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Resource Library - Haskins Global Literacy Hub

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Trusted online resources for PARENTS and EDUCATORS

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As a mission-focused non-profit, it is Khan Academy's duty to do our part to ensure students keep learning amidst the school closures. We also want to support teachers and parents to the best of our ability as we navigate this crisis together. These schedules are meant to be templates that can be used as is, or modified to better suit the needs of your children, classroom or district.

As you can see, Khan Academy has self-paced, interactive content--exercises, videos and articles--for students in every grade and in most major subject areas. It is all free and non-commercial and is made possible by philanthropic support from people like you.

Enjoy using these and see our Keep Everyone Learning resource page for more information. To get the student schedules in another language click here.

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Daily schedule for school closures | Khan Academy

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As a mission-focused non-profit, it is Khan Academy's duty to do our part to ensure students keep learning amidst the school closures. We also want to support teachers and parents to the best of our ability as we navigate this crisis together.

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This and the following resources with hollow letter shapes - both upper and lower case - can be used in their current A4 size for teachers to model starting points and directionality. Pupils can also use this A4 resource to practise their letter formation in school and at home.

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Haskins Global Literacy Hub - Resource Library

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Online resources for parents and educators on how to teach LITERACY, SCIENCE and MATHEMATICS.

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An international and interdisciplinary collaborative non-profit organization bringing researchers, practitioners, educators, and technology specialists to br...

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create a FREE account to access loads of information about the science of reading. From research information, to demonstration videos, to sample lesson plans, and more... everything on our website is completely free!

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The Reading Universe is a creation of the Barksdale Reading Institute (BRI), a Mississippi-based philanthropic organization devoted to improving significantly our state's pre-literacy and reading skills.

For almost two decades, BRI has worked in K-3 classrooms with elementary teachers and principals to align early literacy instruction with up to date cognitive and educational science. The Reading Universe was introduced fifteen years ago as a way to illustrate to pre-service teachers how the various skills that are required for proficient reading fit within a larger picture.

The Reading Universe is not a scope and sequence for reading instruction, as every child may not need to be explicitly taught every skill as presented. However, every teacher should be equipped to teach each of the skills presented and in a systematic, explicit, and sequential way. This is our goal for teacher preparation and early literacy instruction in Mississippi.

We welcome your feedback about this site and how it can be more useful to your work in early literacy instruction.

Each block within the Reading Universe grid is a threshold to further examination of the skill. Clicking on a block links you to an explanation of the skill, videos of exemplary instruction, activities and lesson plans, and other high-quality resources courtesy of additional links to reputable partner organizations. To access all of these resources:

Download the Reading Universe grid to help you track where you are at-a-glance.

Go through each box to see the whole repertoire of ready skills and all the tools available.
or

Click on the skill that is most relevant to what you are teaching right now.

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The Reading Universe is a creation of the Barksdale Reading Institute (BRI), a Mississippi-based philanthropic organization devoted to improving significantly our state's pre-literacy and reading skills. For almost two decades, BRI has worked in K-3 classrooms with elementary teachers and principals to align early literacy instruction with up to date cognitive and educational science.

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Landmark School Outreach Program

Take advantage of our FREE, self-paced introductory course that provides educators with an overview of language development, executive function, language-based learning disabilities (LBLD), as well as effective teaching methodologies that can be put into practice immediately. https://www.canvas.net/…/teaching-principles-learning-disab…

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TacTilesApp

You will want the TacTilesApp!

You will find that the TacTilesApp is a versatile and customizable tool that you can individualize to your student and your preferred curriculum. This app will truly provide you with a tactile experience for your multi-sensory teaching.

Our app supplies an unlimited amount of tiles, the alphabet as well as many other common phonetic patterns (or letter combinations). These tiles are color-coded by their usage in words and storage within the app.

Each colorful virtual tile represents its own phoneme including advanced phonic patterns. Each virtual tile lists three word examples of its targeted sound. Additionally, prefixes and suffixes have definitions as well as the three word examples.

The TacTilesApp can be used to teach a variety of reading concepts: pre-reading skills, phonemic awareness, advanced phonetic patterns, syllable division, morphology etc. Other skills and concepts can be easily taught using the TacTilesApp including contractions, parts of speech, sentence structure, and punctuation. The App also includes various keyboard symbols - diacritical marks, syllable labels, praise emojis, and even numbers and basic math operation symbols.

Anyone that is teaching reading, spelling, phonics, grammar (or even basic math) this TacTilesApp is perfect for you!

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You will want the TacTilesApp! You will find that the TacTilesApp is a versatile and customizable tool that you can individualize to your student and your preferred curriculum. This app will truly provide you with a tactile experience for your multi-sensory teaching.

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A trip down memory lane with Harry Potter At Home | Wizarding World

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This year, we brought Hogwarts to you with a very special campaign called Harry Potter At Home. As the year comes to a close, we take a look back at some of our favourite moments.

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Learn how we can grow strong readers and writers with these pre-recorded webinars from our fall 2019 Literacy Champions symposium. Join Louisa Moats, Ed.D. and Nancy Mather, Ph.D. as they unpack decades of research. Be a literacy champion!

Session 1 |Knowledge of Language: The Critical Foundation for Reading (and Spelling) Instruction

Louisa Moats, Ed.D.

A nationally recognized expert on how children learn to read and why some struggle to learn, Dr. Moats is the author or coauthor of numerous books and publications on reading instruction, the professional development of teachers, and the relationship between language, reading, and spelling. In this 2.5 hour pre-recorded webinar, Dr. Moats busts myths about reading, discusses the state of literacy education, and shows us how spelling and reading are interconnected.

Session 2 | Understanding Dyslexia: Interventions

Nancy Mather, Ph.D.

Dr. Mather is the co-author of the Woodcock-Johnson IV and MindPlay Comprehensive Reading Course for Educators. In this 2.5 hour pre-recorded webinar, Dr. Mather focuses on eﬀective interventions for children who struggle with reading, spelling, and written language.

Professional Development Hours:

Each webinar is available for 2.5 professional development hours. Certificates of completion are available upon request after watching the webinar(s).

Webinar Access:

Please note that webinar access is not immediately available upon purchase. 1-2 business days after registering you will receive an email containing access to the recording(s) online and any handouts you may need.

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Literacy Champions Symposium Webinars | Stern Center for Language and Learning - Williston, Vermont

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Learn how we can grow strong readers and writers with these pre-recorded webinars from our fall 2019 Literacy Champions symposium. Join Louisa Moats, Ed.D. and Nancy Mather, Ph.D. as they unpack decades of research. Be a literacy champion!

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Courses and Workshops | Stern Center for Language and Learning - Williston, Vermont

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We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to learning for all as we recognize that all great minds don't think alike.

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ECHO-at-Home Learning - ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain

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ECHO might be closed, but the invitation to play and learn with us is always open. Use these resources as jumping off points for inspired science learning at home. Activities use simple materials commonly found around the house. Check back often and have fun learning!

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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks

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LibriVox is turning 18, and we've just got another year older better! In the last year, our volunteers have created over 1200 new audiobooks, so let's celebrate our anniversary with 10 of the latest gems from our catalog. The most exciting thing of last year was the addition of another language to our catalog: Indonesian.

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Download a Free Audiobook from Audible and also AudioBooks.com
Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. Also please see our related collection: The 150 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind.

Aristophanes - Lysistrata (performed by Lucy Lawless) - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - "Nightfall" - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - Radio Dramas of The Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Stories - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - "The Last Question" (readings by Leonard Nimoy) - Free YouTube Audio

Atwood, Margaret - "Stone Mattress" - Free Stream

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (read by Kate Beckinsale) - Free iTunes

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (alternative version) - Spotify

Auster, Paul - Free Stream - "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story"

Auster, Paul - Free MP3 - The Red Notebook (read by the author)

Babel, Isaac - Free MP3 - "The Story of the Dovecote" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Babel, Isaac - "You Must Know Everything" - Free MP3

Baldwin, James - "A Letter to My New Nephew" (read by Chris Rock) - YouTube

Baldwin, James - Fifty Famous Stories Retold - Free MP3 Stream/Download

Ballard, JG - "A Place and A Time to Die" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Ballard, JG - "Track 12" and "Venus Smiles" - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - Cocaine Nights - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" (read by William Boyd) - Free MP3

Ballard, JG - The Drowned World - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - "The Stories of JG Ballard" (dramatized for radio) - Free Stream

Balzac, Honoré de - La Comédie Humaine (French) - Free Downloads

Balzac, Honoré de - Le Père Goriot - Free Stream/Download

Balzac, Honoré de - The Peasant Story of Napoleon - Free MP3

Barrodale, Amie - "William Wei" (read by James Franco) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "Chablis" (read by Etgar Keret) - Free Stream

Barthelme, Donald - "Concerning the Bodyguard" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "Game" and "School" (read by T.C. Boyle) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "I Bought a Little City" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Barthelme, Donald - "The Royal Treatment" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Baum, Frank L. - The Wizard of Oz (read by Tituss Burgess) - Free iTunes

Baum, L. Frank - Rinkitink in Oz (Vol 10) - Free MP3

Baum, Frank L. - The Magic of Oz (Vol 13) - Free MP3

Baum, Frank L. - Glinda of Oz (Vol 14) - Free MP3

Beckett, Samuel - The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 - Free Audio Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) - Real Player

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Theatrical performance with Bert Lahr) - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - 'On Exactitude in Science' - Free MP3/Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Shakespeare's Memory - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - "The Book of Sand" - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) - Free Stream

Boyle, T. Coraghessan - "The Shape of a Teardrop‪"‬ (read by Boyle) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - Futuria Fantasia (a sci fi short story collected edited by Ray Bradbury) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - All Summer in a Day - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Golden Apples of the Sun - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Pedestrian - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell) - Spotify

Bradbury, Ray - Radio Dramas of Bradbury Stories - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - "The Last Night of the World" - Soundcloud

Brodkey, Harold - "Dumbness is Everything" (read by Michael Cunningham) - Free Stream

Brodkey, Harold - "Spring Fugue" (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) - Free MP3

Brodkey, Harold - "The State of Grace" (read by Richard Ford ) - Free Stream

Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey - Free iTunes

Brown, Margaret Wise - Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) - YouTube

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden (Read by Karen Gillan) - Free iTunes

Burroughs, William S. - Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Ghosts of Chance" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - Junky - MP3s

Burroughs, William S. - Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - The Best of William Burroughs, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Dead City Radio, Break Through in Grey Room, and Call Me Burroughs - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Thanksgiving Prayer" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - The Road to the Western Lands - Spotify

Calvino, Italo - Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "Love Far from Home" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - The Night Driver (read by Jeanette Winterson) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "The Daughters of the Moon" (read by Robert Coover) - Free Stream

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow) - Multiple formats

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream/Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic - Free iTunes

Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass (Read by Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway) - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - "Cathedral" (read by James Naughton) - YouTube

Carver, Raymond - "Chef's House" (read by David Means) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "Fat" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "The Students' Wife (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (Read by Carver) - Free MP3

Chabon, Michael - "S. Angel" - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Death of Justina" (read by John Cheever) - Free Stream/Download

Cheever, John " The Enormous Radio" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Reunion" (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

Cheever, John - "The Swimmer" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Cheever, John - "The Swimmer" (read by Cheever himself) - Free Stream

Chekhov, Anton - Collected Stories - Free MP3 Stream/Download

Chekhov, Anton - "The Beauties" (read by Philip Pullman) - Free MP3

Chekhov, Anton - Collected Stories - Free multiple formats

Chekhov, Anton - "The First Class Passenger," "Harmfulness of Tobacco" and "A Transgression" (Read by Michale Redgrave) - Spotify

Chabon, Michael - "S Angel" (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Chopin, Kate - Selected Stories - Multiple Formats

Christian Andersen, Hans - Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor's New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave - Free Spotify

Christian Andersen, Hans - Andersen's Fairy Tales - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "A Walk in the Dark" (A dramatized version of the text) - Free MP3 Stream

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Breaking Strain" - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End (Excerpts read by the author) - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Hammer of God" - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star" - Free Stream/Download

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Star" (Radio Drama) - Free Stream

Conan Doyle, Arthur - Beyond the City - Free MP3

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson - Free Stream

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings) - Spotify

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Mystery of Cloomber - Free MP3

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Narrated by Hayward Morse) - Spotify

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles' radio drama from 1938) - YouTube

Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer - Free MP3

Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer - YouTube

Cooper, James Fenimore - Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef - Free MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (Italian) - Free Stream from Princeton University

Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian) - Free Stream/MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

Danticat, Edwidge - "Seven" (read by Junot Diaz) - Free Stream

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) - Spotify

DeLillo's, Don - "Baader-Meinhof" (read by Chang-rae Lee) - MP3

DeLillo, Don - "The Itch" - Free Stream

Diaz, Junot - "Alma" (read by Victor Rasuk) - YouTube

Diaz, Junot - "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" - Free MP3

Diaz, Junot - "The Cheaters Guide to Love" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "Beyond Lies the Wub" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Defenders" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Eyes Have It" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Gun" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "The Hanging Stranger" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K - Radio Plays - Stream

Dickens, Charles - 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More - Free YouTube

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Dickens, Charles - Christmas Stories - Free MP3s

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground - Free MP3

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Free Stream/Download

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Gambler - Free MP3 Zip File - Free Stream

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Free Stream - Free MP3 Zip

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed - Free MP3

Doyle, Roddy - "Bullfighting" (Read by Dave Eggers) - Free MP3

Dr Who Audio Dramas - Spotify

Eliot, T.S. - The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt) - Free Spotify

Erdich, Louise - "The Stone" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - "Shingles for the Lord" - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - Faulkner Reads Faulkner - Free Stream

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - Free Stream

Flaubert, Gustave - Three Short Works

Ford, Richard - "Displaced" (Read by Richard Ford)

Forster, E.M. - "The Machine Stops" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends) - Video

Gaiman, Neil - "A Study in Emerald" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties" - Free MP3

Gaiman, Neil - "Orange" (read live) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Other People" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Troll Bridge" (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Gaiman, Neil - "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" - Free MP3

Gaitskill, Mary - "The Other Place" (read by Jennifer Egan) - Free MP3

Geng, Veronica - "Love Trouble Is My Business" (read by Jonathan Franzen) - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - "The Nose" - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat and Other Short Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Gordimer, Nadine - "A Style of Her Own" and "The Bridegroom" (read by the author, 1961) - Free Stream/Download

Gordimer, Nadine - "City Lovers" (read by Tessa Hadley) - Free MP3

Gordimer, Nadine - "Loot" (read by author) - YouTube

Gordimer, Nadine - "The Pet" (read by Joseph O'Neill) - Free Stream

Grahame, Kenneth - The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) - YouTube

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Rappaccini's Daughter - Free Stream

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Spotify

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "Wakefield" (Read by Paul Auster) - YouTube

Hayden, Julie - "Day-Old Baby Rats" (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3

Heinlein, Robert - Methuselah's Children (abridged) - Free Stream/MP3

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) - YouTube

Hemingway, Ernest - Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway - Free Stream

Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) - Free MP3

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - "Simple on Indian Blood"(read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "A Toast to Harlem" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Last Whipping" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Feet Live Their Own Life" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables - Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles - Multiple formats

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) - Free Stream

Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle - Free MP3

James, Henry - "Greville Fane" (read by Cynthia Ozick) - Free Stream/Download

Johnson, Denis - "Emergency" (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3

Joyce, James - "Eveline" (read by Sebastian Barry) - Free MP3

Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" - Free MP3 Zip File

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Bart Wolffe) - Spotify

July, Miranda - "Ron Spivey" (read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "A Little Fable" (Read by David Foster Wallace) - Free Stream

Kafka, Franz - "A Hunger Artist" (read by Hanif Kureishi) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "Before the Law" - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "In the Penal Colony - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - Free Stream - Spotify

Karloff, Boris - Tales of the Frightened - YouTube

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc - 18 Hours of Beat Readings - Spotify

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Figures in the Distance" (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Free MP3

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Girl" and "Wingless" (read by Edwidge Danticat) - Free Stream

King, Stephen - "Afterlife" - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - Free iTunes

Kipling, Rudyard - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - "The Elephant's Child" - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Story - Free MP3 Zip File

L'Heureux, John - "Three Short Moments in a Long Life" - Free MP3 Stream

Lahiri, Jhumpa - "Casting Shadows‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lawrence, D.H. - Everlasting Flowers - Free MP3 Zip File

Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband - Free MP3

Le Guin, Ursula - "The End" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) - Spotify

Lethem, Jonathan - "The Afterlife‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia - Free MP3s

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and His Boy

The Magician's Nephew

The Last Battle

Lewis, C.S. - The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese) - YouTube

Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) - YouTube

London, Jack - The Heathen - Free MP3

London, Jack -To Build a Fire - Free MP3

Lovecraft, H.P - The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories - Spotify

Lovecraft, H.P. - The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) - Free

Lu Xun - A Madman's Diary and Other Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice - Free MP3s/Download

McCabe, Eugene - Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) - Free MP3

McCann, Colum - "Transatlantic" (read by author) - Free MP3

McEwan, Ian - "My Purple Scented Novel" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) - Free Stream/Download

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities - SoundCloud

Miller, Arthur - Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman - Spotify

Miller Jr, Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) - Free Stream

Miller, William - Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) - YouTube

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) - Free iTunes

Milton, John - Paradise Regained - Free MP3 Zip File

Moore, Lorrie - "Paper Losses" (read by Gary Shteyngart) - Free Stream

Munro, Alice - "Axis" - Free MP3

Murakami, Haruki - "Barn Burning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "U.F.O. in Kushiro" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free MP3

Nabokov, Vladimir - "Pnin" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - Signs and Symbols - Free iTunes

Nabokov, Vladimir - Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems - Spotify

Nin, Anais - "Under a Glass Bell" (Read by the author) - YouTube

NPR - Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Read by author in 1959) - Stream/Download

O'Connor, Flannery - "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (Read by Estelle Parsons) - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "Revelation" (Read by Studs Terkel) - Stream

O'Connor, Frank - "The Man of the World" (read by Julian Barnes) MP3

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Mastiff" (read by Louise Erdrich) - Free Stream

Oates, Joyce Carol -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) - Soundcloud

Orwell, George - Animal Farm - Spotify version

Oz, Amos - "The King of Norway" (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) - Free Stream

Ozick, Cynthia - "The Shawl" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - Free Stream

Paley, Grace - "Love" (read by George Saunders) - Free Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Three Women (a radio play) - Free Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Essential Edgar Allan Poe - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Masque of the Red Death" and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado - Free MP3/Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs) - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Stan Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by John Astin) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) - SoundCloud

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Vincent Price) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason) - Free Stream

Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna - Free MP3 Zip File

Price, Vincent - The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) - Free YouTube

Pritchett, V.S. - The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) - Free Stream

Prokofiev, Sergei - Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) - Spotify

Proust, Marcel - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) - Free Stream

Ratcliffe, Stephen - Continuum - Free MP3 Stream

Rand, Ayn - Anthem - Spotify

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Little King‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Old Man in the Piazza‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Ruskin, John - The Golden River - Free MP3

Safran Foer, Jonathan - "Love is Blind and Deaf" - Video Animation

Saramago, José - "The Centaur" (Read by Nadine Gordimer) - Free MP3

Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Elliott Spencer" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Ghoul" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Love Letter" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sedaris, David - "The Mouse and the Snake" from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - Free MP3 - Web site

Sedaris, David - "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall' - YouTube Audio

Sedaris, David - "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle"from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Free MP3

Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) - Spotify

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) - YouTube

Schwartz, Delmore - "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Read by Lou Reed) - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare's Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More - Free on Spotify

Shakespeare, William - 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) - Spotify + Archive.org

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) - Free Spotify

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) - Free iTunes

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein - Free iTunes - Free MP3

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) - Spotify

Shepard, Sam - "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" read by Dave Eggers - Free Stream

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) - YouTube

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) - YouTube

Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Smith, Zadie - "Escape from New York" (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Audio Stream

Stein, Gertrude - If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - Matisse - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans - Free MP3

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) - Spotify

Stoker, Bram - Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Stone, Tanya Lee - The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - A Child's Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) - Youtube

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina - Free Stream

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina -

Tolstoy, Leo - Five Short Stories - Spotify

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Stream/MP3

Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live By and Other Tales - Free iTunes

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Multiple formats

Wells, Tower - "Leopard" (Read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3 Stream

Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers - Free MP3 Zip File

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Multiple versions here

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Spotify version

Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh - Free iTunes

Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Free MP3 Zip File

Updike, John - "Playing with Dynamite" (read by Roger Angell) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "A & P." (read by Allegra Goodman) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "The City" (read by John Updike) - Free Stream

Updike, John - "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" - YouTube

Updike, John - "Twin Beds in Rome" - Free Stream

Verne, Jules - Mysterious Island - Free iTunes

Verne, Jules - The Master of the World - Free MP3

Voltaire - Candide - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - 2BR02B - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron" - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Big Trip Up Yonder - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House (Abridged readings by Vonnegut) - Spotify

Vonnegut, Kurt - "The Drone" - Free Stream

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Soldier's Story (as a radio opera) - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "Good People" - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" (read by DFW) - Free MP3

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream

Welles, Orson - "The Shadow" radio drama (Performed by Welles) - Free MP3

Wells, HG - Magic Shop - Free Stream

Wells, HG - Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) - Free iTunes

Wells, HG - Time Machine (dramatized version) - Spotify

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) - Stream

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) - Spotify

Welty, Eudora - "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - MP3

Welty, Eudora - "Why I Live at the P.O." - YouTube

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence - Free iTunes

Wharton, Edith - The Fulness of Life - Free MP3

Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince - Free MP3

Version read by Stephen Fry - YouTube

Version read by Orson Welles and Bing Crosby - YouTube

Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest (Performed by John Gielgud) - Free

Wolff, Tobias - "Bullet in the Brain" (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)

Wolff, Tobias - "The Night in Question" (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)

Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out - Free Stream

Woolf, Virginia - The Short Stories - Spotify

Wyss, Johann David - The Swiss Family Robinson - Free MP3 Zip File

Poetry

Angelou, Maya - On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Phenomenal Woman - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morning (read by author) - YouTube

Anonymous - Beowulf - Free iTunes - Free MP3s - Reading by Seamus Heaney

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Marie (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le Voyageur (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Aragon, Louis - Elsa (read by author) - Free Stream

Arnold, Matthew - The Poetry of Matthew Arnold - Free Stream on Spotify

Arnold, Matthew - Dover Beach - Free Stream/Download

Ashbery, John - Everyman - Free MP3

Ashbery, John - "Meditations of a Parrot," "The Painter" and "The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers" (read by the author)- Free Stream/MP3

Ashbery, John - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; "Song of the Master and Boatswain," (read by Dylan Thomas) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939 - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song - Free MP3

Auden, W.H. - Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W. H. - In Memory of WB Yeats - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W.H. - The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Baudelaire, Charles - Les fleurs du mal (in French) - Free Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Tailpiece and 23rd Addenda (read by the author) - YouTube

Beefheart, Captain - Fallin Ditch, Skeleton Makes Good & More (read by the author) - YouTube

Blake, William - A Little Boy Lost - Free MP3

Blake, William - Jerusalem - Free MP3 Zip File

Blake, William - Laughing Song - Free MP3

Blake, William - London - Free MP3

Blake, William - Preface to Milton - Free MP3

Blake, William - Piping Down Valleys Wild - Free MP3

Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg - Free Stream/MP3

Blake, William - The Chimney Sweeper - Free MP3

Blake, William - The School Boy - Free MP3

Blake, William - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Spanish - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - Plainness - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) - YouTube

Bronte, Emily - Anticipation - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Encouragement - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Poems - Free MP3

Bukowski, Charles - 4 Hours of Bukowski Readings - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - At Terror Street and Agony Way - Free Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Beer - Animated Video

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Girl on the Escalator - Vimeo

Bukowski, Charles - Hostage - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Master Collection - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Laughing Heart (read by Tom Waits) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukowski) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird and Torched Out (read by Harry Dean Stanton) - YouTube Video

Burton, Tim - The Nightmare Before Christmas (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube Video

Byron - Childe Harold: Canto III - Free MP3

Byron - Darkness - Free MP3

Byron - Newton - Free MP3

Byron - She Walks in Beauty - Free MP3

Cage, John - Overpopulation and Art - Free Stream

Carroll, Jim - Praying Mantis - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Jabberwocky (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Carroll, Lewis - Youtube Animated Video

Carroll, Lewis - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - Late Fragment - Free Stream

Cavafy, C.P. - Ithaca (read by Sean Connery) - YouTube

Ciardi, John - As If: Poems New and Selected by John Ciardi (read by the author) - Spotify

Cocteau, Jean - Requiem (read by the author) - Free Stream

Cohen, Leonard - "For E.J.P" and "You Have the Lovers" (read by Cohen) - Free Stream/Download

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Coleridge, Samuel - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - The Dungeon - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Poems (Read by Ralph Richardson) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - The Best Cigarette (Poetry collection read by the author) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - Soap - Spotify

Crane, Hart - "The Broken Tower" and "The Hurricane" (read by Tennessee Williams) - Vimeo

Crowley, Aleister - Poems by Aleister Crowley (read by Aleister Crowley) - Spotify

Cummings, EE - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - (read by author) - YouTube

Cummings, EE - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town - (read by author) - YouTube

Dante - Inferno (read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

De Troyes, Chretien - Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart- Stream

Dickinson, Emily - An 8 Hour Reading of Emily Dickinson Poetry- YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Poems & Letters - Spotify

Dickinson, Emily - Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Hope Is the Thing With Feathers - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - 'I Started Early-Took My Dog' - YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - There's a certain Slant of light" (read by Susan Howe) - YouTube

Donne, John - Death, Be Not Proud - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Good-morrow - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Sunne Rising - Free MP3

Ehrmann, Max - Desiderata (Read by Leonard Nimoy) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by Alec Guinness) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Journey of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) - Spotify playlist

Eliot, T.S. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land - Free MP3

Listen to reading by TS Eliot - YouTube

Hear reading by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins - Stream

Eliot, T.S. - T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Baseball Canto - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Evil - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 'The First and the Last of Everything' (read by author) - Free Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - "Underwear" (read by author) - YouTube

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Wilfred Funk (read by author) - Free MP3/Stream

Frost, Robert - A Line Storm Song - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - My Butterfly - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - October - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - The Gift Outright (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Tuft of Flowers" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Frost, Robert - Robert Frost Reads His Poetry - Free Spotify

Gaiman, Neil - The Mushroom Hunters (read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Ginsberg, Allen - A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - America (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, and Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3/Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (first recorded reading of Howl by Ginsberg, 1956) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by James Franco) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Jahweh and Allah Battle - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg , Allen - Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Sunflower Sutra (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - The Last Word on First Blues - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - The Lion for Real (read by Ginsberg) - Free on Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - "The Shrouded Stranger Of The Night," "Sweet Levinsky," and "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City." - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - "What would you do if you lost it?" (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Witchita Vortex Sutra - Spotify

Giorno, John - The Death of William Burroughs - Free Stream

Hardy, Thomas - Poems (read by Richard Burton) - Spotify

Hemingway, Ernest - Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) - Free YouTube

Henley, Ernest - Invictus - Free YouTube

Hitchcock, Robyn - "If Death is Not the End" (Read by Alan Rickman) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes (read by Hughes) - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Glory of Negro History - Spotify

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hughes) - YouTube

Hughes, Langston - The Voice of Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Ted - Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes & Peter Porter Read Their Poetry - Spotify

Keats, John - To Autumn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode on a Grecian Urn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as recited loosely by F. Scott Fitzgerald) - YouTube

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Keats, John - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Free MP3

Keats, John - When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be - Free MP3

Kerouac, Jack - 4 Albums with Kerouac Reciting Poetry & Verse - Spotify

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Dennis Hopper) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Michael Caine) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Way Through the Woods - Free MP3

Levertov, Denise - City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Marriage, To the Muse, The Certainty (read by the author) - SoundCloud

Lorca, Federico Garcia (Read by Patti Smith) - YouTube

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Selected Works - Free MP3

McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" (read by Leonard Cohen) - YouTube

Melville, Herman - Ball's Bluff - Free Stream

Merwin, W.S. - After a Storm (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Merwin, W.S. - Berryman (read by Janna Levin - Free Stream

Milton, John - On His Blindness - Free MP3

Multiple Authors - 19 Century French Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - 20th Century French Poetry, Narrated by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - French African Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Nabokov, Vladimir - The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) - Free Stream

Nash, Ogden - Christmas with Ogden Nash - Spotify

Nash, Ogden - Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash - Spotify

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in English (1971) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Birth (Read by Neruda) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Keeping Quiet (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda - Spotify

O'Hara, Frank - Animals (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Stream

Oliver, Mary - "The Summer Day," "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night," "Many Miles" and "Night and the River" (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Ariel (read by author) - YouTube Stream

Plath, Sylvia - A Birthday Present (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Daddy (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Fever 103 (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Lady Lazarus (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) - SoundCould

Plath, Sylvia - Spinster - Soundcloud

Plath, Sylvia - The Applicant (read by the author) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - Annabel Lee - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Pope, Alexander - Nature and Art - Free Stream

Pope, Alexander - The Quiet Life - Free Stream

Pound, Ezra - Canto XVII ("So that the vine burst from my fingers') - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XXX - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XLV - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto LVI - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) - YouTube

Pound, Ezra - The Seafarer (read by author) - Free MP3

Rexroth, Kenneth - "One Hundred Poems from the Chinese" and "In Defense of the Earth" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rich, Adrienne - Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Rich, Adrienne - "Planetarium" (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - "Power" (read by astrophysicist Roseanne Cash) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) - Soundcloud

Rimbaud, Arthur - Illuminations - Free MP3 Zip File

Rumi - Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks - YouTube/Soundcloud

Sandburg, Carl - A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg - Spotify

Sandburg, Carl - Chicago - Free Stream

Sandburg, Carl - The People Yes - Spotify

Sassoon, Siegfried - Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - Waiting to Die (read by author) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - "Her Kind," "The Ambition Bird," "Ringing the Bells," "Music Swims Back to Me," and "The Truth the Dead Know" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "With Mercy for the Greedy," "The Starry Night," "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound," and "Self in 1958," (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - Divorce, Thy Name is Woman," "Gods Making a Living," "Jesus Cooks," "Jesus Walking," and "The Fury of Overshoes" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "Rowing," "Riding the Elevator Into the Sky," "The Play," "The Rowing Endeth," "Us," and "The Touch" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - What's That - Spotify

Schiller, Friedrich - Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski - Spotify

Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Free MP3s

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Adonais - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias of Egypt - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias (read by Bryan Cranston) - Free YouTube

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Various Poems (read by Vincent Price) - Free Spotify

Smith, Patti - Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) - YouTube

Smith, Patti - Reading of 12 Poems From "Seventh Heaven" (1972) - YouTube

Stein, Gertrude - A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (read by Gertrude Stein) - Free MP3

Stevens, Wallace - "Credences of Summer" and "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Stevens, Wallace - "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain," and "Vacancy in the Park" (read by the author) - .au format - .gsm format -.ra format

Stevens, Wallace - To an Old Philosopher in Rome (read by the author) - Free MP3

Szymborska, Wisława - Life While-You-Wait (Read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Break, Break, Break - Free MP3

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Free MP3/Stream - Quicktime - RealPlayer

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Lotos-Eaters - Free MP3

Thomas, Dylan - Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poetry - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden - Free

Thomas, Dylan - An Evening with Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait' and 14 Other Poems (read by Richard Burton) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the Sir Anthony Hopkins) - Free YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - The Wild West (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Updike, John - Rainbow (read by author) - Free Stream

Valéry, Paul - "Fragment Du Narcisse" (read by author) - Free Stream

Virgil - Aeneid - Free MP3 Zip Download

Whitman, Walt - O Captain! My Captain! - Free MP3

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself and Other Poems - Free Stream/MP3

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) - Free Stream/Download

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) - Free Stream

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by Orson Welles) - Free Stream

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by Eric Forsythe/U. of Iowa) - Free Stream

Wilbur, Richard - A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Wilde, Oscar - The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Free MP3/Stream

Williams, Tennessee - Selected Poems - Free Stream/Download

Williams, Willam Carlos - Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 ) - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - 39 Poems Read for The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. May 5, 1945 - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - The Red Wheelbarrow, Tract, The Defective Record, To a Poor Old Woman, A Coronal, To Elsie, The Wind Increases, Classic Scene (read by poet 1954) - Free

Wordsworth, William - Daffodils (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Wordsworth, William - The Last of the Flock - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Solitary Reaper - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Tintern Abbey - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - William Butler Reads His Own Work - Spotify

Yeats, William Butler - The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Fiddler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Mother, Coole and Ballylee (read by the author) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Byzantium - Real Media

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by Anthony Hopkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Sailing to Byzantium - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Cold Heaven - Free Stream/MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Fiddler of Dooney (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Song of the Old Mother (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear (read by Richard Dawkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old (Read by Colin Farrell) - YouTube

Non-Fiction

Amis, Martin - "Phantom of the Opera"

Aristotle - Poetics (MP3 download)

Aristotle - Politics (MP3 download full zip file)

Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School) - Spotify

Augustine, Saint - City of God (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 1 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 2(full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 3 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 4 (full zip file)

Berger, John - Fellow Prisoners (read by Berger)

Berkeley, George - A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (Free MP3)

Burke, Edmund - A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)

Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)

Burroughs, William S. - Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)

Burroughs, William S. - Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)

Camus, Albert - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)

Camus, Albert - The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) - YouTube

Camus, Albert - Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Campbell, Joseph - 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Symbolic Logic (Free MP3)

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic (Free MP3)

Channing, Edward - A Short History of the United States (full zip file)

Chomsky, Noam - 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)

Confucius - The Sayings of Confucius (MP3 full zip file download)

Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (MP3 download full zip file)

Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method (MP3 download).

Descartes, Rene - Meditations on First Philosophy (full zip file)

Dickens, Charles - A Child's History of England (full zip file)

Doctorow, Cory - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (Streamed)

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Dubois, W.E.B. - The Soul of Black Folks (iTunes)

Duchamp, Marcel - The Creative Act (YouTube)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History (MP3 download)

Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Relativity (MP3 download full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Albert Einstein in His Own Voice (Spotify)

Faulkner, William - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 (Soundcloud)

Foster Wallace, David - "Consider the Lobster" (Stream)

Foster Wallace, David - This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech (YouTube)

Foster Wallace, David - The View from Mrs Thompson's (read by the author)

Fuller, Buckminster - Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind - Spotify

Fuller, Buckminster - Everything I Know (Lecture Series) - Free Stream

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - "The Solitude of Latin America" (Nobel Prize Speech) (YouTube/Web Site)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 4. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Goethe - Theory of Colors (MP3s)

Grant, Ulysses S. - The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Various formats)

Harding, Samuel - The Story of the Middle Ages (Free Stream)

Henry, Patrick - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (MP3 download)

Henry, Patrick - Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 download)

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Interviews - Spotify

Hogben, Julie Margaret - "When the Doorman is Your Main Man" (Read by Cecily Strong) - Stream Online

Holmes, Oliver Wendell - The Fountain of Youth (mp3 download)

Huxley, Aldous - Speaking Personally - (Spotify)

Huxley, Aldous - The Visionary Experience - (MP3 stream)

James, William - The Moral Equivalent of War (mp3 download)

Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (mp3 download)

Jobs, Steve - Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)

Kandinsky, Wassily - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (mp3 download)

Kaufmann, Walter - Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

Lessig, Lawrence - Free Culture

Lincoln, Abraham - Gettysburg Address (mp3 download)
Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)

Macauley, Thomas - History of England (Librivox)

Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)

Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)

McCleod, Ken - Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (Spotify)

McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium is The Massage (Spotify)

Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism (mp3 download full zip file)

Morrison, Toni - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (YouTube)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Ecce Homo (full zip file)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (full mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Twilight of the Idols (full zip)

Nin, Anais - The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author (YouTube)

Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (mp3 download)

Plato - The Apology of Socrates (stream/download)

Roosevelt, Theodore - Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa (mp3 download)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (full zip file)

Russell, Bertrand - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (read by Derek Jacobi)

Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am Not a Christian (read by Terrence Hardiman)

Sedaris, David - Santaland Diaries (read by David Sedaris)

The Senate Intelligence Committee - The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture (Read by Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Matthew Rhys and Maura Tierney)

Steinbeck, John - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 (YouTube)

Strathern, Paul - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (YouTube Stream)

Sun-tzu - The Art of War (mp3 download)

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (mp3 download)

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (mp3 download)

Various - The Federalist Papers Rss Feed

Various - The US Constitution Stream

Voltaire - Candide (mp3 download)

Vonnegut, Kurt - Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch (YouTube)

Wiesel, Elie - Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)

Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis (read by Patti Smith)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Maybe your child is learning virtually this year. Maybe she is learning at school on certain days and at home the rest of the week. Or, as has become increasingly common, maybe your child has been learning at school but is now transitioning to virtual learning as COVID rates in your area rise. Regardless of the number of days your child is learning at home, creating a learning space will make things easier, and more sustainable. Read on to learn more about how to do this.

Create a Learning Space

If possible, create a place where your child can work, or if you have more than one child, where each child can work. For example, one child can work at the kitchen table and another in the living room. If your child already had a place to do homework, he or she can use that place to learn at home. Having a space can help your child stay focused on learning. This space should be quiet and free of clutter and other distractions.

Tip: Limit Common Distractions

Below are some common challenges for setting up a learning space. Click on each for ideas.

If you have supported your child's learning at home anytime over the course of the pandemic, you've probably already learned a lot about what worked and what didn't. Perhaps a shared learning space was too small for multiple children to use. Maybe a family member interrupted "class" by watching TV with the volume turned way up. Maybe an older sibling turned out to be better at explaining 4th-grade math than you did. Think about what worked and what didn't and use that information to plan for a better situation as you move forward.

Depending on your family dynamics, consider having a series of family meetings to discuss these issues. Brainstorming together might result in more creative ideas. When everyone is able to contribute, they also might be more willing to abide by the solutions.

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The CUBED is a family of screening and progress monitoring tools that accurately, reliably, and efficiently measure language comprehension, decoding, and their product, reading.

The CUBED is primarily designed to be a criterion-referenced universal screening and progress monitoring assessment. It can also be used as a norm-referenced assessment. The CUBED can validly, reliably, and efficiently measure the constructs of decoding and language comprehension, and their product, reading for students in preschool through third grade. The results of the CUBED can directly inform instruction and provide information on a student's modifiability and zone of proximal development. The assessments were designed specifically for preschool through third grade students, but when used as a criterion-referenced assessment, older students can also be administered the CUBED. Two major constructs are measured with the CUBED: languageanddecoding.

There are two main subtests of the CUBED - the Narrative Language Measures and the Dynamic Decoding Measures, which together measure 18 targets so you can capture the FULL picture of your student's literacy!

Language comprehension, decoding fluency, and reading comprehension are assessed using the Narrative Language Measures (NLM). The NLM is comprised of two measures: the NLM Listening and the NLM Reading. Additional sections assess expressive oral language through personal story generation, and written language through personal story writing-all in the context of narration.

Results of the NLM Listening provide clear information on how well a student can understand an oral narrative, produce story grammar and include important language complexity features, produce or approximate a complete episode, answer questions about the story, answer inferential vocabulary questions, and independently generate an oral story.

Results of the NLM Reading provide clear information on reading fluency and decoding errors. Using a reading retell format, comprehension can be measured. A student's ability to answer questions about the story, define less common words, and independently write a personal story can be documented.

Decoding is assessed using the Dynamic Decoding Measures (DDM). The DDM is comprised of three measures: Phonemic Awareness, Word Identification, and Decoding. Each measure assesses a specific skill related to or reflective of decoding. Within each measure a dynamic assessment that either uses a 'testing the limits' or 'test-teach-retest' approach is used with three different targets that provide specific information on a student's strengths and weaknesses. Students are typically administered the more difficult or more mature targets first, and then subsequent targets are assessed until a student's current level of performance is identified.

Results of the DDM provide clear information on what a student can currently do, what a student needs to learn, and how ready and responsive the student will be to learning the next level of material for phonemic awareness, letter names, letter sounds, irregular words, and decoding CVC, CCVC, and silent 'e

are quick and efficient to administer and score;

serve as universal screening (or benchmark assessment) and progress monitoring measures;

identify students in need of more intensive decoding, language, decoding fluency, or writing intervention;

evaluate the effectiveness of interventions; and

play an integral role in a multi-tiered system of support focusing on both decoding and language.

Purposes of the CUBED:

Benchmark screening

Progress monitoring

Identification of students performing significantly below peers

Intervention planning

Why focus on language? Expand your focus beyond decoding and get the full picture!

It's an unfortunate fact; most students in the U.S. do not understand grade level reading material. To battle this, there has been a primary focus on students' decoding abilities. This is only part of the picture and an emphasis on decoding alone will not result in the desired reading outcomes. True reading is the product of decoding and language. Informed by extensive empirical research, the CUBED represents advancements in language assessment that help educators measure all of the critical dimensions of literacy, including phonemic awareness, word identification, decoding, decoding fluency, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, expressive language, and writing. Because reading comprehension and listening comprehension reflect the same construct of language, the CUBED can assess reading comprehension of young students even before they have learned to decode. The CUBED measures are highly efficient and provide in-depth information about intervention targets while maintaining validity and reliability standards.

Most curriculum-based measures do not directly inform instruction, but the CUBED has been carefully engineered to do just that. Of course, the CUBED is not a comprehensive assessment and does not measure everything needed for academic success. However, the concepts, and in some cases even the specific information (e.g., irregular words) can be directly taught to students. The relationship between student performance on the CUBED assessment and instruction/intervention is remarkably clear. Once students have been identified as needing more intensive intervention, the same information should be used to organize students into groups according to individualized intervention needs. The Insight system facilitates this process.

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Students can create a personal connection to environmental issues and build empathy with their peers from around the country by participating in the KQED Youth Media Challenge.

April 22 will mark 50 years of Earth Day, and environmental issues are on the minds of many young people. The Let's Talk About Election 2020 youth media challenge, co-hosted with the National Writing Project and PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, invites students from across the country to share personal commentaries on the issues that matter most to them. Climate change is by far the most popular topic. To kick off your Earth Day class discussions, we've chosen a few audio and video pieces that can be a great way to engage students in environmental issues related to climate change.

Ocean pollution, food webs and engineering solutions.

This video from a middle school student in Mississippi discusses how ocean pollution can affect humans both directly and indirectly. The student offers a potential solution of oil-eating bacteria that were discovered during the 2010 Gulf spill.
📹➡️📝This student points out that humans can be affected by oil spills through the food they eat, providing a perfect opportunity to discuss food webs and the interconnectedness of our ecosystems.

NGSS.DCI.LS2A - INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS IN ECOSYSTEMS | NGSS.DCI.ESS3C - HUMAN IMPACTS ON EARTH SYSTEMS

📹➡️📝 Students can also research the oil-eating microbes that were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. You can pair the student video submission with this 7-minute NPR clip interviewing one of the scientists who studied the microbe. Then, students can offer their own potential solutions to ocean pollution using the engineering design process.

NGSS.SEP.6 - CONSTRUCTING EXPLANATIONS AND DESIGNING SOLUTIONS

Individual actions can lead to policy change.

This audio piece from students in California considers how our own actions can create change both because of their direct cumulative impact and their influence on policy makers.
🎧➡️📝 Use this piece to inspire students to explore the ways in which humans can impact the environment both positively and negatively.

NGSS.DCI.ESS3C - HUMAN IMPACTS ON EARTH SYSTEMS | NGSS.CCC.9 INFLUENCE OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY, AND SCIENCE ON SOCIETY

Extreme weather events are happening more frequently.

This audio piece from a California high school student discusses the wildfires that have devastated the state for the past few years.
🎧➡️📝 This piece can be used to introduce a student project around investigating extreme weather events that may be impacted by climate change, such as tornadoes or flooding--that are having an impact on their local community.

NGSS.DCI.ESS3C - HUMAN IMPACTS ON EARTH SYSTEMS | NGSS.CCC.2 - CAUSE AND EFFECT

The big picture of climate change.

In this video, a student contemplates what the future might be like if our climate continues to warm.
📹➡️📝 This video will get students in a future-thinking mindset. Then, students can look at different climate models to predict what the world might look like given each of the scenarios in this IPCC report.

NGSS.DCI.ESS3C - HUMAN IMPACTS ON EARTH SYSTEMS | NGSS.DCI.ESS3D - GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE | NGSS.SEP.4 - ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING DATA

Climate change's impact on society.

This video commentary explores how climate change can affect personal mental health and even increase political conflict over resources.
📹➡️📝 This video can kick off a student research project on the climate-driven factors of political conflict. This student cites many scholarly journal articles, including one from Science about the rise of conflict risk due to climate change, that students can use as a starting point.

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The Louisiana Accessible Educational Materials programs is a project of the Louisiana Department of Education and the Louisiana Special School District. We are available to help you answer technical questions or address the individual needs of students in Louisiana. If you have questions please email: administrator@ssdla-aem.org .

To request a service from Louisiana AEM please complete .

The following list consists of online resources that you can provide your learner at home who needs additional support. These tools all offer useful features at no cost for the basic plans.

No matter what technology you have at home there are some ways to make content more accessible such as having text read out loud or just making the font bigger so it is easier to read. Below you will find information on some of these tools for each major operating system.

Chromebooks or Chrome Web Browser - (Not Tablets)

- To download useful tools called "extensions" to the Google Chrome browser you need to download them from the Chrome Web Store.
Chrome Extensions for Reading

ReadWrite for Google Chrome - Provides text to speech for written materials online including Google Docs, PDFs and EPUB files. They provide teachers access to the premium features at no cost by filling out .

- BeeLine Reader is a research-backed tool that improves reading ability for students of all ages and skill levels. By displaying text using color gradients that wrap from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, BeeLine facilitates visual tracking and enables the reader to focus on other aspects of reading, such as decoding and comprehension.
Chrome Supports for Writing

- From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express yourself. You'll get suggestions from Grammarly as you write on Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, and nearly everywhere else you find yourself writing. Grammarly is a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback. You can be confident that your writing is not only correct, but clear and concise, too. Be sure to register your account to receive a personalized writing report each week to help you track your progress and identify improvement areas.

Voice Typing in Google Docs - Google Docs has a built in dictation function. Once you turn it on users can type out sentences using their voice.

iPhones/iPads

- The ASL App is made by Deaf people for you! Learn conversational ASL right now, on the go, with all phrases and signs organized to make it easy for you to learn.

- Ages 3-5 - Creative Learning game. Play tic-tac-toe with a dragon fly. Carefully avoid bees while picking apples. Complete colorful patterns of buttons and beautiful yarn. You'll even sort bugs from a button factory conveyor belt.

- Features free apps to promote math practice on IOS devices.

Operating System Accessibility Guides

Regardless of which computer/device you have access to there are ways to make content more accessible such as having on screen text read out loud or just making the font bigger so it is easier to read. The guides below will help you provide these accommodations no matter which device you or your student have access to.

Microsoft Accessibility Guide - This page features information on how to use Windows to provide accessible materials. Topics covered include support for vision, hearing, speech, mobility and learning.

Apple MAC - This page is for MAC users (not iPhone/iPad) and contains information on how to make the MAC for accessible for individuals with unique needs.

Text to speech in IOS - Hear text spoken aloud on the iPhone and iPad.

Lock IOS into one app using Guided Access - This is useful when the learner wants to play games on an iPhone/iPad instead of using the device the way they should. This setting will lock the device into one app until the code you select is entered.

- This page is for Android users and contains information on how to make the Android phones/tablets more accessible for individuals with unique needs.

"Books" and Content Available Online

- If your child has an IEP which requires "Accessible Educational Materials" be provided he or she may have access to Bookshare through their school. Ask the special education teacher for the login and if this is the case you can sign in. Bookshare is also opening up resources to teach from home . Use app on your mobile device to read books or access on the web. This is the best way to get books that can be read aloud.

Writing Support

Communication

Blind / Visual Impairment

This article covers establishing a routine, helping around the house, ideas for young children and games.

Other Useful Resources

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In an instant, life as we know it changed-for everyone. Daily routines are interrupted. Social-even extended family-relationships are stymied by avoidance and protective gear. Work, school, and shopping look very different. History is being made with the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. A family time capsule (#CaptureCapsule) assembled during these turbulent times will record the life-changing events of 2020 and will provide a historical reference that your family can later reflect on. In ten years, you can see how your family endured the crisis.

Benefits of Creating a Time Capsule

A time capsule affords a teaching tool and educational opportunity. Collecting, recording, and preserving what is happening will encourage communication and writing skills for kids. Learning to observe the world around us and address fears may help bring understanding, peace, and comfort to a child as the family participates in actual historic events. Looking for the fun and humorous things that take place can also lighten the emotional load of this crisis. Preserving memories can offer a sense of control for a family in an "out of control" situation. Your own #CaptureCapsule will become a personalized family history record of the daily experiences, fears, fun, challenges, and unusual happenings that began in March 2020.

How to Create a Time Capsule

Starting now, encourage your family to assemble items that illustrate the experiences they are having and the changes in society that are taking place. Find a sturdy box or plastic bin where the family can deposit items they collect for the time capsule. The box or bin should be good quality-able to withstand time-and have a secure lid. Keep the bin accessible during the crisis so items may be added often, but in a safe place where the memories can be secure. Encourage family members to decorate it and put "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2030!" signs on the top. Consider creating a digital file where family photos and historical moments can be preserved and downloaded. Add a flash drive or printed items to the bin before sealing.

Plan now for a long-term place to store your bin when completed so it will be accessible in 10 years for a family journey back in time. If you like, you may register your #CaptureCapsule with the International Time Capsule Registry so you know where to find it and when it should be opened.

Suggestions of items to add to your bin include a weekly paragraph, or journal entry, from each family member, recording impressions and events of the quarantine life as your family stayed at home. Include photos of the family with a list of all names and ages both in the home and those that live away (grandparents, aunts, and uncles). Share how you stay in touch with your extended family.

Don't forget to add articles you find about the life-altering school closures and copies of completed schoolwork, with names, dates, and ages. Detail any work layoffs, travel restrictions, and shopping extremes you have experienced. Capture how you celebrate birthdays, and major life events. Remember to add personal daily things like listing the games you play, the programs you watch, and the foods you prepare and eat together. Note those signs at the grocery store and other community changes.

New jokes, memes, and humor in any form would be excellent additions. Adding an empty roll of toilet paper with an explanation may say a lot in ten years! Photos of the family in masks or gloves would show the measures taken. Don't forget the new phrases-with explanations-now commonly used such as "six-feet apart," "Social Distancing," "Flattening the curve," etc. Sudden changes catch our attention, but as they become the new normal, we are less likely to recall how life changing they seemed. Daily recording is essential to keep up.

It is OK to include serious things, like what it was like to have family financial concerns and what you did to cope. How has COVID-19 touched your family's health concerns? What measure are you taking to stay safe?

Record things you are thankful for, the music you listen to, the books you are reading, the spring time, the song of the birds or blossoming flowers. Feel free to add the things you would change, if you could. You might capture what the family did for haircuts, and what your daily routine is.

Writing down or video journaling your thoughts, dreams, and your biggest concerns will provide a window of understanding and reflection that will bring the memories of this time to life.

Your family is making history. Use your #CaptureCapsule to learn from the experience and see how you did in the rear-view mirror of 2030.

Share Your Capture Capsule!

Once you've gathered the contents for your family's time capsule, take a photo or video of your capsule or any of the pieces you're including in it, and share that with other K12 families by submitting it in the form below!

Additional Resources

Legacy Project
How to Make a Time Capsule
Rekindled Spaces on Making a Time Capsule
PrettySmart MAKING A DIY TIME CAPSULE
Chatbooks: A fast, easy way to preserve family memories
Facebook Memories
FreeMake.com Resources for Online Diaries

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Learning about engineering doesn't have to be a bore. If it's raining outside and you have time to kill, why not challenge your kids to craft an indoor boomerang, design a robot or replicate the Eiffel Tower? If you're looking for your next hands-on project, try one of the eight STEM ideas below.

1. Design a Race Car Bot

Your kids can design their very own robot using an old Hot Wheels car and a washable marker. You'll also need a 1.5-volt motor, electrical tape, a hot glue gun, and a AAA battery. To get started, attach the wire to your hobby motor with electrical tape. Then, carefully glue the engine to the car.

The last step is to add the marker. Let your kids choose their favorite color and attach to the back of the car with hot glue. Once everything is dry, lay the bot down on a piece of blank paper, remove the marker cap and let it loose.

2. Build a STEM Boat

Design three types of boats, each powered by different methods that combine major core elements of science, technology-engineering, and mathematics. Before you start, be sure to wear appropriate safety gear, including latex gloves and durable clothing. And inspect the wood you are using to remove any metal, such as nails, before attempting to cut into it.

One design option, the putt-putt boat, is a steam engine created by coiling a copper tube, filling it with water, and heating it with a small candle. The steam causes the coil to suction water up the tube and out the other side, pushing the boat along. Or try your hand at the paddle boat, powered by a winding wood paddle and a rubber band.

3. Construct a LEGO Zip Line

Spruce up any rainy day by creating your own LEGO zip line inside. You'll need a clothesline and some LEGOs, as well as any beloved mini-figures who want to take a ride.

Attach a rope or clothesline to two fixed points in your home. Don't be afraid to test out different angles to experiment with gravity and motion. Next, build your LEGO zip line platform and add a spot to attach the pulley. Once made, send your LEGO people for a ride or a surprise crash landing.

4. Create a Light-up Bug

Kids can learn about electricity and circuity the safe way by building an electric lightning bug out of Play-Doh. Gather some card stock, Play-Doh, safety glasses, and a 10mm LED bulb and battery pack. The dough is used to make the body, head, and eyes of the bug. Cardboard is fashioned into wings and a neck, while toothpicks are used to simulate antennas.

Next, stick the two wires into either side of the bug's body. Remember which is positive and which is negative. Then, attach the wires to the battery pack and switch it on to watch your creation come to life.

5. Try the Egg Drop Challenge

The Egg Drop Challenge is a great way to learn and have fun at the same time. The goal is to create an egg-carrier that can withstand a drop from a substantial height. Kids are encouraged to think outside the box and get as creative as possible.

You'll need fresh eggs and a variety of materials. Some things you can use include cardboard, sponges, cotton balls, tissue paper, and masking tape. You can also set rules like the design must fly or be under 10 inches in height.

6. Craft an Indoor Boomerang

A boomerang is a fun way to teach your kids about physics. Cut the body of the boomerang from heavy card stock or thin cardboard. It's important that the arms of your boomerang are the same shape. Use tape to attach them at 120° angles.

If your kids want to get creative, they can decorate their boomerangs before taking flight. Once ready, try launching the craft at different speeds and angles to test what works best. You can also bring it outside and try to get the boomerang to come back to you.

7. Engineer the Eiffel Tower

You don't have to take a trip to Paris to be inspired by the Eiffel Tower. This project can be made using many types of materials, including newspapers. You will also need a stapler and some tape.

To get started, roll the newspaper into tubes. Once you have enough, cut them to different lengths and start constructing the tower. Have a simplified blueprint with measurements you and your kids can follow, and build from the bottom up.

8. Make an Articulated Grabber

You kids will love creating a wooden grabber they can experiment with for weeks to come. To start, cut two Popsicle sticks into quarters. Then, create four beams by inserting them into both ends of the straws, making a criss-cross pattern.

Next, use a wooden skewer to make a small hole between each gap. Break off the skewer while still in the hole, leaving behind 2-3 inches. Once finished, kids can use the grabber to pick up plastic cups, pencils, and more.

With the right projects and experiments, learning about engineering can be both fun and productive.

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As parents, you know there are many ways to enrich your child's speech and language skills, including games, books, and language modeling activities. Online speech therapy resources offer your child a way to refine and practice their speech and language skills at home. Sometimes your child needs a little extra speech therapy, whether it is to refine certain skills they are learning on at school, reinforce what they are working on with their SLP, or just an extra resource to help build speech sounds. When looking to enhance your child's speech therapy using online resources, we have located a few favorites that won't take a bite out of your wallet.

Looking for Virtual Speech Therapy?

Speech Buddies Connect is the first online network for parents to find and book appointments with top-quality, certified & local speech professionals. You can filter your search to find Speech-Language Pathologist that offer virtual therapy in your state.

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Tongue Placement Tools for the R, S, SH, CH, & L Sounds: Speech Buddies Placement Tools are easy to use. They train the tongue to make the correct shape by providing targets that you can feel. They help with lisps and pronunciation. Getting started is simple. Choose the right tools for your child, practice for 10 minutes 3 times a week, and see results. With a little guidance, kids 5 and up can even use them on their own! Each kit includes a customized instruction guide, a special carrying case, and online games. The 30 day guarantee makes trying Speech Buddies
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Speech Therapy Practice Cards: Flashcards are a fun way to practice any words as well as the R, S, SH, CH, and L sounds. These cards are specifically designed to tackle tricky sounds at the beginning, middle and end of words. The cute pictures and suggested games will entice any child to practice their speech.

Speech Delay Book Bundle: This Speech Delay Book Bundle encourages first words. Memorable songs and silly questions entice children to express themselves and help speech delay. These books are great for children ages 1 year to 6 years old and are perfect for any child learning to talk.

6 Favorite Online Speech Therapy Websites:

StoryPlace.org: StoryPlace.org is a website that has a number of online stories and interactive activities for preschoolers and elementary-aged students. Each theme includes an online story, online activity, printable "take-home" activities and suggestions for parents. A booklist that corresponds to each theme is also offered.

FunwithSpot.com is a cute website for preschoolers and young children. Children familiar with the Spot book series will love the fun language-based games. There are also parent and teacher resources.

FunBrain.com; This website offers a number of free online games for kids. Games touch upon a variety of topics, including vocabulary, grammar, reading, math and some that are just for fun! Check out Plural Girls, Grammar Gorillas or click on the reading tab for some great language activities.

Scholastic.com: Scholastic.com's Family Playground is a great website for preschool and school-age children and their parents. This website includes a variety of games and activities for children related to popular characters and children's books such as Clifford, Magic School Bus, Walter Wick, and I Spy.

Articulation Games (by Tracy Gefroh Boyd): This is a great site where children plan a variety of games to practice r's, s's, l's, sh's and ch's.

The Tongue Twister Database: A fun collection of tongue twisters to practice speech sounds and giggle at the same time!

Tell us some of your favorites! We'd love to build our collection!

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An important part of using online speech therapy tools is to interact with your child while he or she is online. The best online speech therapy sites are not intended to engage your child passively, (think staring at a video game on tv), rather they are to be used as a tool to engage your child and get his brain making connections. Making learning fun is also a crucial component to get your child engaged. Playing online speech therapy games should not feel like homework for your child, rather, a fun activity that you can do together. Here are a few of our favorites, what are some of yours?

Update: The Speech Buddies Team just added some boards to the FREE Bitsboard app! It's easy to download and play speech games today on your iPad or iPhone! Bitsboard is a revolutionary app that allows anyone (educators, education companies like Speech Buddies, and even parents) to customize fun, visually pleasing, and versatile games around a given theme.

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Update 19/3/20: It seems students aren't the only ones getting some Adobe love in these testing times - if you're an existing subscriber of any kind, you can get two months of Creative Cloud access for free thanks to a hidden cancellation offer. Just follow the link below to find out how to unlock it - or carry on reading below to find out about the free home access for students.

Adobe is helping students who are stuck at home because of the Covid-19 outbreak with free, temporary remote access to Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and InDesign.

In order to get access to the apps your school or college needs to be an education customer and the temporary licenses will only be available until May 2020. But it's a potential lifeline for those who need to continue their Adobe-reliant studies or coursework outside of their school or campus.

So how do you go about getting remote Creative Cloud access? Naturally, it's a fairly rigorous process, with only school IT admins able to request home access via an application form here.

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So far, not all schools and campuses have closed their doors due to the Covid-19 outbreak, with most doing so on a case-by-case basis. But it is becoming increasingly common, and with many looking for ways to transition to online learning, Adobe's offer is certainly very welcome.

It also follows Adobe's announcement last week that its Connect web conferencing software would be free to everyone until July 1 2020. Adobe says that many US government agencies have used Connect as an always-open area for their employees to share real-time info, while it's also popular among schools and universities as a platform for remote teaching.

As the knock-on effects of the Covid-19 virus spread, an increasing number of students and employees will be working from home - and fortunately, we live in an era when remote working is relatively straightforward for many people, thanks to video conferencing software and gestures like Adobe's temporary free remote Creative Cloud licenses.

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Using paintings and other artworks in lessons can help teachers meet content-area standards connected to promoting student inquiry.

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In No More Telling as Teaching, Cris Tovani and Elizabeth Birr Moje suggest that students often expect teachers to do most of the thinking for them in class. A comfort level exists for both parties when a single narrative removes the messiness of understanding topics beyond the surface level. Yet new content-area standards, such as those informed by the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework, require that students be the ones asking questions, grappling with texts, and drawing their own conclusions about course concepts.

Repurposing instruction to elicit or incorporate students' ideas can seem daunting, especially when teachers must address specific content in their courses. Inquiry and structure do not need to be mutually exclusive, though. In my classes, I frequently ask students to examine common sources using a specific lesson progression, with the understanding that no two individuals will emerge with the same conclusions from that work.

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To that end, I sometimes use works of art as launching points for my lessons. Viewing art can be powerful because each piece reflects the artist's interpretation of his or her world. Likewise, students' interpretations of the art will vary depending on their prior knowledge, observational skills, and interests.

Museum educators use three guiding questions from Visual Thinking Strategies to elicit discussions, and they can help students focus when they view an artwork in the classroom for the first time as well:

1. What's going on in this picture?

2. What do you see that makes you say that?

3. What more can you find?

When I design a lesson around an art piece, I don't simply jump into a discussion using these questions, though-I ask students to spend the first several minutes of the class observing the image independently and writing down their reflections to answer the questions. I write out my reflections with them every time, too, even though I'm familiar with the image, to model that my understanding evolves over time.

In their book , Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle share that such extended periods of freewriting help students generate new ideas and communicate first-draft thinking. To further that kind of thinking, I later ask students to revisit and confirm or revise their responses as they encounter additional texts that, in some way, connect to the initial image.

For example, I focus a ninth-grade Modern World History lesson related to the French Wars of Religion around a painting of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre by François Dubois. So much is happening in the painting, and students almost always ask questions about why people are being thrown from windows, who the different groups represent, and what caused the conflict in the first place. Students write down their initial thoughts using the freewriting technique described above, and volunteers then share their comments through whole-class discussion.

The "investigation" part of the lesson comes when I ask students to work in pairs to read a short textbook segment related to the subject of the painting. I typically use an interactive reading guide inspired by Doug Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning that prompts students to read chunks of text, summarize the main ideas, and make connections to their written responses to the painting. Students first discuss this content with their partners and later have the opportunity to share any new insights with other classmates before moving to the next short segment. With this approach, students are not reading the textbook simply to learn content-they're reading to construct meaning around the questions that they found important as they initially attempted to understand the painting.

In another lesson from the same unit, I use a variety of sources in addition to the textbook to help students draw conclusions about the reign of Elizabeth I of England. The lesson is framed around her Armada Portrait, which generates many interesting questions from students: Why are there two different views out the windows? Why is her hand on the globe? Does the crown that's set on the table in the background symbolize anything?

For this lesson, students travel around the classroom to three centers, each of which includes a source that provides some context for the painting: a brief biography of Elizabeth I, the text of her speech to her troops concerning the Spanish Armada, and a short video that highlights her accomplishments as queen. Students discuss each source in small groups and then individually write out short reflections that help them process ideas related to their earlier questions.

At the conclusion of both of these lessons, I ask students to revise their freewrites with specific evidence from their learning. Ideally, they'll be able to answer their initial questions, support their inferences, and fill in any knowledge gaps that they identified at the beginning of class. Posing new questions is fine, too, since the inquiry process is cyclical.

The artist Frida Kahlo once said, "I paint flowers so they will not die." Building on that idea, art allows students to visually access historical content that might otherwise seem foreign or irrelevant. Think about one of your upcoming lessons and how a work of art might serve as an entry point. You will be amazed by the questions your students develop and the deep learning that happens as a result.

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There's good news for all the New York City-based e-bookworms out there. The New York Public Library has an app that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to "borrow" any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection.

It's called SimplyE and will allow you to read books on your phone, but beware, there might be a wait list for some popular titles, including the Game of Thrones series. (Check out the Harry Potter books, quick!)

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To gain access, NYPL'sfree e-reader app, SimplyE, can be downloaded for iPhoneor Android.

There isa limit of three books that you can borrow because there has been a surge in the app's usage now that we're all at home, according to the library.

You can also search the library's collection of 800,000 digitized items, including historic prints, photographs, maps, and manuscripts and check out Mango Languagesand Career Cruising with your New York City library card.

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Exploring the world is something that's always been a bit of a luxury for those who can afford to travel, but technology is changing that. With VR and 360-degree videos, you can now immerse yourself in virtual environments that give you a real sense of what a place is like, without actually being there. Google has been taking advantage of things like VR field trips and virtual reality to transport students to distant lands, but today it's releasing a way to explore scenic wonders closer to home: the U.S. National Parks.

The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks is a new Google Arts & Culture exhibit and interactive documentary, timed to launch in celebration of this month's NPS Centennial.

The exhibit allows you to take 360-degree tours of some of the most remote and beautiful U.S. National Parks. Instead of featuring much-documented vistas like Yosemite or the Grand Canyon, for example, the exhibit instead focuses on a selection of parks you may not have traveled to yet (or may never see), including the Kenai Fjords in Alaska, Hawaiian volcanoes, New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, Utah's Bryce Canyon, and Florida's Dry Tortugas - the latter which was reviewed this month in a New York Times travel piece which called it an "under the radar" national park.

In the video experience, a local ranger will guide you through each park, allowing you to do things like fly over the active volcanoes in Hawaii, snorkel the coral reefs in the Dry Tortugas, or kayak through Alaska's fjords, among other things.

The virtual tours are available both online, in the Google Arts & Culture App on iOS and Android, as well as in the Google Expeditions app for use in the classroom.

Expeditions, available here on Google Play, is Google's virtual reality teaching tool that lets students travel the world with their teacher acting as the guide. The app offers 360 degree and 3D imagery of over 200 places around the world, and allows for a VR experience when used with the Google Cardboard viewer.

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Explore this section and discover useful web resources, some in multiple languages, to help our current and future generations of English language learners succeed. While we continue to check and update these links to other websites, some may have changed since our most recent update.

Search Tip: Many of the resources will appear only in one of the categories below. If your search doesn't yield many entries, try reducing the number of selecting categories.

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Apps are fun and motivating for kids! Let Reading Rockets help you find the very best educational apps that provide practice with essential skills in print awareness, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. We've also included apps for children with dyslexia, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorder that support organization and goal-setting, language and communication, and emotional regulation.

Find more recommendations, from the experts at Common Sense Education: Apps and Websites to Build Literacy Skills: Top Picks.

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Apps that give kids tools for communicating with others, through simple pictures, picture-based stories, and text-to-speech. (Selected especially for children with autism or Aspergers.)

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In an interview from 2002, Jane Goodall gave Ira a lesson in how to speak with chimps. Plus, highlights from the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which celebrate the silly side of science. And, stories that share the research of a few Ig Nobel winners.

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AIR Informs Episode #6: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities During COVID-19
Remote learning requires adjustment for all students, but students with disabilities face additional challenges during the COVID-19 quarantine. In the latest episode of AIR Informs, Allison Gandhi, managing researcher and director of AIR's special education practice area, describes some of these obstacles and shares strategies to help students make the most of this time.

Educating All Learners During the COVID-19 Disaster
The Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is a coalition of organizations committed to resource sharing and community-building that supports the efforts of the education community to meet the needs of students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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31 hands-on field activities to connect art, science, math, and critical thinking, while encouraging students and mentors alike to recognize and record the wonder and beauty in the natural world.

Expanding on the philosophy and methods of my last book, The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, I teamed up with experienced curriculum developer and educator, Emilie Lygren, to develop this unparalleled and comprehensive guide to using nature journaling as a tool to engage young people with the outdoors. This teacher-friendly book combines curriculum plans, practical advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can bring journaling to their students or families. Full-color illustrations and sample journal pages from notable naturalists and novices show how to put each lesson into practice.

Best of all, it encourages the things we need most at this moment: routines and rituals, creative expression, observation and concentration, engagement with nature, and connection with each other (even if from a distance!).

Are green spaces near you closed or inaccessible? Nature journaling can happen anywhere, from a kitchen window to a neighborhood stroll. With the right tools and ways of observing, you can document the bird sitting on a telephone wire, the beans in your pantry, the flower blooming in your neighbor's front yard, the weed pushing through the cracks in the sidewalk, or the vine creeping up the side of your apartment building.

Learn How to:

give students step-by-step strategies for effective nature journaling

manage student groups in the outdoors

encourage participation from all learners

modify instructions to meet your students' needs

teach drawing, math, writing, and scientific thinking

connect journaling to educational standards

incorporate journaling into longer lessons

Can be used with:

5E Instructional Model

Charlotte Mason-Inspired Education

Common Core State Standards

Next Generation Science Standards

Waldorf Education, Forest Schools, Outdoor Education, and more

A great way to get started is to watch this video workshop from a class I gave on how to teach Nature Journaling.

Free download! You can download the book today. If you like the book, consider also buying the full version and making a donation to directly support Heyday, our amazing non-profit publisher. You may download the book for use in your home, classroom or at your institution. You may not reproduce any part of the book for sale.

Praise for How to Teach Nature Journaling

"From the beginning of time, we have been connected to nature, but for the first time in history, that connection threatens to be broken for most of an entire generation and perhaps generations to come. In this book and this work, I find hope. Laws and Lygren have created a powerful and practical resource for teachers to help children and adults discover, explore, love, and protect the natural world around them. Nature is magic, and everyone needs it."

-Robert Bateman, artist, naturalist, and founder of the Bateman Foundation

"Here is a natural way for parents and teachers to integrate the beauty and mystery of nature into the lives of children. The book itself is a work of art."

-Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods

"This book beautifully demonstrates how nature journaling is a valuable, multidimensional approach to science. Through this work, students build neural pathways that enable different brain regions to communicate with each other, resulting in more flexible thinking and creative problem-solving in all areas of life. This approach to nature journaling also offers students an excellent way to learn and practice a growth mindset through nature and science."

-Jo Boaler, Professor of Education and Equity, Stanford University; founder and faculty director of youcubed.org; author of Mathematical Mindsets and Limitless Mind

"The writing, the illustrations, the demonstration of an intentional, informative, and wonderfully educational approach to nature journal writing-it's all here. From field activities with clear examples to an inquiry-based approach to learning, this book is a gem for educators, first-time journalers, and for the experienced naturalist as well. It's art, it's writing, it's education, it's science, naturally so."

-José González, Founder of Latino Outdoors

"Engaging students in learning about nature is a compelling need in these turbulent times. Just as important is communicating clearly, precisely, and truthfully. Naturalists and educators John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren help teachers achieve these goals with How to Teach Nature Journaling. This is a wonderful response to educators' request for meaningful ways to implement contemporary standards. The book is useful, full of activities, and manageable for classroom teachers."

-Rodger W. Bybee, Executive Director, BSCS Science Learning (Retired)

"Imagine if every teacher taught nature journaling, every student spent enough time outside to fill a journal each year, and our kids were becoming writers, artists, and scientists all at once. I'd send my kid to that school. Thanks to Emilie Lygren and Jack Laws, we now have the vision and the tools to make this our reality."

-Craig Strang, Associate Director, Lawrence Hall of Science

"Nature journaling is the single most valuable tool and skill a teacher can possess and use to move the Next Generation Science Standards and environmental literacy forward in their school. You need to do this!"

-Rob Wade, Science & Outdoor Education Coordinator, Plumas Unified School District/Plumas County of Education

About the Authors

John Muir Laws is an award-winning scientist, educator, artist, and author of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling and The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, among other titles. For a wealth of nature journaling resources, visit johnmuirlaws.com.

Facilitator, author, educator, and poet Emilie Lygren has co-written dozens of outdoor science publications with the award-winning BEETLES Project and has published poems in a range of literary journals.

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We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature. Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children's books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking a balance between entertainment and instruction. However, that line seems to move closer to one pole or another depending on the prevailing cultural sentiments of the time. And the very fact that children's books were hardly published at all before the early 18th century tells us a lot about when and how modern ideas of childhood as a separate category of existence began.

"By the end of the 18th century," writes Newcastle University professor M.O. Grenby, "children's literature was a flourishing, separate and secure part of the publishing industry in Britain." The trend accelerated rapidly and has never ceased- children's and young adult books now drive sales in publishing (with 80% of YA books bought by grown-ups for themselves).

Grenby notes that "the reasons for this sudden rise of children's literature" and its rapid expansion into a booming market by the early 1800s "have never been fully explained." We are free to speculate about the social and pedagogical winds that pushed this historical change.

Or we might do so, at least, by examining the children's literature of the Victorian era, perhaps the most innovative and diverse period for children's literature thus far by the standards of the time. And we can do so most thoroughly by surveying the thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles at the University of Florida's Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature. Their digitized collection currently holds over 6,000 books free to read online from cover to cover, allowing you to get a sense of what adults in Britain and the U.S. wanted children to know and believe.

Several genres flourished at the time: religious instruction, naturally, but also language and spelling books, fairy tales, codes of conduct, and, especially, adventure stories-pre-Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew examples of what we would call young adult fiction, these published principally for boys. Adventure stories offered a (very colonialist) view of the wide world; in series like the Boston-published and English books like Afloat with Nelson, both from the 1890s, fact mingled with fiction, natural history and science with battle and travel accounts. But there is another distinctive strain in the children's literature of the time, one which to us-but not necessarily to the Victorians-would seem contrary to the imperialist young adult novel.

For most Victorian students and readers, poetry was a daily part of life, and it was a central instructional and storytelling form in children's lit. The A.L.O.E.'s Bible Picture Book from 1871, above, presents "Stories from the Life of Our Lord in Verse," written "simply for the Lord's lambs, rhymes more readily than prose attracting the attention of children, and fastening themselves on their memories." Children and adults regularly memorized poetry, after all. Yet after the explosion in children's publishing the former readers were often given inferior examples of it. The author of the Bible Picture Book admits as much, begging the indulgence of older readers in the preface for "defects in my work," given that "the verses were made for the pictures, not the pictures for the verses."

This is not an author, or perhaps a type of literature, one might suspect, that thinks highly of children's aesthetic sensibilities. We find precisely the opposite to be the case in the wonderful Elfin Rhymes from 1900, written by the mysterious "Norman" with "40 drawings by Carton Moorepark." Whoever "Norman" may be (or why his one-word name appears in quotation marks), he gives his readers poems that might be mistaken at first glance for unpublished Christina Rossetti verses; and Mr. Moorepark's illustrations rival those of the finest book illustrators of the time, presaging the high quality of Caldecott Medal-winning books of later decades. Elfin Rhymes seems like a rare oddity, likely published in a small print run; the care and attention of its layout and design shows a very high opinion of its readers' imaginative capabilities.

This title is representative of an emerging genre of late Victorian children's literature, which still tended on the whole, as it does now, to fall into the trite and formulaic. Elfin Rhymes sits astride the fantasy boom at the turn of the century, heralded by hugely popular books like Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz series and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. These, the Harry Potter s of their day, made millions of young people passionate readers of modern fairy tales, representing a slide even further away from the once quite narrow, "remorselessly instructional... or deeply pious" categories available in early writing for children, as Grenby points out.

Where the boundaries for kids' literature had once been narrowly fixed by Latin grammar books and Pilgrim's Progress, by the end of the 19th century, the influence of science fiction like Jules Verne's, and of popular supernatural tales and poems, prepared the ground for comic books, YA dystopias, magician fiction, and dozens of other children's literature genres we now take for granted, or-in increasingly large numbers-we buy to read for ourselves. Enter the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature here, where you can browse several categories, search for subjects, authors, titles, etc, see full-screen, zoomable images of book covers, download XML versions, and read all of the over 6,000 books in the collection with comfortable reader views. Find more classics in our collection, 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices.
Related Content: The First Children's Picture Book, 1658's Orbis Sensualium Pictus The Anti-Slavery Alphabet: 1846 Book Teaches Kids the ABCs of Slavery's Evils The International Children's Digital Library Offers Free eBooks for Kids in Over 40 Languages is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at @jdmagness

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Looking for ways to make your math learning a little more interesting? Grab a few decks of playing cards and introduce some of these math card games to your class. Your students will have fun in spades!

1. Try for a total of 10.

Play this math card game alone or as a team. Lay out 20 cards on the table (leave out face cards or change them to equal 0, while aces equal 1). Kids remove sets of cards that add up to 10, ultimately trying to remove all the cards from the table. It's harder than you think!

Learn more: The First Grader Roundup

2. Declare a fraction war.

War is one of the original math card games, but this version adds a fraction aspect. Students deal two cards, a numerator and denominator, then determine whose fraction is the largest. The winner keeps all four cards, and play continues until the cards are gone. ( Click here for more fun and free fraction games.)

Learn more: Mrs. Weigand's Mathematics Resources

3. Learn numbers with card bingo.

Remove the face cards and have each student lay out a 4 x 4 playing "board" of cards. Remaining cards (or another deck) are placed face down, and a caller flips over a card. Any player who has that number on their board turns the card face down. Play continues until one player has a row flipped over horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and calls "Bingo!"

Learn more: Top Notch Teaching

4. Find a way to make 10 (or 15, or 20 ... )

One of the terrific things about math card games is that many of them can be customized for various concepts and skill levels. The original goal of this game was to look at the cards you're dealt to find ones that add up to 10, but it can be changed to 15, 20, or any number you choose. You can also add to the difficulty by allowing addition and subtraction (for example, you could use 8+4=12 or 12-2=10). Get the rules and free printable mats at the link below.

Learn more: Mama.Papa.Bubba

5. Practice number sequencing with builder's paradise.

Simple math card games can help kids learn how to put numbers in order. To play builder's paradise, discard the face cards and lay out the 4 sevens in a deck side by side. In each round, players work to add the next higher or lower number in each suit, trying to be the first to get rid of all their cards. Get the full how-to at the link below.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

6. Do some basic fast facts practice.

Give your flash cards a rest and practice facts with math card games instead. Simply lay down two cards from the deck (remove the face cards first) and add, subtract, or multiply them. Kids can work on this alone, or you can make it a contest to see who can call out the correct answer first.

Learn more: Top Notch Teaching

7. Play pyramid solitaire alone or in teams.

Some versions of solitaire are really just sneaky math card games, and pyramid is one of them. Try to find cards that add up to 10 as you clear your pyramid row by row. Learn how to play at the link below.

Learn more: Multiplication.com

8. Go fishing for pairs that make 10.

Your students probably already know how to play Go Fish, but in this version, they're fishing for pairs that add up to 10. Have them ask: "I have a 2. Do you have an 8 to make 10?" Change aces to 1 for this game and leave face cards out entirely.

Learn more: Mrs. Weigand's Mathematics Resources

9. Challenge them to beat the teacher.

Practice place value by drawing cards and trying to build the largest number possible. Kids play against the teacher to see who wins! Get the rules at the link below. ( Find more fun place value activities here.)

Learn more: Relief Teaching Ideas

10. Use Close Call to practice two-digit addition or subtraction.

The best math card games are simple at heart. To play Close Call, each player deals themselves four cards then determines how to arrange them so they make two two-digit numbers that add up close to 100 without going over. For a subtraction version, work to get as close to zero as possible. Learn how to play at the link.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

11. Use order of operations to get to 24.

Math card games aren't just for little kids; even adults will find this one a bit tricky. Each player is dealt four cards, then uses the order-of-operations rules to try to make a number as close to 24 as possible. Simple but challenging!

Learn more: Learn With Math Games

12. Let card color indicate negative or positive.

In this game, red cards are negative integers while black cards are positive. Students attempt to play pairs of cards that total 6 or -6. You can change the goal number as needed.

Learn more: Filing the Frame With Learning

13. Take a trip around the card spiral to practice math facts.

You'll need a pair of dice for this math card game. Lay cards out randomly in a spiral formation as shown, and set a marker for each player on the center card. Player one rolls the dice then moves their piece that number of spaces shown. They then must multiply (or add or subtract, depending on preferences) the card number by the number on the dice. If they get the answer correct, they stay where they are. If not, they return to their original card. Play continues until one player reaches the end.

14. Be the fastest in the race to pi.

In this game, kids work to lay out the digits of pi in order. It's a simple draw-and-play game, but will help familiarize students with this important number. You can write out the digits first or see who knows them from memory. Find out how to play at the link below.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

15. Take a gamble with triple-digit dare.

Each player gets three cards and privately determines the highest three-digit number they can make (you can use decimals or not, depending on age). Then, each player has a turn to stick with the cards they have, swap with one from the deck, or steal one of the other player's. All players then lay down their best number to see who wins. See more at the link below.

Learn more: Math Coach's Corner

16. Try reading minds to figure out the correct numbers.

Two students draw a card from the deck without looking and hold it up to their forehead facing out. A third student mentally multiplies the numbers and gives them the product. The students then must figure out what number each is holding. You can do this with addition and subtraction too. You'll find this game along with dozens of other math card games in the free printable book at the link below.
If you like these math card games, check out this collection of dice games that teachers and students will love. Teachers know that pretty much anything can be used for learning. Here are 13 classroom math hacks you're going to want to try next.

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There is no greater mission for educators than ensuring all students are successful, joyful readers. In recent months and years, the science of reading is finally getting the attention it deserves. Schools across the U.S. are having serious conversations about how to align early reading instruction to the large body of evidence about reading-the most studied aspect of human learning.

To examine the "why," "what," and "how" of this important topic, watch the three parts of The Science of Reading webinar series -featuring Laura Stewart-on demand.

PART 2: What Works in Early
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Nikon has made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free until the end of April.

Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the Nikon School can be streamed for free. The classes are normally priced anywhere between $15 to $50 each.

Each class is taught by a professional photographer and provides in-depth lessons to help you get better at taking photos. Some courses cover Nikon-specific products, but many of them teach you the fundamentals of photography, such as a course that teaches you how to photograph your children or pets or the basics of making a music video. So even if you don't own a Nikon camera, many of these classes might still be worth a watch.

If you're interested in streaming the courses, you can do so by going to Nikon's official website. You will need to sign up by entering your name and email address before you can view the classes, but you can opt out of receiving marketing emails.

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National Library Service (NLS) is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, delivered by postage-free mail or instantly downloadable.

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TacTilesApp is an Engaging, Highly Customizable, Orton Gillingham inspired, tool that will enhance ANY Spelling, Phonics or Reading program !

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Identification and Assessment of Dyslexia Online
June 22 - 23 or July 9 - 10
This online interactive course covers universal screening tools for dyslexia, testing and assessment of students with characteristics of dyslexia, and an overview of appropriate interventions at the school level.

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Identification and Assessment of Dyslexia Online June 22 - 23 or July 9 - 10 This online interactive course covers universal screening tools for dyslexia, testing and assessment of students with characteristics of dyslexia, and an overview of appropriate interventions at the school level.

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A child-friendly curriculum search engine, perfect for classroom or home research. Every result is relevant and readable.

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Physical Education and Health Education-Shape America

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The leading website for health education and PE teachers. SHAPE America sets the standards and practices that define highly effective health and physical education.

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Climate Kids is produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at

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Engaging keynote presentations, hands-on professional development workshops for teachers, STEM conferences and summer institutes