The International Reading Association has crafted these Choices Reading Lists for librarians, teachers, students, and anyone else with a passion for reading. There are three sets: Children’s Choices, Young Adults' Choices, and Teachers' Choices. Each list is fully annotated with additional information such as fact sheets, information on the texts selected, and some information about the criteria...

Elementary School educators, art educators, language arts educators, and English Language Learner (ELL) educators alike may be interested in this collection of four lesson plans related to the intersections of art and language. Each lesson plan centers on a different work of art from the Getty's collections. For example, the lesson Tactile Poem-Forest Textures invites young learners to explore...

For those still mourning the loss of Google Reader, Feedly might be a good place to rebuild. Start with a particular blog or URL you would like to follow, or explore one of the suggested topics. The smooth, easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to browse the headlines or delve more deeply into particular stories of interest. Feedly is compatible with all operating systems.

The young scientist Victor Frankenstein created his peculiar Creature in an unconventional experiment. Two centuries later, Frankenbook, a collaborative reading experiment, lets readers interact in unusual ways with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein, which explores the moral implications of science and technology. Visitors to this website can scroll through Shelley's original 1818...

From the National Center for Learning Disabilities comes Get Ready to Read!, a wonderful collection of free resources "designed to support educators, parents, and young children in the development of early literacy skills in the years before kindergarten." Launched in 1999, Get Ready to Read! offers parents and educators numerous resources intended for all young children, such as online early...

Goodreads is not only a fine place to find your next "good read," but also a great way to keep track of books you've enjoyed. Visitors can log in to create their own lists of books, along with annotations, comments, and ratings. Additionally, visitors can search and browse other readers' profiles, take literary quizzes, and look over hundreds of book lists. Author pages collect writers'...

The advantage of Instapaper, one of a number of read-later solutions currently available on the market, is that it is designed to be read. The visual field is streamlined and text-based. There are no frills, ads, or distractions. So, for readers who want a system to store articles for later reading, and who don't want the complications of some of the other read-later options, Instapaper is a good...

The International Literacy Association publishes three journals: Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Reading Research Quarterly, and The Reading Teacher. On this website, literacy researchers and instructors can access a number of free resources created by these journals. These resources include a sample issue of each journal. As of this write-up, all sample issues are from the year 2017. In...

Students and scholars of literature, cultural studies, or studies of the Latino experience will want to check out the Latino Book Review, an annual digital and print magazine featuring book reviews, literary news, essays, interviews, and research databases. Founded in 2016 by Gerald Aguilar Padilla, the mission of the Latino Book Review is to "create quality content and make the work of Latinx...

NEA Big Read is a program from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Arts Midwest that encourages communities across the United States to read and discuss a wide range of books. Each year, grants are awarded to 75 community reading programs to support book clubs and other reading initiatives. Discussion guides are also provided for selected Big Read books that "reflect many different...