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Newsela is non fiction literacy site that focuses on current events from around the world. It is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject. (web-based )
Epic! is the world's leading online children's subscription book service, with thousands of high-quality books. Epic! for Educators offers a free account to teachers to set up 36 student accounts for classroom use. Amazing! (web-based & iPad app)
Raz-Kids provides comprehensive leveled reading resources for students. Students access leveled text through an interactive portal, where they can listen, read, and record themselves reading. Quizzes check comprehension and allow readers to level up! ​(web-based & iPad app)
Unite for Literacy provides digital access to picture books, narrated in immigrant and indigenous languages. These non-fiction picture books support beginning readers of all ages with rhythmic language, clear images, and easily readable text. ​(web-based, iPad friendly)
As a part of a White House initiative, Open eBooks is the result of a partnership that provides free access to ebooks for teachers in Title I schools, as well as any special ed. teacher. A free library of thousands of current children's books from elementary to high school. Incredible. (iPad app only)
TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which help teach kids the joy of reading. Take an existing picture book, add animation, sound, music and narration, and you have a great electronic picture book to read or have read to you.​ (web-based, some iPad friendly titles)
The Indianapolis Public Library has provided a curated set of 100 free online video read-alouds. Choose from a wide range of books for young students and let them hear fluent expression from a variety of readers. ​(web-based, iPad friendly)
VocabularySpellingCity is an award-winning site that makes developing literacy skills fun through game-based activities. Create your own lists of words and students can study and play with the vocabulary they need to be successful. ​(web-based & iPad app)
A free resource from ReadWrite Think, the Word Mover mobile app allows students to create "found poetry" from word banks, as well as their own lists of words. It's also a great tool for sorting words by spelling patterns. ​(web-based & iPad app)