E-Texts


 * [[image:stairs4.jpg width="246" height="130" caption="Two men building stairs"]] || =Online Books, eText , Supported eText  , Create your own Books: Support UDL and Level 1 RTI =

== Just as stairs support us to move to the next level, special reading tools can support students to higher levels of success or teach students strategic reading skills. Pair these books with screen readers (Reading) == || [|Bookshare] Free to all qualifying students with disabilities www.bookshare.org For more information: [|NIMAS] nimas.cast.org/ (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard)

Books Online MP3 or Audio books Books in Digital Format and Create your Own Books Early Literacy Support Creating Reading Probes 

Strategic Reading & Writing
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|NCSeT] [|:] National Center for Supported eText ncset.uoregon.edu/ research on the use of supported <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">eText to increase comprehension <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Intersect Digital Library] <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">a Library of supported <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">eText, developed by NCSet. intersect.uoregon.edu/ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|UDL Editions] by CAST <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">reading supported by <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">prompts and text-to-speech udleditions.cast.org/ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|CAST Strategy Tutor] cst.cast.org/cst/auth-login Teach research and strategy <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Science Writer] sciencewriter.cast.org/ Reading and writing a science report <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|Bookbuilder] by CAST create your own strategic books bookbuilder.cast.org <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|ReadWorks] www.readworks.org free registration provides access to reading passages aligned with common core by grade, lexile and skill <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|60 Second Recap] www.60secondrecap.com/ 60 second recap of different novels, select novels to choose, get 60 second recap of plot, characters <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Newsela] newsela.com/about/ News articles that content be adjusted based on Lexile score, includes comprehension questions

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Joe's Non Netbook]/www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhpmEZWuRQ <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">eText or not a humorous view = =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Books Online or books to download

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Bibliomania] – www.bibliomania.com/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Project Gutenberg]– www.gutenberg.org/ now has <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Kindle and <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">eReader  format
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_noSuggestion GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|ReadPrint] www.readprint.com
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|International Children’s Digital Library] – www.icdlbooks.org
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Literature Online] www.online-literature.com/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|UVA]<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|eText] [| Library] etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Online Books Page]onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Has a read online feature, pdf, <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">epub, Kindle and Daisy format
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Arthur's Classic Novels] www.arthursclassicnovels.com
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Digital Book Index] www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm catalog of books, texts, and document, organized and indexed
 * [|Internet Public Library] www.ipl.org variety
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Classic]<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|BookShelf] www.classicbookshelf.com/ provides options for differentiated viewing
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Free eBooks] www.free-ebooks.net/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|Nook Study] www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/index.asp Free eBook Reader for textbooks
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Accessible Book Collection] www.accessiblebookcollection.org/ providing digital text
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project] www.mainlesson.com classic literature
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Children's Storybooks Online] www.magickeys.com/books/ Online books with illustrations
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Shmoop] www.shmoop.com/ study guides and teacher resources for literature, poetry and lots of books.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Signed Stories] www.signedstories.com/Books to see in Sign language and subtitles
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|Snee] [| Books] www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/ Free <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">epub  children's books created from Project Gutenberg
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Chest of Books] chestofbooks.com/ online books, include fairy tales
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Digital Poetry] www.gigglepoetry.com read and write poems, students can act out poems
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Tech Support - Qizmos Freeware] www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-children list of links
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|250 Places for Free Books Online] www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm (a list of links
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Aesop's Fables] www.aesopfables.com/ online source for all of Aesop's Fables
 * [|Getty Publications Virtual Library] www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html Free Digital Titles from the Getty Museum
 * [|Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications] www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online Art History publications

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Readability] www.readability.com/ download application, create <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">bookmarklet to make online reading less cluttered, does not provide <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">audio but makes it <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">easier to use audio support on a page, use with any online <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">eText.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> MP3 <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Books online or Free (or cheap) Audio Books

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Lit2Go] etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|CCProse] www.ccprose.com/ Classic literature made accessible by combining high quality audio, large print text, synchronized closed captions, and machine translations in multiple languages; we provide something for everyone.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|FictionWise] www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm FictionWise sells ebooks but also has a collection of free books available in many formats, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">secure eReader program available as a free download.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Daily Lit] /www.dailylit.com/ RSS feeds of free public domain books
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|Bookbox] www.bookbox.com low cost <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">books but free previews and some whole books for free, pdf downloads.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|LibriVox]www.librivox.org FREE audio books from the public domain
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Open Culture]www.openculture.com/ FREE cultural and educational media - link to free audio books.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|PikPocketBooks] www.picpocketbooks.com/ books to view on a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">smartphone prices start at $<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">. 99
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Books Should be Free] www.booksshouldbefree.com/ download mp3 or iPod versions of audio books
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Download free audio books] www,Audiobooksforfree.com
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Books Aloud] www.booksaloud.org have qualify by having a print disability in order to download books. Complete client application
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Free Classic Audio Books] freeclassicaudiobooks.com search for different books

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Create your own Books, Books in Different Formats, Animated Books & Books with Audio Feedback

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Browser Books] staff<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">.prairiesouth.ca /~<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">cassidy.kathy /<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">browserbooks /index.htm Books with speech for young children to read on the web listed by category.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|ToonBooks] by Professor Garfield www.professorgarfield.com/toon_book_reader/index.html
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Tar Heel Reader] tarheelreader.org/ Switch accessible books with speech
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Reading Genie] www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/ Information on reading books and examples of some developed with <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Powerpoint
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Storynory] www.storynory.com Audible books for children, listen online or download audio
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|Storyplace] www.storyplace.org/ Children's Digital Library from Charlotte/Mecklanburg County English and Spanish
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Storyline Online] www.storylineonline.net/ Online streaming video books read by Screen Actors Guild
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|BookPals] bookpals.net/ Books recorded by screen actors guide and others
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Story Time for Me] www.storytimeforme.com Animated books, individual words highlighted
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Children's Storybook Online] www.magickeys.com/books/ books online, audio books marked
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Toddler School] toddlerschool.net books with pictures and audio text
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|Bookpop] www.bookpop.com web-enhanced reading adventures
 * [|Read to Me] www.readtomelv.com online streaming of books
 * [|PBS Kids Between the Lions] pbskids.org/lions Get Wild about Reading
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Accessible Books] Free books for You www.setbc.org/setbc/accessiblebooks/freebooksforyou.html
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Tumble Books] www.tumblebooks.com Online collection of library books at three levels (free trial membership)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Talking Books] www.everhart.leon.k12.fl.us/assist_tech_resources.htm Using PowerPoint to create a talking book (PDF file) and an example.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Early Reading Support

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Literacy Center Education Network] www.literacycenter.net
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Raz-kids] www.raz-kids.com
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">[|StarFall] www.starfall.com
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|TALK:] Classroom Literacy Guide teach.fcps.net/talk/ Technology assisting literacy knowledge nice resource for activities for specific software.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Reading Rockets] www.readingrockets.org/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Game Goo] www.earobics.com/gamegoo/ Games to practice phonemic awareness and alphabetic principles.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Roy the Zebra] www.roythezebra.com/ Reading website for emerging readers.
 * [|Books and activities for Emergent Readers] www.marcias-lesson-links.com/VeryEmergentReaders.html

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Reading support: Creating reading fluency probes from digital curriculum materials

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Reading Fluency Passage Generator] www.interventioncentral.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|CBM Maze Generator] www.interventioncentral.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|OKAPI] - www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php (older version of reading fluency generator)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Demonstration of using Okapi with <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark">Readprint.