Updated on March 8, 2017
These sites offer free well-known books of great literature and tools for kids and high school students to analyze literary works. Some offer lesson plans and resources for teachers.
SparkNotes has study guides and practice quizzes for hundreds of well-known works of literature – both books and short stories. The guides are extensive and include practice quizzes. It also includes a section, “No Fear Shakespeare,” which provides side-by-side modern…
Learn more about the authors, illustrators and the story behind the works of literature they write. Many of the links include lesson plans and activity ideas for use with the books.
From site: Just One More Book is a thrice-weekly podcast which promotes and celebrates literacy and great childrens books. Each weekday morning, we take a few minutes out of our morning coffee ritual to discuss one of our many favourite…
From site: The purpose of a booktalk is to “sell” the book. You want to give enough of the plot to interest the listeners but you are not giving a summary of the book. You don’t want to give away…
From site: The 60second Recap wants to make the great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible to today’s teens. Through our 60second Recap video albums, we seek to help teens engage with the best books out there ……
From site: The CCBC has created bibliographies and booklists of recommended books on a wide range of themes and topics. We have organized them into the following categories: Books for Babies, Toddlers, and PreschoolersBooks for Elementary AgeBooks for Middle and…
From site: The Lord of the Flies educational game is about the book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative…
Project Gutenberg has a collection of more than 27,000 free downloadable electronic books, eBooks, in their online catalog. You can search the catalog by author or title, and many titles can be downloaded in mp3 format. Please note that many titles…
From site: In 1999 I launched Shakespeare Online with hopes of providing free, original, and accurate information on Shakespeare to students, teachers, and Shakespeare enthusiasts. Shakespeare Online has been featured in an infomercial for Excite@home’s new Internet service, which aired…
From site: Our online collection of Aesop’s Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and…
From site: A collection of brief recordings of authors & illustrators saying their names. Hello, my name is . . . Have authors and illustrators introduce themselves Learn correct pronunciations of hard-to-pronounce names Reveal stories behind the names
Take your students on a literary adventure to explore the locations in your favorite works of literature. Jerome Burg’s lessons use the trip planning feature Google Earth to help students travel with the characters from a 3-dimensional perspective. The site includes…
From site: This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.