Literacy Matters
P.D. OnlineAdolescent LiteratureContent LiteracyTechnologyStudent ActivitiesLesson PlansProgramsLinks Plus

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

VIGNETTES

SUPPORTED eTEXT TYPOLOGY

SOFTWARE/TOOLS

» eTEXT SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS

ARTICLES

RESEARCH




 

 

 

 

 

Supported eText: Environments

Wiki Books
This Wikimedia project provides a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. The collection includes over 25,650 modules in a multitude of textbooks. There are also a community and staff bulletin boards.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Librivox
LibriVox provides free, open source audio books, chapters, and content of books on the Internet. The goal of the project is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
librivox.org/

The Intersect Digital Library
This library of "supported text" books incorporates resources and study strategies designed to help middle and high school students learn more from what they read. The web site includes a collection of special edition stories, documents, and books, lesson plans and activities for teachers, and guidelines for creating supported textbooks.
intersect.uoregon.edu/

Children's Storybooks Online
This site provides free storybooks for adolescent readers. Talking books can also be purchased, which include full narration and individual words spoken when clicked on.
www.magickeys.com/books/index.html

Aesop's Fables
This web site contains over 650 searchable fables including Real Audio narrations and Classical and random images.
www.aesopfables.com/

Frankenstein
The complete electronic text from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. Provided by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, the text includes the entire work, plus letters and speeches.
etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/SheFran.html

Open Text Corporation
Find Open Text products organized by product categories including document management, connectivity, web content management, extensions, imaging, document processing, and more.
www.opentext.com/2/sol-products.htm

Children's Literature Web Guide—Online Children's Stories This online web guide is a great place to find lists of links to online stories, poems, and myths.
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html

The Online Books Page
This site, which is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, provides pointers to over 25,000 free books online. Search by title, author, subject, serial, and new listings. This site also contains the latest news about new online books, prize winners, books in progress, and more.
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Text
This user-friendly database contains over 14,000 "classic" public domain documents from American and English literature as well as western philosophy.
www.infomotions.com/alex/

Tales Selected by the Brothers Grimm
This site provides all of Grimm's fairy tales in one convenient place.
www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/

Early Modern Literary Studies
This refereed journal provides a site containing an extensive list of links to classics, and 15th through 17th century online literature sites.
www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsetxt.html

 

 


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