This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.

Describes a lesson plan where learners are introduced to a live fish caught locally. After discussion of its characteristics, and having students draw and label it, they listen to a storybook about fishing, and are introduced to a set of...

This animation, in a storybook format, tells the various types of clouds (stratus, cirrus, nimbus) through a picture poem.

This animation outlines the life of a frog in a storybook format through a poem. The poem covers the stages in the life of a frog.

This animation told in a storybook format explores the food cycle generated by the owl. It begins with the owl's consumption of food, then the food provided other animals through that consumption and so on.

Digital storybook, with flippable pages, about some of the nice things mothers do for their children.

This animation discusses the food chain in a storybook format. The chain is described as a cycle and both herbivores and carnivores are discussed.

This animation, in a storybook format, discusses water and the water cycle.

Can Mikolay and Julia save the fairies' forest using their magic? Read this storybook to see what happens and what you can do for the earth.

Early readers can practice their counting skills with this short online storybook based on the hundredth day of school.

This online storybook is for very early readers; the child has the option to click on a word they don't know to have it read to them. A list of words in the story are provided.

A short online storybook about Scott Joplin for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.

A short online storybook about Beethoven for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.

An online storybook based on Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The reading level is at about Grade 2.

A short online storybook about Mozart for early readers. The vocabulary is posted below the book.

This animation in storybook format tells the story of Tules Pond and also gets into pond and lake ecosystem information.

This animation, in a storybook format, discusses a wide variety of prehistoric animals from the mammoth to the mastodon.

At this site listen to a sample of a tale of Norway retold and read by author Aaron Shepherd. Information provided for Reader's Theater as well as extras provided by the author such as play script and posters.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Our Garden by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (c1885), a picture book story about the seasons and the garden.

This resource offers a large database with abstracts that describe numerous children's picture books.

A collection of lists of books for learning concepts in Math, organized by topic and addressing all grade levels. Also includes a section of teacher resource books.

This online story is illustrated and has sound effects. It's a story of a little boy who wants a bicycle but has no money. It is followed by a comprehension quiz, an interactive crossword, and meet the author and illustrator section.

You can read and hear animated stories from the Brothers Grimm on this site. There are also links to games, fun stuff, and a featured story.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Nursery Rhyme Flipchart by Donna Andrews (ELAKSV1 (elements a-d) for Kindergarten). Flipchart focuses on rhythm, rhyming, and interactive links for games that reinforce the standard.