WEB RESOURCES FOR LITERACY TEACHERS
©2003, Denni Scates, Region 10 Education Service Center
Books and E-Books
The Intersect Digital Library. Features an extensive "library of 'supported text' books incorporating resources and study strategies that help students learn more from what they read." Contains not only online texts with various support features but lesson plans and help for creating your own supported texts. This is Lynne Anderson-Inman's superb site at the University of Oregon . Be sure to note the Diary of Opal Whiteley.
Project Gutenberg. Online text of thousands of famous works in public domain. “Fine literature digitally re-published.”
Internet Public Library. The IPL offers the full texts of many classics. Children’s literature, mostly in the public domain, is also included. Many interesting features for kids.
The English Server. This site is housed at the University of Washington . Makes available many literary texts online, as well as literary commentary. "Literacy and Education" link is useful.
Reading A-Z. Offers downloadable books for guided reading and phonics. Each book has lesson plans and worksheets and the benchmark books have running record forms.
Hiyah.com. Online classic stories read aloud by well-known performers while text is displayed. Contains a featured story of the week and a few archived titles.
Fable Library. Offers a number of engaging, downloadable fables (new ones, not the classics), mostly at beginning reading levels. Also contains a "Make Your Own Fable" feature, enabling children to create their own fables and submit them to the site.
http://www.fablevision.com/place/library/index.html
Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents. Contains a searchable database of "more than 6,000 in print books that deserve to be read by Spanish-speaking children and adolescents (or those who wish to learn Spanish)." Headings and descriptions are bilingual. Updated weekly. Sponsored by California State University , San Marcos .
http://www.csusm.edu/csb/intro_eng.html
The Velveteen Rabbit. Online version of this classic. (Text only.)
http://www.writepage.com/velvet.htm
IPL Youth Division. A large number of picture books, stories and poetry online, some in Spanish and French. Offers author links too. Operated by the Internet Public Library.
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/youth/youth.out.pl?sub=rzn0000
Aesop's Fables. Collection of online texts, including not only Aesop's fables but some from other sources as well. Some have audio versions available. Life of Aesop and information about the fable genre.
The Real Mother Goose. Complete online texts of the rhymes. Introduction by May Hill Arbuthnot. Beautifully illustrated.