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Options for Hearing Text


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Simbi
  • Extensive online library of illustrated children's books
  • Free for an individual, paid options for classroom and school use
  • Organized by genre, grade and reading level
  • Options for assigning and tracking student reading, and for monitoring comprehension
  • ​Audio narration available for many titles

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Unite for Literacy
  • Extensive collection of non-fiction illustrated children's books
  • Free with no registration or login required
  • New titles added regularly
  • Audio narration (human voice) available in multiple languages
  • Sign language available for some titles

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Tar Heel Reader
  • Free library of community created simple picture books
  • Limited text, with engaging illustrations
  • Built-in narration, or can be downloaded for alternative off-line text-to-speech
  • Stories work well on iPad 

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Epic
  • ​Large (40,000+) collection of fiction and non-fiction books for children
  • ​Read aloud option available
  • Free for teachers

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Sora
  • Reading app that accesses digital collection of public library in a school's community
  • Can be personalized and managed by teachers, with individual assignments and reading records
  • Available for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, with same reading experience across platforms
  • App can be set by user to optimize reading experience--choice of font, font size, lighting etc.
  • Provides access to audio books and narrated titles.

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Loyal Books
  • Extensive collection of audio books
  • Organized by genre, and searchable by author, title or key word
  • Engaging interface with cover art, description and audio preview for each selection
  • Download as mp3 or iTunes podcast

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LibriVox
  • Collection of over 3,500 audio books, read by volunteers
  • Search by author or title 
  • Download as mp3 or subscribe in iTunes
  • See introductory overview on Youtube

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Lit2Go
  • Audio stories and poems for download, or online listening with accompanying text available
  • Search by author, title, key words, or key words
  • Material categorized by readability (K-12)
  • From Florida Educational Technology Clearninghouse 

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LoudLit.org
  • "Literature for your eyes and ears"
  • Collection of novels, poetry, and short stories available for download or for online listening with accompanying text 
  • Works on iOS devices

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RobertMunch.com
  • Robert Munsch reads his own childrens' stories
  • Listen online, or download as MP3 files

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Storynory
  • Storynory has published free audio story for children every week since November 2005
  • Original stories, fairy tales, unusual tales from around the world, and much more
  • Listen online, or download

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Storyline Online
  • Set of children's stories read aloud by well known actors with accompanying video
  • Related activities available for download

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