Literacy Websites

Dearborn’s Online Literacy Library Subscriptions

TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. 

myON is a complete literacy solution that reinvents the ways in which students and teachers interact with text. myON provides anytime, anywhere access to a library of more than 10,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia supports, real-time reporting and assessments and embedded close reading tools.

Unite for Literacy offers free ebooks for children, ready for immediate Get 500 books in the home of a child between the ages of 0–5 in multiple languages!

Free Reading Passages

Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that’s always relevant: daily news. It’s easy and amazing. See the impact Newsela can have on your classroom. See a Live Demo. Every Article has 5 different reading levels on the same topic.

ReadWorks provides over 2,200 K-12 non-fiction and literary reading passages, each with a research-based question set to support student comprehension. (Please note that you must be logged in to view passages.)