Mansel Wells's List: 3-5 ELA Featured Sites

Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more.

Each text on this list can be accessed in HTML (web version) for online viewing, and can be downloaded as both a MS Reader E-book for the Microsoft Reader and a Palm-readable text for the Palm Reader. Each text on this list can be accessed in HTML (web version) for online viewing, and can be downloaded as both a MS Reader E-book for the Microsoft Reader and a Palm-readable text for the Palm Reader.

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Answers.com is the place where reference information and Q&A content come together to deliver the best answers on the Internet.

It's built upon a combination of two answering styles:

ReferenceAnswers is a one-stop shop that aggregates dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and more, offering millions of topics available for fast-fact lookup as well as deep research.

WikiAnswers is an advanced Q&A platform powered by the collaborative efforts of a global knowledge community... with a wiki-twist.

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Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device.

We carry high quality items: Our books were previously published on paper by bona fide publishers and digitized by us with the help of thousands of volunteers.

All our ebooks can be easily downloaded: Choose between ePub, Mobipocket, HTML and simple text formats.

No fee or registration is required

Text-to-Speech

Thousands of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.

The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.

Free, Online: Classic Stories for Children

Categories of resources:
Authors and Illustrators
Books and Literature
Dolch Word List
Fairy Tales
Intermediate Literature
Listening and Speaking
Poetry
Primary Reading & Language Arts
Rhymes
Writing

This podcast is a unique use of technology. This podcast is an ongoing story involving every grade level and multiple curriculum areas such as language arts, technology, and art. Students in each grade level expand the story by writing a new chapter, designing new artwork, and using technology to bring it all together. To begin, you will want to watch the very first episode and continue from that point to see how the story evolves.

DogEared is a blog ALL about books.

Good books, funny books, adventure books. Books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places... Books about, well, almost EVERYTHING!!

When you read a book and you turn the top edge of a page over to mark your place? Well, that's called a "dog ear!" We want you to mark this Web page just like that...dog ear DogEared, if you will...and come back here often to read real kids' reviews and recommendations. Plus, share your own opinions and create your own reading wish list.

Doing What Works is a website dedicated to assisting teachers in the implementation of effective educational practices. The Doing What Works website contains practice guides developed by the Department’s Institute of Education Sciences that evaluate research on the effectiveness of teaching practices described in the guides. The website also contains examples of possible ways this research may be used, but not necessarily the only ways to implement these teaching practices.

Sources of grants and other attainable funding, rich resources for 21st century skills, professional development opportunities, free and inexpensive finds and help with research and assessment. Additionally this site offers a deep e-newsletter archive — searchable by keywords — with resources not found in the print editions.

Includes curriculum, instruction and assessment resources. Used in Reading First programs.

Since elementary teachers have special circumstances to deal with concerning the use of technology, I thought we could meet here to talk and to share…

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated,
talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:

* Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
* Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
* View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
* Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

You can browse by author or title.
You can also use it in iTunes.