Given examples already have links to the websites.
The Fable Cottage
- Many bilingual tales for language learners
- Online written stories with audio
- Texts are savable in PDF
Books should be free
- Here you can find thousands of free audio books that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes format for your portable audio player
Spreader
- A great website for speed reading
- Copy and paste your text; click settings and adjust as necessary: words per minute, chunk size (number of words displayed at once), font size, and other settings
Vooks
- Vooks inspires a love of reading by making books accessible to children of all levels
- Brilliant for a reading lesson
- Variety of storybooks made to life
Word Art
- Word Art is a tool for creating word clouds
- Word Art has more room for creativity; the words will appear in a visual and colorful picture
- Click "create now," and then click "import" in the upper left hand corner, copy and paste your text into the text box, click "import words," then click the red "visualize" button
- You can customize your word cloud by changing the words, shapes, fonts, layout, and style; make sure you click "visualize" again after making any changes
New York times
- A brilliant resource for reading
Story Jumper
- Story Jumper has thousands of free books online; they are not all high quality, but many of them are
- They are mostly appropriate for young learners
ESL literacy readers
- Bow Valley College has an amazing library of online emerging literacy readers; they are an invaluable resource for teaching refugees or anyone with emerging literacy
- Focusing on American context
- All of the readers have accompanying audio, so learners can practice pronunciation and listening during reading as well