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Free eBooks for Kids

Browse free books for kids and download free eBooks online in a variety of subjects and genres. Choose from over 5,000 free eBooks for kids from Barnes & Noble.

Tips for Reading to Young, School-Age Children

Your child has started school but still needs you to read to him or her at home. Your child will do better in school, and you’ll enjoy the time spent together. Here are helpful tips for reading to and with young children in school, kindergarten through third grade.

ALSC’s 2020 Summer Reading Lists

Titles on the 2020 Summer Reading Lists were compiled and annotated by members of ALSC’s Quicklists Consulting Committee. The lists are full of book titles to keep children engaged in reading throughout the summer. Four Summer Reading book lists are available for Birth-Preschool and grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8.

Summer Learning

Avoid the “summer slide” and keep the spirit of curiosity alive with these informal, anytime learning resources. This collection of videos and activities encourages students in grades PreK-12 to spend the summer asking questions, spinning stories, and exploring all the ways that learning can be fun.

Colorín Colorado

Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade. This webpage also includes some ideas for helping to make the summer educational – and fun!

Family Educator Learning Accelerator (FELA) Toolkit

A Family Educator Learning Accelerator (FELA) Toolkit offers an overview of our family engagement methodology and provides templates to get you started

Springboard Connect

Springboard Connect is a web-app that provides tips, resources, and reminders to support parents as reading coaches to their children. Families can set goals, practice strategies, and track progress.

Parent Guide to Early Reading Skills: Kindergarten to Grade 3

This parent guide of sample ideas was designed to help you grow your child into a strong reader. You don’t have to be a teacher or a reading specialist. But start as early as you can, even before kindergarten begins, and practice often. And don’t hold back from making it fun.

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

Engage students with Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, a PBS KIDS series based on the Ordinary People Change the World books by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos. The show follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina, and their friend Brad as they travel back in time to meet real life historical figures when they were kids.

Use these video clips, teaching tips, and historical figure biosketches to support students’ social-emotional, literacy, and social studies skills.

Book Scavenger Hunt Fiction

You can use this free printable for scavenger hunts over and over again with any books your students are reading. It’s a fun way to encourage deeper reading.

Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt

Using this scavenger hunt created by Scholastic, students can find their next reading book from their bookshelf.