Digital Content
Original, non-fiction picture books support beginning readers of all ages. Features include predictable, rhythmic language; images with clear, familiar subjects; and text that ranges from one word up to a few sentences per page.
Bbooks provide unique audio support to families who speak (or are learning to speak) English, indigenous or foreign languages. Simple audio buttons on each page allow you to hear narrations by native speakers in warm, expressive voices. |
Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners. |
Teach phonics through online games and stories starring Clifford. Early readers practice important phonemic awareness and phonics skills while listening to words and selecting which words to include in their stories. These activities engage students in building storybooks, helping students connect sounds to letters and enhance their reading vocabulary.
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Online Bookshelves (Downloadable Ebooks)
Google BooksFind the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
Google's free books are made available to read through careful consideration of and respect for copyright law globally: they are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free, e.g. US government documents. LOC REading Room |
Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
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The unique materials of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, now totaling over 800,000 items, include books, broadsides, pamphlets, theater playbills, prints, posters, photographs, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. At the center is Thomas Jefferson's book collection, which was sold to Congress in 1815.
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ManyBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet. Many of the early eBooks are from the Project Gutenberg archives, which means you will be able to find a lot of classics on the site.
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Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
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Loyalbooks offers over 7,000 public domain titles in e-book and e-audiobook formats. They make searching easy by providing easy-to-use links to genres and collections of interest. A primarily visual browsing experience makes searching easy.
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EJUNTOThe name ejunto is is a modern version of Benjamin Franklin's Junto society. Formed in 1727 in Philadelphia, Junto was an early American society that met weekly to discuss their readings and research for mutual improvement. Junto.org is an electronic model of Franklin's original Junto Society. Founded in the spring of 2005 by former National Park Service Ranger Andrew Julow, Junto's brings high quality historical and philosophical audiobooks to the public domain.
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Learn Out LoudBrowse over 50,000 educational audiobooks, podcasts, and videos. One of the most popular sections of the site is our Free Audio & Video Directory which features over 10,000 free audio books, courses, documentaries, lectures, interviews, speeches, and more. They also have a Podcast Directory with over 7,000 carefully selected audio & video podcasts you can learn from. The Kids Audio Books Section features over 2,000 audio books, podcasts, and free videos for kids & teens to learn from.
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Librivox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net for free. All our audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish. Please note: Our readers are free to choose the books they wish to record. LibriVox sees itself as a library of audiobooks. Because the books we read are in the public domain, our readers and listeners should be aware that many of them are very old, and may contain language or express notions that are antiquated at best, offending at worst.
Images in the PUblic Domain
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Provides hundreds of thousands of free clip art & vector images that you can download or embed anywhere at no cost.
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This page on Wikipedia offers a listing of freely available images to use in the public domain.
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Music In the Public Domain
MusopenProvides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
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Mutopia Project2124 pieces of music – free to download, modify, print, copy, distribute, perform, and record – all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses, in PDF, MIDI, and editable LilyPond file formats.
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Smithsonian MusicThe world’s largest museum of music. Music is an integral part of the Smithsonian’s connective tissue, spanning a remarkable number and diversity of collections, programs, and exhibitions.
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