Reading

=Reading Tools=

http://www.shelfari.com

An online bookshelf that makes social cataloging possible - like Facebook, for books!

Examples
Classroom Example:@http://msyorksclass.com/bookshelf/ Group Example: @http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10974/about Library Examples:
 * @http://www.shelfari.com/o1514431834
 * @http://www.shelfari.com/o1517882900
 * @http://www.shelfari.com/groups/34755/

http://www.60secondrecap.com/

"The future of the book is the blurb" - Marshal McLuhan

Great works of literature boiled down to a sixty-second video - short, witty, designed to engage your students! After you watch a few, have your students try to make their own...it's harder than you might think!

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

MP3 Audiobooks of the classics - free to download and listen to on the go! Also provides the text to view as you listen.

Find over 200 audiobooks on iTunes

== http://librivox.org/

Public Domain books read aloud by volunteers.

Find the podcast on iTunes.

@http://www.storylineonline.net

Be read to by members of the Screen Actors Guild!

@http://storynory.com/

Free audio stories for little ones.

Twitterature Twitter + Literature = Twitterature

Teach students to practice summary and brevity - say it in 140 characters!

Read more about it: @http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/blogs/what-twitterature-chat-penguin-editors

Examples: @http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/huffpost-twitterature-con_n_333974.html

http://booktrailersforall.com/

Don't have time to create your own book trailers to "advertise" to your students? Find one already created! Have you students create their own to contribute to the repository.

More book trailers: http://naomibates.blogspot.com/