Teachers and parents: are you looking for great resources for summer reading for your students? In this post we round up programs from Granite School District, our friends at the Salt Lake City Public Library and Salt Lake County Library systems, and a few more resources from the web in general. [Read more…] about Summer Reading 2015
Reading Resources
Featured Resource: TumbleBooks
TumbleBooks is an easy-to-use online database with hundreds of media-rich electronic books for children. Their selections include story books, nonfiction, graphic novels, chapter books, and foreign language books. TumbleBooks is provided to Salt Lake County residents for home use (including all students and parents in Granite School District) thanks to the Salt Lake County Public Library System. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: TumbleBooks
Featured Resource: Sync
Once again, the Audio Book Sync program will be giving away FREE young adult and classic literature digital audio books all summer long. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: Sync
Featured Resource: LitCharts
LitCharts offers high quality digital literature guides on over 225 works of literature. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: LitCharts
Featured Resources: National Poetry Month + Poetry Foundation
As April is National Poetry Month, we are featuring two great digital resources for bringing poetry into the classroom. [Read more…] about Featured Resources: National Poetry Month + Poetry Foundation
Featured Resource: Goodreads
Goodreads is a social network focused purely on books and reading. It is ideal for anyone who wants to keep a digital record of their reading life, including teachers and students.
Featured Resource: Newsela
Want to get up-to-date news articles on high-interest and diverse topics for students, customized to their reading levels? Newsela will do this for you!
OverDrive: Granite School District’s Digital Library
Granite’s OverDrive Digital Library provides students and teachers with access to a large collection of popular ebooks and audiobooks for independent, recreational, or teacher-assigned reading. These books can be read on a computer web browser or checked out and downloaded to a wide array of mobile devices via the OverDrive App. [Read more…] about OverDrive: Granite School District’s Digital Library
OverDrive Digital Library
(http://granite.lib.overdrive.com)
Granite’s OverDrive Digital Library provides students and teachers with access to a large library of popular ebooks and audiobooks for independent, recreational, or teacher-assigned reading. These books can be read on a computer or checked out and downloaded to a wide array of mobile devices via the OverDrive Media Console apps. OverDrive is currently available to all students and teachers grades 7-12, and is also being piloted at several elementary schools for the 2014-15 school year. Students log in to OverDrive by choosing their school name and using their student number. Teachers and staff members log in by choosing “Teachers” as their school name and entering their district computer username and password.
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