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'Best' Websites for Beginning Readers Links to excellent online reading resources. this site also has links for other skill areas and Web 2.0 applications.

Tumblebooks Over 150 e-books from the New York Public Library. Access them for free through this site.

Timed Reading Activities

International Children's Library is a library that provides free access to children's books from around the world. You can access full copies of stories and children's books online that are from many cultures and in diverse languages. This site could be useful tool for independent reading, tutoring, or classroom reading.

International Reading Association has resources, booklists, lessonplans, and publications all related to literacy and education.

Grimm's Fairy Tales' Bremen Town Musicians is one of the animated stories available here. Most of these animated readings come with fun follow-up games for students.

Library Thing To collect names of books you’ve read, including the ratings you give them, with discussion option

Shelfari.com A place to share your bookshelf with friends, see what they're reading, write your notes, be part of reading groups.

American folklore and folktales from all over the world. Includes useful links to other sites.

More short folktales, stories and poems. Tales from all over the world.

Audiostories in MP3 format

More audiostories, including the tapescript

Articles and Stories A collection of stories for children learning English, and articles on how to use stories in the classroom

The scrapbook project. Highlights work between Brazilian and Argentinian Teenagers.

Bartelby Online books and e-books

Links to newspapers from all over the world

Links to magazines from all over the world

Mixbook. A tool to make online books and how to get them printed afterwards.

Mixbook example