Online Stories
1. The Screen Actors Guild supports this online streaming video program that features SAG members reading children’s books aloud. Each book includes accompanying lessons and activities. You have the option of having the text of the story off or on.
2. This Web site has stories for younger students to read. Students can click on a word and a voice will read the specific word.
http://www.magickeys.com/books
3. These stories are from Between the Lions from PBS Kids. It is a wonderful site where a story is read. Words are highlighted in chunks as the story is read.
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/
4. This is a nice site with stories for children to read independently. Reading level: Grades 1-2.
http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/
5. This is a good site with controlled phonic texts for beginning readers.
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?fcountrues/nationalities
6. There are stories and games on this Dr. Seuss site.
7. This is a wonderful BBC site that has stories for children to read. It also allows you to print out the words of the story.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/
8. This interactive site allows children to name and select characters for the story. The story is to be read both by the student and a voice on the site.
http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp
9. There are seven stories for students to read. Reading level: Grade 2+
http://www.readroom.com/RRoom/BooksRead/BookRead.htm
10. This is a collection of retold Aesop’s fables, Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms stories, nursery rhymes, and others.
11. This site has online stories with audio for children to listen to or read on their own. Grades 2+
http://repeatafterus.com/genre.php?g=childrensstories&s=a&PHPSESSID=4cf2457e31b4e5ba39ee4d4710e2dfb4
12. This site has child-friendly stories for children to read independently. Some have illustrations, others do not.
http://www.ipl.org/div/storyhour/index.html
13. Click on Rhymes and Poetry and also Reading and Writing. Under Reading and Writing, scroll down and click on Stories. Reading Level: end of Grade 1-Grade 2+.
http://www.mothergoosecaboose.com/indexfr.html
14. This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore, and ghost stories from each and every state. Students can read about famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Daniel Boone, and many more. There are also nursery rhymes, folk songs, and animal tales.
http://www.americanfolklore.net/
15. International Children’s Library
I came across this site and thought others might enjoy knowing about it. The goal of the ICDL Foundation is to create a collection of more than 10,000 children’s books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet. You can search for books by country, award-winning, recently added, etc. Because the pages of the books are photographed, the print can appear small. However, you can click on the print or the + sign, and the print becomes larger.
“The materials included in the collection reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, and priorities of peoples around the world. The collection’s focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. It is hoped that through a greater understanding of one another that tolerance and acceptance can be achieved.”
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
