Time For A Book


How:

Take time to read to your kids and with your kids every day. Have your children read to you, to a sibling, to a pet, or to a stuffed animal. Kids can read books, magazines, news, online content, and even grocery lists. Most importantly, take time to talk with your kids about what they are learning about. Help them make connections to themselves, other books, and the world.

  • Living Sky School Division Digital Library Overdrive: Go to your school’s website. Under Library click on the Overdrive icon. Enter user name (firstname.lastname) password is the same as school computer log in. Use search engine to locate titles.

  • Scholastic Learn at Home: Free audio books, videos, and activities to watch and download, updated daily (K-5)

  • Epic Books: Digital library for children 12 and under (35,000 titles, books, videos)

  • National Geographic Young Explorer: Online issues of magazines you can listen to and read along with to enhance non-fiction reading skills

  • CommonLit: Fiction and non-fiction texts for students in Grades 3-12

  • Teaching Kids News: Stories in Arts, Politics, Sports, and even Fake News



Mathology Little Books Grades 1-3 new books added every week. Help children see math in everyday activities and create their own positive math stories.


Audible free instant streaming of stories Audible Stories

Storyline Online is the Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s (SAG-AFTRA) award-winning children’s literacy website. Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.

Check Out: A Bad case of Stripes read by Sean Astin (Sean played Sam in Lord of the Rings)

Storyline Online A Bad Case of Stripes


Scholastic Learn at Home: Free audio books, videos, and activities to watch and download, updated daily(K-5)


Why:

Daily reading enhances students’ literacy skills and helps them understand themselves and the world around them. Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading.