Books Should Be Free: Free Audio Books from the Public Domain
What it is: Books Should Be Free is a fantastic collection of audio books that students can download and listen to for free from the public domain. Books are easily searchable by genre, keyword, title or author. Books can be downloaded as MP3 files, iPod or iTunes format. Each book includes a description of the book, full text from Project Gutenberg, a Wikipedia link, and the audio download. Students can play a snippet of the audio before deciding to download. The collection is pretty impressive, including my favorite classics.
How to integrate Books Should Be Free into the classroom: Not every child has an extensive collection of books at home, or parents who model a love of reading. Books Should Be Free expands every classroom and home library by giving students access to some of the most loved books of all time. Students can download both the audio and accompanying text for a read along or simply listen to the audio file. Audio books help students build comprehension, fluency and help students develop a love for story. Books Should Be Free is a great way to start a Reading Buddies program at your school with some MP3 players or iPods that can go home with students loaded up with good books.
Tips: Looking for some more ebooks to expand your classroom library? Check these out!
- Story Time for Me
- Digital Book about Energy
- Story Bird
- ePub Bud
- My Hippo Had the Hiccups
- Wizz-e Free e-Books
- Big Universe
- Tumble Books
- Hip2B2
- Study Jams
- Progressive Phonics
- Storybook Web
- Mee Genius
- National Geographic Young Explorer
- Science Storybooks
- Signed Stories
- Inkless Tales
- Story Cove
- Story Place
- UDL Book Builder
- Science Comics
- Awesome Stories
- Audible Kids
- ICDL
- Speakaboos
- Mrs. P’s Magic Library
- Scholastic’s Listen and Read
- Childtopia Tales
- Mighty Books
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Books Should Be Free in your classroom!