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www.nifl.gov/lincs/about/about.html 

This site offers information on adult and family literacy plus literacy kits and other professional resources. 

www.learningladder.org/fccp/front.htm

Teachers will find reading and writing curriculums.  They must sign up to obtain a password but there is no cost. 

www.bartleby.com 

Students can read books online.  The site offers mostly classic works and reference materials. 

www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html 

Anyone can download books from this site.  Over 20,000 titles are available. 

www.gigglepoetry.com 

Kids can learn to read and write poems, enter poetry contests, and learn about the poets.  The site offers activities for teachers, also. 

www.childrenstory.com/tales/index.html 

Parents, teachers, or children can read classic fairy tales from this website.  The site offers an option to have the stories read aloud. 

www.underthesun.cc/Classics 

Students can find information to cite as research but there are no downloads available.   The font on this site can be changed in size or style to accommodate any vision difficulties. 

www.freeology.com/graphicorgs/ 

This site offers tools to help educators teach reading and writing. 

www.readingmadeeasy.com 

Teachers and disability professionals can find demos of reading software and a complete suite of products that address reading, writing, and information transfer needs for individuals with visual, cognitive, and mobility challenges. 

www.infomotions.com/alex/ 

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy that can be downloaded at no charge. 

www.kidpad.org 

Children’s authoring software is offered as a free download for teachers and parents. 

www.mindplay.com

Teachers will find a free reading assessment at this site.  There are also games and demos to download for free. 

sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

This website offers free onscreen access to text of medieval and classical literature through its online library. 

www.dltk-teach.com 

Parents and teachers will find mini-books to create plus activities to incorporate when reading favorite children’s books. 

www.janbrett.com 

This website offers printable literacy activities and classroom helpers including alphabet, math, seasonal, recipes, and calendars. 

 

AMAC - Alternative Media Access Center
The Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC), an initiative of the University System of Georgia, is committed to removing barriers and providing access to knowledge for individuals with physical, sensory, and learning print-related disabilities.

http://uga.edu/amac/

BookShare.org
A new resource providing thousands of accessible digital books to people in the U.S. with print disabilities (low vision, blindness, reading disabilities, and mobility impairments) - a group numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Bookshare.org is a project of the Benetech Initiative, a nonprofit organization. The Benetech team originally developed the Arkenstone scanning and reading systems and through Bookshare.org now enables users of scanning systems to share the books they scan. http://www.bookshare.org 

Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic RFB&D's library contains more than 98,000 titles in a broad variety of subjects, from literature and history to math and the sciences, at all academic levels, from kindergarten through post-graduate and professional.  Chances are, if the book is in your curriculum, it's in our library! http://www.rfbd.org

Questia: "The world's largest online library of books
"Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp 

 

 

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