Since I have been working with my son on writing, and it is impossible to separate reading with writing. I have found some great resources of free reading materials for kids.
The first one is Free Kids Books. It offers children’s books for purchase. Some books are free, but all books are available for free in PDF format. You can print out the PDF and put them in binders. The benefit of that is you can have your child draw or write on these pages, and it become the child’s creation too.
Read to Me is a website where kids can listen to books read by the authors. A nice feature is for some books they have lesson plans that provide talking point and activity ideas. It is a great help for parents.
Storyline Online is another site offers free books. It is run by Screen Actors Guild Foundation, all books are read aloud by some very famous actors and actresses. In addition to books, they also offer book related activities, which is always a welcoming feature for the busy parents who have no time to come up fun activity ideas for the kids.
Update: Now I find some more resources, and some are from comments.
Wegivebooks: is another great site for free children’s books. Seems they have a very large selections.
Memetales: not completely free, but when you sign up, you get 15 books for free, and each week you get a new free book. You can read it online, or on your iPhone/iPAD, or Android tablets, including Kindle.
Gutenberg project: it is a site with more than 30,000 free eBooks, either via Kindle or iBook. Although they are not all for kids, but there are a lot kids books, including picture books.
Do you use any online resources for reading? Would mind sharing with everyone?
Game4Learning 
I am going to check out your links. Thanks for sharing them. I have gotten several free reads for both my kids and myself, and many are antiques at this site http://homeschoolcommons.com/
Hi I keep meaning to stop by and thank you for your support. Are you aware of the BBC schools website? http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/ the school where I work uses the Oxford Reading Tree scheme. This link takes you to the Magic Key page. I love the ORT with Biff and Chip. Ask any teenager around here about Biff and Chip and the come over all warm and fuzzy.
thanks for sharing. This is very cool. Although not books, but are reading games.
I also would suggest the Oxford Reading Tree scheme. This is what my son is learning with at school and you can get a lot of the books online! It is also what I first started learning from and I must admit I did get a bit excited when I realised that my boy would be reading the same books!
This post and the comments following provided lots of resources. Thank you!
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Wow! These are great resources! Thank you so much for sharing.
Love that Read to Me website. What a great idea.
Tweeted and shared. Great resource. Reading to kids is one of my passions. Start them out reading early and they’ll be a reader for liffe.
Wish I had known about these when I was a kid!
great post… awesome links… thank you for sharing these awsome resources…
Thanks for the links! Starfall.com is free and awesome, too. Lots of short, interactive stories that progress along with your child. My 5 and 7 year old boys love it.
Thanks for checking out my blog. Thanks also for these great suggestions. I look forward to looking into these for my daughter.
These are great resources. Most of our reading has been offline, but can’t wait to try these out! Thanks!
Thank you for liking my article about creative muse and Nick Cave’s interviews at http://www.ceciliayu.com . I totally agree with your ethos about free e-books at any age and try to include free e-books from the gutenberg project in the last 2 years in my blog. Good one, well done you!
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I have so little “parental” bones in my body…possibly because I need parenting regularly from my own artistic tantrums…But I love what game4learning.com is doing with promoting free kids e-books. So wanted to show my support! So if you popped out one, maybe you can start worrying more about what you put in “its” brains…because I can’t stand people that decide to POP ONE OUT and then LEAVE IT to go FERAL and ILLITERATE! Then you might as well be pro-choice with stop messing up someone’s life!
Yes, it is your duty to read with your kids, here are FREE e-books to do it! The only people who don’t do that are evil morons like my ex neighbor, the feral, loser meth-lab dealer arsehole and my ex-landlord his best friend and best customer! Seriously! Is this the type of parent you want to be? 🙂 (No guilt trips or anything…but if it works….stuff if I care what you think! haha! READ WITH YOUR FREAKING KIDS SO THEY DON’T INFLICT THAT ILLITERACY TO ANNOY CECILIA! xxoo Thank you!)
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“Read to Me” sounds really sweet. I like that idea. I would do that myself, but my book is aimed at older kids. Little children would probably have nightmares after hearing me read it to them. 😦
By the way, I love your blog. What you’re doing is great! And thank you for visiting mine!
Thank you so much for checking out my blog at evmamas.wordpress.com! I really enjoyed reading your blog. Very interesting.
Thanks for these great online resources. I’ll be sure to check them out soon.
AppsGoneFree iOS app often features free iPad books for kids as well as some software
I have been using it. it is great. Thanks for sharing!
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Something to check out! Great when you kids grow out of books almost as fast as they grow out of their shoes!
Love this post and the idea of printing out the PDFs and putting them in binders so they can color\write on them. I will try this tomorrow with my grandson.
Ii am just starting to look for downloadable audio books for my preschooler. She is hard of hearing, so with headphones it will be good audio training for her. Any suggestions??
We use tumblebooks. I’m not sure if it free for everyone, but we got the link from my kids’ homeschool and they love it. There are hundreds of audio books with pictures for all age groups.
We get that from school too. I think you need a login to access that.
I love this I always feel like my generation don’t read enough so it’s great to see that you making a difference.
Thanks for sharing these ideas. As I run a tutoring business, I am always looking for great new ideas!
FYI kindergarten.com is offering some free apps for Autism Awareness month. They have all kinds of flash cards and games.
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Three great websites for free books and stories.
Oh I’d never heard of free kids books, and now I fear I’m going to be addicted!!! Brilliant post thank you!
Just wanted to thank you for the like of my post “The Most Ridiculous Crayola Crayons” at my Why Daddy Drinks blog at rexcrum.wordpress.com. Always appreciate any likes and shares. All the best to you, Rex
I must say I never knew such material was available online. Thanks for bringing this to my notice.
Thank you so much for stopping by my little ol’ blog. I am so glad you did because now I get to see your awesome posts. My oldest is also struggling with writing. Destiny.
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YAY! Kids Books!
Thanks for this!
Wanted to say thanks for your support and that your blog is so informative and helpful!
These are great! I love the idea of printing them and letting my daughter color on the pages. She would love that. Another good resource to get books is the Dolly Parton Book Club https://imaginationlibrary.com/ They will send you child a free book every month (up to five years old.)
I am actually a reader for Screen Actors Guild. I’m not a well known actress so I don’t do Storyline online but I do volunteer through them every week and read at a local elementary school. The kids love it! Thanks for visiting my blog
I have sweet experience with “Storyline Online”. There I found some excellent books for my son that he is enjoying yet.
Google books is a great thing for kids book reports and study sessions. I recommend that and project Gutenburg to my students. Maybe these are too old for the kids your aiming at but it’s a great way to interest kids in reading, find a book they are interested in and read it together 😀 I hated reading when I was a kid, and refused to do it, until a Teacher asked ME why… I replied I didn’t like what they wanted me to read (I knew how to read, but just didn’t do it) I went to the library, and got a book on ww1, and tanks etc. and took to it like a duck to water…. 😀 Loving the blog, most interesting.
Hi iGamemom,
I am so glad you’re back! I remember saving your blog and going back to it, only to find that you were gone! Thank you for sharing these wonderful resources with us! Do you know any good resources for apps or other educational tools for autistic kids?
Thank you for the like on my blog.
It’s so nice to know you have things for kids to do & use! It is a great help to others & kids to have you looking out for them & getting help from others too.
I was also going to recommend starfall.com; this is a great resource for younger children beginning to understand sound/symbol relationships. It teaches spelling patterns within words, provides short interactive activities, and then follows up with a short online story. Great for beginner readers, or those lacking the understanding of sound/symbol rules.
we love the books on http://oxfordowl.co.uk. my 5-year old son really liked the project X series, which I learned later was especially created to encourage boys to read. really cool.
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