Blog Challenge: Day 13 Favorite Book....

Blog Challenge: Tell about a favorite book to share or teach. Provide at least one example of an extension or cross curricular lesson.

I am going to take creative liberty with today's blog challenge by sharing some online sites to access electronic books...

The first one I learned about from one of our Pinnacle leading Media Specialist. It is called MackinVia. The site is an eResouce Management system that provides access to eBooks and educational databases. One of my schools signed up for the free account and teachers now have access to 37 free books. It allows you to filter your books according to AR level or even Fountas and Pinnell. You can also create groups such as a classroom group where you save titles for those students. The system works across all platforms. Check it out.

The next site has been around for quite a while, but it is a great resource for online books. It is by the Screen Actors' Guild and is called Storyline Online. You can search their available books by title, author, and reader. All readers are actors and are members of the Screen Actors' Guild. You can pause and discuss the reading at anytime and if viewing on an IWB, you can highlight particular text.

Our county public library provides free access to Tumblebooks.
Tumblebooks provide non-fiction as well as fiction text for students. They have created this ebooks, by taking existing books and adding multimedia pieces that becomes a book that you can read or have read to you. Tumblebooks include videos and games as well.