While nothing can compare to relaxing on your sofa with a physical book, reading books online actually has many advantages:
Try before you buy
Instead of buying the actual books, reading them online offers you the chance to see if your kids will like them. If the book intrigues them and they want to have it in their bookcase, then you can always purchase it.
Space saver
Instead of cramping your books in your bookcase and trying to fit everything in, always having a book available online is a great space saver!
Money saver
Not everybody can afford buying new books every now and then, let alone books that are not in your mother tongue. Being able to access a great variety of books online can save you loads of money that you can invest in other areas of your child’s well-being.
Reading books is essential for kids who want to develop their language skills in a foreign language. At the same time it’s a very relaxing past-time. However, lack of money or space can prevent parents from buying books for their kids. The internet though provides a wide list of websites where your kids can read books online for free. Here are some sites you can visit:
Read books online for free
Below you will find a list of websites which provide free online story books for kids. Some you may need to register with or sign up to read books online. Others you are able to navigate freely.
Oxford Owl
The British Oxford Owl Website offer a large range of free books online for kids aged 3-11 years old. Simply select the categories and choose from the various options including Age Group, Book Type, Level, and Series.
International Children’s Digital Library
This website provides free books online in English, but also other languages including Spanish, Russian. Here you can find a wide range of multicultural kids books and story books online for free. Simply choose the age range and the type of book you wish to read.
Storyline Online
Another great website for finding free books for kids online. On this site when you select the book you want to read, it streams the reading of the book. For each book there are also activity guides after for building children’s literacy skills.
Children’s Books Online
This website has a range of free online books for kids in various different languages. Children can select books according to the reading stage they are at and read along, or they can select the audio version where there is a narrator.
Magic Blox
Magic Blox have many different books in multiple languages including English, French, German, Italian, Mongolian, Spanish. Simply choose the category, reading level, and language, to find a range of free online books for kids to read. To read these online books, simply click the button to turn the page.
One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays is Midsummer Night’s Dream. The students of the 6th grade of Primary School have a chance to acquaint themselves with this play in Unit 3 Lesson 3 where they can find an adaptation of it for a school play.
Here are the main characters.
You can watch a short video of the story here:
You can also help your students understand the story by using the British Council’s worksheet which is ideal for young learners.
William Shakespeare is undoubtedtly one of the most famous playwrights of all time. His plays have been extremely successful and lots of them have been apated into films. But what do you know about Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-uponAvon, in England. His father, John, was a glove-maker. His mother, Mary, was a farmer’s daughter. He had two older sisters, two younger sisters and three younger brothers. William probably studied Latin, Greek and history, and left school when he was 14 or 15. Three years later he married Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter called Susanna and twins named Judith and Hamnet.
Sometime before 1590 he left Stratford and went to London, the capital city of England. London’s first theatre opened in 1576. Shakespeare worked in London as an actor and then started writing plays too. In 1593 the plague, a terrible disease, killed thousands of people and theatres were closed. During this time William started to write poems instead of plays. His short poems are called sonnets. Shakespeare helped build a new theatre called The Globe. It opened in 1599. It was round and had space for 3,000 people. No women acted in Shakespeare’s time: men and boys played all the parts.
Shakespeare’s plays
Shakespeare wrote comedies with happy endings, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He wrote tragedies which had sad endings, like Romeo and Juliet. His history plays are about kings and queens, like Henry V. Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, maybe more.Here is a list of his plays according to their genre.
Comedies
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
Historic plays
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
William became rich and famous. He died when he was 52 on 23 April 1616. His plays and poetry were very popular 400 years ago and they are still popular today.
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