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-Epic

-Youtube-(please check for quality)

-Readworks

-Public Library

-Look for grants for book purchases

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My students love to read with big Squishmallows :)

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My students love to read with big Squishmallows :)

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Ask for donations from Facebook friends!

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Ask for donations from Facebook friends!

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Offers free and affordable books with free shipping.

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Browse our online store for new and used books at BetterWorldBooks.com

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland.

Inspired by her father's inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans five countries and gifts over 2 million free books each month to children around the world.

"When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister. Who knows, maybe there is a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and singer.

The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world."

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Provides human-narrated audiobooks, including literature and textbooks for students with dyslexia, visual impairments, or other reading difficulties.

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Audiobooks for Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities | Learning Ally

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Learning Ally solutions help struggling readers through audiobooks & support services for educators, parents, and students dealing with dyslexia. Reading accommodations

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-Environmental print from community: sale ads, menus from restaurants, etc.

-Thrift store (my favorite)

-AAA: attraction brochures, travel guides, maps, etc.

-Facebook Marketplace

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Second and Charles Thrift Stores Amazon Marshalls TJ Max Ebay

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Second and Charles Thrift Stores Amazon Marshalls TJ Max Ebay

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Libby App

Public Library

Good Reads

Common Lit

Read Works

StoryLine on Line

You Tube

I like to adapt books for my students. So I take pictures of the characters, setting, title etc and use these to talk about the story. I especially like to find repetitive phrase books to include some of my students with limited mobility - so they can insert the phrase during reading. If I can I get props for the stories and sometimes use a puppet to read the story.

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Save magazines from neighbors, friends, ask other teachers to save from home to donate. Catalogs around the holidays are usually plentiful!

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Libby App

Hoopla App

Public libraries

Little Free libraries

Local Buy nothing groups on facebook

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Monarch reader (tarheel reader)

Youtube

Storyline online

bookater.com

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https://www.getepic.com/

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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Epic Books

Storyline Online

Reading A to Z free trial

RadWorks

Library of Congress

Public Library

Open Library

EdHelper has lots of leveled books (free trial)

Tumble books

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-Epic Books

-Storyline Online

-YouTube

-Timeshare brochures

-Thrift Store

-Second and Charles when they have teacher sales

-Friends that are looking to downsize

-Facebook Marketplace

-Facebook book swap groups

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Google your student's favorite food and print out the recipe

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Library of congress - https://www.read.gov/books/

Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

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-Big pillows

-book lights that clip to the book

-magnifying sheets can help students with low vision/visual impairments and can just be plain fun too

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Print your students' favorite video game manuals

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Thousands of full-color manual scans. Add your own instantly!

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Facebook MarketPlace

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Read Works

Visitor Centers

Discard carts at the library

Library sales

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Facebook swap groups

Teachers/Librarians cleaning out their classroom/school library

Not free, but I find some cool finds at my local thrift stores!

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Get Epic

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Stuffed animal to read with in the reading area.

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ABC Mouse

Barnes and Noble free ebooks

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Ask restaurants to give out menus, take flyers from stores, grab brochures and maps from theme parks and other places.

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Get Epic! Community book stations (ymca, schools, etc...)

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Get Epic! Community book stations (ymca, schools, etc...)

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Most Public libraries have a free section !

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Youtube

Reading A to Z

Epic

Vooks

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I buy them

Book fair

Other teachers

Get epic.com

Thrift & book stores

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Storyline Online is a free website where celebrities read stories aloud. Find your favorite celeb to read to your class. 😊

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restaurants

Travel centers

Grocery stores

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Storyline online

https://storylineonline.net/

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Reading A-Z

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Reading A to Z

Epic Books

Cereal boxes

Menus

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Go to thrift stores to find books! Especially seasonal books after the season ends!

-Megan

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Free books and lesson plans to help teach specific core words

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Our popular Core First Books & Lessons are available to special education teachers and parents in print format. Discover these 36 beautifully illustrated books designed to support you in teaching your students specific core words. Each of the 12 core words is supported with 5 unique lessons designed to be used over the course of a week. You have the flexibility to use the Books and Lessons in any way that is most supportive of your student.

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Our popular Core First Books & Lessons are available to special education teachers and parents in print format. Discover these 36 beautifully illustrated books designed to support you in teaching your students specific core words. Each of the 12 core words is supported with 5 unique lessons designed to be used over the course of a week.

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Books starting at $1 or less

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The powerful shopping cart software for web stores and e-commerce enabled stores is based on PHP5 with SQL database with highly configurable implementation based on templates

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Free bookbag with book and braille information for children with visual impairments ages birth to 7 years.

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Jump to "How to Order a Bag"
"The informational literature is exactly what I needed as I am her instructor and need as much information as I can find. The wonderful extras, flag and Wikki Stix, add to make the bag FUN! I have just opened the bag and have further exploration to do but I wanted to stop and offer a heartfelt thank you! Miracles do happen!"
- Bonnie Hoggatt
Did You Know?

Did you know that as a teacher of blind or visually impaired children you can request a free bag of beginning braille materials from National Braille Press for every student (ages 0-7) you work with?

Even if your student isn't currently learning braille or you are unsure whether they ever will, these free materials will expose them and their families to braille at an early age, increasing their awareness of braille and its life-changing potential.

Bags are available in English or Spanish.

Braille Bags Contain:

1. An age-appropriate print/braille book for three age groups, in English or Spanish: birth-3 (red bags), 4-5 (blue bags), and 6-7 (green bags);

2. A coupon for choosing two of the three following free items: a set of large print/braille playing cards; an additional print/braille book; a copy of Just Enough to Know Better -a braille primer for sighted parents;

3. A print/braille alphabet card, showing the braille symbol for each letter A-Z and each number 0-9;

4. Because Books Matter, a guide for parents on why and how to read books with their young blind child;

5. Because Pictures Matter, a guide for parents on using, finding, and creating tactile imagery;

6. A tactile graphic or flag;

7. A tactile ball (red bags only);

8. Wikki Stix, a product that allows a child to make tactile pictures (blue or green bags only);

9. Tactile Alphabet Letter sheets, showing upper- and lowercase print letters in raised-line format (blue bags only);

10. Tactile Number sheets (green bags only);

11. A braille caravan block.

What Other Teachers Are Saying

"Thank you! These bags have changed how my parents see how much their blind child loves their books! The resources in these bags are AWESOME! You could never know how thankful we are for these wonderful bags."
- Lina Jones

"Thank you! I am a teacher and distribute the bags to parents. I go over the great stuff in the bag and show them the coupon. Often parents are overwhelmed when there kids are this young and overlook doing that. I will continue to remind them with follow up visits! They really enjoy the books, ball and all the great information contained in the bag!"
- Andrea Amestoy

Ordering a bag is easy. Just fill out the request form below. Remember to let us know whether you want the bags sent to you (so you can hand deliver them to families), or if you want them sent directly to the child/family.

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NBP - ReadBooks! Program: Information for Educators

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use bean bag chairs

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​​​The Oakmont Visual Aids Workshop provides free materials to anybody working with children who are visually impaired.

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6637 Oakmont Drive, Suite A
Santa Rosa, CA 95409

"This is a wonderful service you provide. It is very difficult to obtain all of the materials needed in a classroom, especially for special needs children due to low budgets and high-priced materials."
Cynthia Bond, Olive Hill, Kentucky
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Oakmont Visual Aids Workshop provides
​​​ T he free materials to anybody working with children who are visually impaired.

​The learning aids are made by hand by a group of volunteers living at Oakmont Village, an Active Adult Community, in Santa Rosa, California.

For more information, explore our website to learn more about us, view our products and place an .
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Please mail a donation to help with the cost of materials!

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resources for teaching visually impaired and blind children

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The Oakmont Visual Aids Workshop in Santa Rosa, California, provides free tactile aids to educators working with children who are visually impaired or have special needs. Books in Braille with tactile illustrations, puzzles, tactile cards, games

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Have Book Fairy leave a new book in the classroom while students are out of the classroom. Can leave a note about the book on the blackboard.

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Monarch Reader, once called Tarheel Reader