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Explore resources that bring PreK–12 books to life. Discover author interviews, book trailers, discussion questions, activity kits, and more.
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Award Winning Books
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. (LWHS)
Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. (MES)
Awarded annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. (MES & LWHS)
Wisconsin's student choice book award - awarded in four age level categories - Primary, Intermediate, Middle and High. (MES & LWHS)
Awarded to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. (LWHS)
Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. (MES & LWHS)
Presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. (MES & LWHS)
Awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. (MES)
Read Books Online
Epic Books- making books more accessible for kids! Sign-in with class code provided by your teacher/librarian. Teachers - see Mrs. Krueger for help creating your own FREE educator account.
Loving2Read - Loving2Read provides free leveled books for levels A - K.
Raz-Kids - 400+ eBooks that students can listen to, read, and even record themselves reading.
ReadingIQ - ReadingIQ is a comprehensive digital library developed by Age of Learning, the creators of the award-winning ABCmouse Early Learning Academy. ReadingIQ’s vast content is curated by experts to provide readers from 2 to 12 years old access to thousands of books, including original and exclusive titles, childhood classics, and popular titles in a wide range of subjects, topics, and genres—all leveled for easy access to books that will engage, delight, and educate every type of reader.
Unite for Literacy - At Unite for Literacy, we picture a world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures and cultivate a lifelong love of reading. Unite for Literacy has developed the platform, publishing tools, and systems-based strategies that support our public and private sector partners to change the literacy landscape of their communities and optimize the future for all their young children. Our projects build home libraries and support families to develop a daily habit of reading, both of which are key factors in growing lifelong readers. To accomplish our vision, the Unite for Literacy team brings together expertise from the fields of literacy education, business innovation, strategic planning, and early childhood development.
Vooks - Watch animated books online or on your favorite devices. Streaming service designed for ages 2-8. Free Trial!
Wilbooks - Read online books for free for levels A to M.
YouTube Read Aloud Book Videos
School District of Manawa - Storytime Sunday
Weekly stories read by the staff, students and community members of the School District of Manawa.
Storyline Online features celebrities reading storybooks along with animations created from the book illustrations.
This is a playlist with dozens of children’s book being read by the authors, provided by KidLit TV.
Although the Puffin channel includes a wide range of book-related videos, they also have quite a few stories being read by authors or celebrities.
Story Time for children comes from a collaboration of Toddler Fun Learning and Ladybird books, and offers a wide collection of children’s books with creative sound effects, zooming, and panning.
The narrator for these books uses puppets and lots of great voices when reading, and adds many comments and questions during the story to dig deeper.
For a fun twist, this playlist contains children’s books that are sung rather than being read. For each book the text of the book is sung as a song to an original tune.
Join them for story time and read along with some of your favorite books!
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension
Provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
Non-fiction articles for use in education. Adaptable to student needs based on reading level, interest and more.
Reading Record Resources
Biblionasium is a fun and engaging reading community that will help you connect to your students outside of the classroom. You can setup your favorite books and recommended lists on virtual bookshelves that will be available to your students at all times. Students can email you their reading logs instead of handing them in on paper; you can set up fun challenges and rewards that will help encourage your students to keep reading, and you can set up a reading list that the students won’t lose. It brings children together and gives them a chance to easily recommend books to each other.
Book Taco is an interactive reading management program where student effort is rewarded and celebrated. Affordable, highly engaging alternative to Accelerated Reader®, in Book Taco, teachers can monitor, assess, and motivate student reading.
Whooo's Reading is a higher-level thinking alternative to multiple choice. Get your students writing about what they read. Re-associate reading with joy.
Book Leveling Resources
Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Books
The official source for books leveled by Fountas and Pinnell. Contains 60,633 books submitted by over 300 publishers.
Find the Guided Reading level, Lexile level, DRA level or Grade Level Equivalent for a wide variety of titles.
Book vendor with collections created based upon Guided Reading level.
Book vendor used by library to purchase books. Use Google login to create an account and find reading level information for various titles.