan stories available in English and Sinhalese available as PDF.

ToddlerSchool has a small collection of illustrated books to read and listen to online. Also has educational games for younger children.  Suggested by Sefi

Tonight'sBedtimeStory offers 79 classic fairy tales for download or online viewing in PDF.

uMassAmherstAesop'sFables offers a collection of Aesop's fables, with illustrations from students in the Computing in the Fine Arts course for online viewing.

WackyWebTales offers a good size collection of short tales for 3rd graders and above. Geared to help with parts of speech.

Web-Books has 92 free classic children's novels.  These are all available to read free online or for download in WEB and WEB database.  Viewing the downloads requires their Web Viewer (free) which is clean as far as I can tell

WebPop  has a very interesting collection of unique and nicely illustrated books available for online reading, listening and download. 

WiredForBooks has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well as a few others for online reading and also available in audio.

WorldofTales  a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available for online viewing.

YourBedtimeStory There are not a lot of stories and the stories are not very long, but this site does have a nice twist that you can personalize the story.  There are also coloring pages along with the stories.

 

****Read-Along Adventures  Remember those great read-along books from when you were a kid? In the days before computers, DVD and VHS, this was the next best thing for reliving a movie or a TV show. From Goonies to A-Team, Star Wars to Mary Poppins, they made them all!
This site contains an ongoing collection of these out of print books, compiled into convenient Flash files.

*****TUMBLEBOOKS  TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.  Many, many, books are Accelerated Reader Books that are read-along, story books, etc.  This site is unbelievable! (Link courtesy of Royal Oaks Elementary School MN)*****Here is another link to Tumblebooks (Cuyahoga County Public Library Ohio)

***** TumbleBooks (another link to the Tumblebooks website TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you.  The language drop-down menu allows you to view the site in French and Spanish, instead of English.  TumbleReadables  Read-along books are great for early or shy readers. This collection features over 120 read-along books for children, middle schoolers, teens, and adults including classics and even Shakespeare.  The books will highlight sentences as they are being read, turn the page automatically, and offer three different text sizes. Links courtesy of Portland Public Library!

***** Pebble Go PebbleGo, the latest innovation from Capstone Press, includes hundreds of animals, audio and video clips, carefully leveled text and educational games. Link courtesy of West Jefferson Elementary School!

 

Children's Audio Books

AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.

AmazingAdventureSeries offers the children story "June the Prune" for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

AudioBooksForFree (Childrens) has a few hundred audio books available for free download as MP3s.  However, the quality of the free downloads is 8kbps, which is bearable.  Higher quality recordings cost money.  No sorting for age groups.  The books appear to be mostly for older children.

Beenleigh State School  of Queensland, Australia has a large collection of stories to read online with audio built in.

BookBox  has 18 audio books available in a variety of languages available for download in MP3.

BooksShouldBeFree has a good collection of Childrens and Fairy Tales audio books available for download in MP3 (64kbps) format.  Files are downloaded in Zip format and when extracted are separated into chapters.

BritishCouncil has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories.  Games and other activities also available.

CinnamonBear is a British site featuring the adventures of Paddy O'Cinnamon available for download in MP3 format.  The quality is very good, but the stories are divided into separate downloads of small sections.  A nice unusual listing though.

HighlightsKids has 9 books available for listening and viewing online through a flash player.  The site also has games, puzzles, reading stories and science experiments and stories for children.

Johnnie's Story Page most of these are links offsite, but it is a very nice collection and  well sorted for beginning and more advanced readers.  All the ones I looked at were flash presentations and also had audio available.

KidsNurseryRhymes has singalong nursery rhymes for online listening and disco sing alongs for download in MP3 format.

KiddieRecordsWeekly has a very interesting collection of stories.  These were recorded on records during the mid 1940s to the early 1950s.  Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers of the day.  There are around 250 recordings available for download in high quality MP3 format or they can be streamed.  Some are available as one download, but most are available in several segments. (See KidsAudioBooks {below} for easier download).

KidsAudioBooks Very good site which lists many of the same records listed at KiddieRecordsWeekly, but has them all available in one download.  Also has some old time radio shows as well as a small collection of coloring pages (images to be saved) and reading books (pdf download).

KidsEnglishBooks offers 6 free downloadable picture books with matching audio as well as 3 fairy tales in pdf and audio for free download.

KidsLearnOutLoud has about 160 free audio books and podcasts available for listening or download in various formats (usually MP3).  These are links to other sites so the format and quality can vary, but the few I listened to were of very good quality.  Some interesting entries here.

Kindersite offer a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies, music and games for younger children.

Librivox (Childrens) has a good collection of childrens audio books available for download in MP3 (64kbps or 128kbps) or ogg.  Quality of recordings is very good, but the downloads are chapter by chapter.

LightUpYourBrain has 20 childrens audio books available for download in MP3 or for listening online.  All are read by Chuck Brown.  There is also a large collection of childrens games available at the site.

Lit2Go has a large collection of audio books and poems, which appear to be almost all for children of varying ages (Titles).    Quality of recordings was very good.

Mightybook is a pay site, but it offers a good size collection of very interesting and free flash animation storybooks, story songs, Beatrix Potter stories and more.  I thought the music and art section, which combines classical music and art,  was a very good idea.  All of the stories and songs are audio and print for read-a-long.

OnlineAudioStories has close to 100 audio stories for free listening.  Most are short poems, but there are a few longer stories mixed in. 

Robert Munsch has about 60 books by Robert Munsch (and read by him) available for download in MP3 format. 

SillyBooks has nine animated read along books for viewing online.  These are flash animations and are for those learning to read.

Speakaboos has about 100 books available for listening and viewing online through a flash viewer.  Downloads are available for a fee, though some are available free after registering.  They also have a Play area with arts and crafts projects.

StoriesNow has 4 famous children stories that were originally performed live at the lux theater for radio broadcast.  the commercials and other extraneous material have been eliminated so that the story flows through.  These are based on the movie versions of the stories and have some of the stars from the movie starring in the radio braodcast.

StoryLineOnline has audio books available for online listening and viewing through a flash player.  There are also activities associated with the book available online or for download in pdf.  This site is a program of the Screen Actors Guild and features well known actors as the readers.

Storynory has a good size collection of interesting children stories.  There are original stories as well as classic novels and fairy tales.  The educational page has Greek myths and Robin Hood stories and some others.  The Junior stories page has books for those just learning to read.  Downloads are very good quality MP3. 

TheStoryHome  has several free audio stories for listening to online.  These are mostly classics, with some original works.

WiredForBooks has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well as a few others for online reading and also available in audio. 

WorldofTales  a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available as audio.

 

 ***Read-Along Adventures  Remember those great read-along books from when you were a kid? In the days before computers, DVD and VHS, this was the next best thing for reliving a movie or a TV show. From Goonies to A-Team, Star Wars to Mary Poppins, they made them all!
This site contains an ongoing collection of these out of print books, compiled into convenient Flash files.

*****TUMBLEBOOKS  TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.  Many, many, books are Accelerated Reader Books that are read-along, story books, etc.  This site is unbelievable! (Link courtesy of Royal Oaks Elementary School MN)*****Here is another link to Tumblebooks (Cuyahoga County Public Library Ohio)

***** TumbleBooks (another link to the Tumblebooks website TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you.  The language drop-down menu allows you to view the site in French and Spanish, instead of English.  TumbleReadables  Read-along books are great for early or shy readers. This collection features over 120 read-along books for children, middle schoolers, teens, and adults including classics and even Shakespeare.  The books will highlight sentences as they are being read, turn the page automatically, and offer three different text sizes.  Links courtesy of Portland Public Library!

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Kindergarten and First Grade Links (Literacy Etc.)

Many of the links courtesy of Royal Oaks Elementary Woodbury MN. South Washington County Schools

 

Literacy Letter ID     A to Z Highway Game     Alphabet Zoo     Clifford's Letter Round Up     Kangaroo Confusion     Letter Match       Letter Sounds     Beginning       ABC Match       Alphabet Goop       Clifford's Letter Match       Clifford's Sound Match       Digby Mole's First Sounds Game       Fuzzy Lion Ears       Leo Loves to Spell!       Letters to Big Bird       The Painting Game (Needs sound)       Train Car Sort             Ending       Digby Mole's End Sounds Game       Ending Digraphs       Garden Leaves       The Slide Game             Vowels       Chicken Stacker       Clifford's Make a Word       Short Vowel Matching       Short Vowel Word Families       Short Vowels       Word Family Sort       High Frequency     Colors     Construct a Word     Days of the Week     High Frequency Word Drag     Months of the Year     Star Words       Rhyming     Digby Mole's Rhyming Game     Freeze Dance Rhyming     Loosey Goosey Rhymes Game     Reggie Loves to Rhyme!     Rhyme N Roll     Rhyming Game     Rhyming Words     Rhyming Words     Sassy Seals (Needs sound)     Washing Line Rhyme (Needs sound)

Books & Stories
		Arthur
		Audrey Wood
		Bembo's Zoo
		Berenstain Bears
		Clifford
		Eric Carle
		Jan Brett
		Kevin Henkes
		Little Critter
		Seussville
		StoryPlace
		Sylvan Dell eBooks
Science
		Grouping Animals and Plants
		Habitat Manager
		Insect?
		Living and Non-Living Sorter
		Senses
Other Sites
		All Aboard!
		Barnaby Bear
		Brain Busters
		Britannica Learning Zone
		Build a Neighborhood
		Fairy Tale Land
		Kerpoof
		McGruff Safety Games
		Nina Loves to Name Things!
		Out of Place
		Red Fish
		Starfall
		Stories and Rhymes
		Your Neighborhood
		Virtual Farm