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35 Resources for Read Across America Day

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There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface. International Library Internet Archive — Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts.

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Summer Reading Online

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Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface.

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How to Keep Learning Fresh Over the Summer

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To prevent this, teachers try approaches such as summer book reports, but students complain they intrude on their summer time. Reading Any age: Read ebooks. These aren’t print–these are digital, on an iPad, a desktop, or a mobile device. These have the advantage of sounding hip and as such, appeal to digital natives.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

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Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. RAZ Kids includes hundreds of K-5 interactive, animated leveled ebooks spanning twenty-seven levels of reading skill. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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End of Year Activities

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If you’re looking for meaningful lessons to wrap up your school year, here are my top picks: Digital Passport. Cool book reports. Applied Digital Skills. Digital Citizenship review. Write an Ebook. Practice keyboarding. Dig into cyberbullying. 10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year. It’s the end of school.

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12 Websites for Digital Books Summer Reading

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Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. RAZ Kids includes hundreds of K-5 interactive, animated leveled ebooks spanning twenty-seven levels of reading skill. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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The Case for PDFs in Class Revisited

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Let me know if this fits your experiences: The biggest reason teachers report for NOT liking internet-based cloud accounts has nothing to do with money, security, or privacy. Unlike print books and many ebooks, PDFs can be marked up and then erased at the end of the school year. It’s that they aren’t inclusive enough.

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