I had no idea that this website existed until I read about it in this month’s Reading Teacher. Photo credit: Samuel Borges Photography, Shutterstock 1. I’ll also share some paid options at the bottom of the post. In today’s post, I’ll share 3 websites with free digital children’s books suitable for primary readers.
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In addition to “hard copies” of books we send home, we can teach parents how to access free books online.
The majority of homes in the United States have an Internet connection, and many families now own smartphones. So how can we help our preschool, Kindergarten, and primary students get 100 books in their homes? It sounds like a huge task, but technology can help.
Moreover, “t is not until the book total in the home reaches around 100 that the impact of subsequent books, although still valuable, begins to taper off” (Mallete and Barone, 2016). This makes a dent, but it’s usually not enough.Ī Reading Teacher article that I read recently, “Unite for Literacy,” cites a study showing that adding 10 books to a home with no books doubles the likelihood that a child will be successful in school. But this is reality for some of the students at my school and hundreds of thousands of other schools around the world.Īs teachers, we can send home printable paper books, encourage families to buy books, and even give books as gifts to our students. Did you know that only 30% of children who come from homes without books are likely to complete the 9th grade(1)?įor some of us (myself included), growing up without books at home seems unimaginable.
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