eText Resources





Making Documents Speak

Natural Reader
Have all of your electronic documents read out loud. With Read Naturally, you use the “Miniboard” to read right on the Internet or in any other document. Natural Readers comes with several voices.

Read Please
Read Please is another free text to speech program. Cut and paste any document into the Read Please window and you can turn your text into talking text. Read Please provides a few voice options, adjustable font size and highlights the words while it reads.

Click N Speak
Read websites out loud in Mozilla's Firefox with this free download.


Reading Help

Vocabulary Support: On-line pop-up Dictionary
Download this tool to check definitions, find related words and images related to the word. Works only when connected to the internet.

Babel Fish Translation
Can be used to translate small amounts of text or websites. Some caution should be used as it often overlooks the nuances of language translation.


On line Magazines and Newspapers

Scholastic News

National Geographic Kids Magazine

Sports Illustrated for Kids

Time

People

New York Times

Detroit Free Press

Detroit News


Audio and Video Supports for Text

Librivox


Learn Out Loud


Lit2Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.


RocketBooks
Rocketbooks are video study guides that provide summaries and detailed analyses of literary works.