Digital Text & eBook Resources

Educational technology form Kurzweil Education unlocks learning resources and materials enabling struggling learners to engage with content that otherwise would be inaccessible. They can interact freely and fully with text, to comprehend, analyze, apply new knowledge, and complete work with fewer mistakes.

Using a centralized content management system, Kurzweil 3000 allows learns to access materials anywhere there is an internet connection. The Kurzweil 3000 library comes stocked with 1,800 free classics and new files can be uploaded with the click of a button. Did we mention that there is no file storage limit. Login to www.kurzweil3000.com to check out the cloud library.

If you're looking to expand your library, start with these sources for eBooks:

AccessText Help college students with disabilities succeed by getting their textbooks in a digital, format. Cost: Basic subscriptions are free.
Bookshare Digital books and periodicals for individuals and organization that serve individuals with documented visual impairments, learning disabilities or physical disabilities. Offers over 300,000 titles for qualified students. Cost: Free for all qualified U.S. students
The Children's Literature Web Guide from Univ of Calgary Guide for multiple sites offering digital books for children and young adults. This is a great site for identifying new or most popular books through a compiled books awards list. No Cost to Browse.
CK-12 CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit that creates and aggregates high quality curated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) content. Choose from thousands of free, standards-aligned STEM teaching resources including text, audio, and video files. Download files as PDFs, or use the Read the Web tool in Kurzweil 3000. Cost: Free, open-source content and technology tools.
The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia The Internet's premier collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides nearly 200,000 reference entries from credible, published sources like Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia. Cost: Free access.
Feedbooks Discover thousands of public domain books, both fiction and non-fiction, with this e-book retailer. Digital formats include PDF and Kindle. Did you know you can read Kindle files with Kurzweil 3000 Image Reader? Cost: Free for public domain books.
Internet Public Library ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. Search for eBooks by subject, content type, or by age. Cost: Free.
ManyBooks ManyBooks provides many free eBooks available in many languages, and in many file formats including PDF, EPUB, and Plain Text-a total of 19 file formats in all. Cost: Free.
Project Gutenberg Over 46,000 titles available for free. This is a resource that is also searchable from within the Kurzweil 3000 software.
Newsela.com Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. Newsela makes it easy for an entire class to read the same content, but at a level that's just right for each student. Common Core Aligned. Requires a free online subscription.
Readworks.org ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension. Requires a free online subscription.
TarHeelReader.org A collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics.
National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials - PALM Initiative (Purchase Accessible Learning Materials): Launched to ensure that materials used in the classroom are deigned to be useable by all students from the start.
National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials � Acquisition of AEM: Find out about the process of acquiring AIM, including information on sources of AIM, accessible media producers (AMPs), the role of NIMAC in relation to AIM acquisition and distribution, and where to start whether one is a teacher, or district, or LEA employee.
TweenTribune.com Free online educational service offered by the Smithsonian for use by K-12 grade Teachers and students. TTribune consists of daily news sites for kids, tweens, and teens, and includes text, photos, graphics, and audio and/or video materials prepared by the Smithsonian and others about current events, history, art, culture and science. TTribune also includes lessons, instructional and assessment tools, and opportunities for the registered users to communicate with other participants.
Lexile.com Everything you need to know about the Lexile© Framework for Reading in one easy to understand graphic. You can copy and paste text to get the Lexile and it helps to understand why Kurzweil is such an incredible tool when you realize the discrepancy between a student's reading level and the reading level of the textbook!
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Smashwords.com A distributor of independent and self-published e-books, including thousands of free books in PDF, TXT, and other formats. A user can search categories of fiction and nonfiction titles, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry.
Internet Archive A non-profit digital library offering access to millions of free books. Formats include PDF, DAISY, and TXT. DAISY files must be downloaded and extracted before Kurzweil 3000 can open them. Sub-collections include books from American Libraries, Canadian Libraries, the Universal Library, Community Texts, Project Gutenberg, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Children�s Library, and Additional Collections. Browse by title or author, or search by specific fields using Advanced Search.

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