OXFORD OWL: Free ebooks from Oxford, suitable for ages 3-11, all levelled. You need to register, log in and work your way through the website, but can easily find the free books.
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DIGITAL LIBRARY: Multicultural digital library created by the International Children’s Library. Students can read books online in 19 different languages from dozens of different countries. Children and teachers can search for books by age level, topic, color of cover, length, award winners, and recently added. Books are visually appealing to early elementary students and children can begin reading any story immediately. All text and pictures can be enlarged.
TOON BOOKREADER: Books to read, not levelled, but the easier ones are first
FUNBRAIN: provides free educational games, online books and comics, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
HIGHLIGHTS KIDS: many stories to read and listen to; also poems, articles, games. Click on the "READ IT" LINK to find more choices.
TUMBLEBOOKS: Better Beginnings (WA State Library) gives us free access to Tumblebooks – great books for all ages
Myths and Legends – upper primary. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling.
NEWS IN LEVELS: World news, written in different levels of difficulty
STARFALL: Free books to read for Junior Primary children.
Reading Bear, a project of WatchKnowLearn.org, is the first free program online to teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English, all using innovative rich media.
STORYLINE ONLINE: Developed by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favourite children’s books. Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube. Rainbow Fish, Wilfrid Gordon Macdonald Partridge, and To Be a Drum are just a few of the books available.
MY ONLINE READING: Stories organized by theme, not levelled, but easier ones are first.
ROSIE AND WALLACE: This series of 30 virtual books contains many frequently used sight words and is sequenced from simple text and repetitive sentence patterns to longer stories with more complex sentence structures. The books contain recounts and stories of Rosie the rosella and her best friend Wallace the wallaby. The books have been written to encourage and support students' use of picture and context clues and letter-sound knowledge. suitable for Early Phase students.
TALES WITH GIGI : these are youtube videos of fairy tales and folk tales, where the stories are read out loud.