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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