#makereadingFUN
Free :
- Google Classroom: OLS Broadcast - read-aloud videos from OLS faculty and staff. We miss you!
- Jefferson County Public Libraries or Birmingham Public Library - browse and checkout eBooks & audio books for the entire family.
- EPIC - access 40,000 titles, learning videos, quizzes and more. Get 1 month free.
- VOOKS. - picture books, beautifully animated and read aloud. Additional activities are included. Households can get one month free (then $4.99/mo) & teachers one year free.
LIVE ONLINE (If it's red just click on it. If it's on Social Media like Instagram or FaceBook (FB) I cannot link directly from here but this should help locate them using names/titles give below.) Draw Every Day with JJK JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA HPL Kids Facebook page (Hoover Public Library) live storytimes! PeteTheCatOfficial via Instagram. Daily virtual storytimes. PETER H. REYNOLDS daily read-aloud via his FB page from author of The Dot among others bestsellers. MAC BARNETT via Instagram live: His humorous “Mac B Kid Spy” & “The Terrible Two” series are popular! I also find his picture books about Circle, Square and Triangle great fun!) DAN GUTMAN via FB: author of My Weird School series, The Genius Files series, and baseball time-travel series (Honus & Me, Satch & Me, ...) OLIVER JEFFERS via FB & Instagram: author/illus of many notable picture books including “Stuck” and “The day the crayons quit” LIST of Virtual Author Activities A LIST from School Library Journal Archived but no longer live: MO WILLEMS lunchtime doodle sessions Author of The Pigeon books, Piggie & Elephant... need I say more? (click the little arrows on the sides of the screen to see different episodes.) OTHER RESOURCES
| ALWAYS AVAILABLE All ages:
Grades PreK - 3rd:
Grades 4th - 8th:
Grades 6th - 8th: Kwame Alexander’s "Bookish" YouTube channel (he interviews JEFF KINNEY on his first episode and many other great authors on other episodes) NOTE: He is an award-winning poet and writer for this age group but 2 of his books are are for ages12+ only: “Solo” and “He Said She Said”) Rick Riordan's links to book extras and online activities (author of Lightning Thief and best-selling mythology-based series.) Steve Sheinkin: author of award-winning suspenseful history books. Plus daily episodes of the new comic he is co-writing with his middle school daughter: Non Fiction Man Expanding the Classics (list of links curated by ALA.) |