Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Digame Un Cuento: Tell Me a Story Bilingual Library
Compilation of poems and stories for English language learners, from preschoolers to young adults. Find English and Spanish versions of poems and songs, along with recommended Spanish-language books. Activities and many resources included.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Digame Un Cuento: Tell Me a Story Bilingual Library
Compilation of poems and stories for English language learners, from preschoolers to young adults. Find English and Spanish versions of poems and songs, along with recommended Spanish-language books. Activities and many resources included.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Stories
During this interactive game based on the PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, students can hear several stories read aloud.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Univ. Of Victoria English Language Centre: Wild Children
A set of varied timed exercises based short readings about Romulus and Remus, Tarzan, Native Americans, Canadian artist Emily Carr, and culture shock. The ESL level is advanced.
Other
Temas Puertorriquenos Cuentos Y Poemas
Short stories and poems in Spanish from Puerto Rico for K-12 students.
Other
Joy English
This website includes a mix of news headlines (Voice of America), classic fables, and tales written in English or Simplified Chinese. Some stories provide audio so that you can listen and read along in English or Chinese. There is also a...
Other
Light Up Your Brain: Brain Teaser Games & Audio Stories for Kids
Fantastic classic children's stories online that you can listen to while you read along. Stories are offered in streaming or downloadable MP3 format. Some of the popular stories are: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", "The Tale of the Flopsy...
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: What's That Noise?
Listen to a cute story about animal sounds. If you like, you can read along with it.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Teaching Tv: Television as a Story Teller Lesson
This lesson plan will help young young scholars explore how television can be used to tell stories.
University of Houston
University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk
This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.
Other
Sun Online Magazine for Children
An online magazine for children featuring online games, stories, tips on parenting, virtual school and tales. Russian only.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Spanish Theme Page
A great variety of activities and resources for both teachers and students of Spanish. Includes a picture dictionary, information, coloring sheets, and short books to inspire vocabulary learning. Contains many fantastic resources for...
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encylopedia Mythica: Folktales From Many Lands
Read a Mayan folktale about how the sun and moon were created, a Russian tale about how a farm boy becomes a prince, a Scandinavian tale about how Winter captured Spring, or a Blackfoot Indian story about learning from buffalo. More than...
East of England Broadband Network
East of England Broadband Network: About Myths and Legends
Here you will read a brief definition of what a legend is, a myth, and a folktale and how they are different from each other.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Robots (Reading Comprehension Exercise)
A reading comprehension exercise designed for Spanish-speaking ELLs about the present and future use of robots. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise is in English.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The Windy City (Reading Comprehension)
A series of exercises about the weather in Chicago that tests reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking ELLs. Instructions are in Spanish; exercises and readings in English.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Transportation (Reading & Comprehending)
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELLs about transportation and related topics designed to engage reading comprehension skills.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Greetings (Saludos)
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELLs in which students read a brief, simple monologue and then answer comprehension questions about what they have read. Instructions are in Spanish; exercises in English.
Eserver
E Server: Short Fiction
A diverse group of writers, subjects, and eras is represented here. All references cited are often anthologized and studied in English classes.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Fables
Students will learn the characteristics of fables by separating them from myths and legends, as well as view and read fables from Aesop within this SMART whiteboard lesson.
Other
Sur La Lune Fairy Tales: Japanese Fairy Tales
Online version of the book, "Japanese Fairy Tales," first published in 1908. It includes 20 or so tales translated from Japanese into English including the following: "My Lord Bag of Rice," "The Farmer and the Badger," "The Adventures of...
Other
The Neverending Tale
This is a fun site geared primarily for students 8-16. It allows students to read and add to stories already begun by others and to decide what path the story takes. Because there are some rules and procedures to follow, this site is...
Other
"Animals You Can See at the Zoo" by Roland Merino
A short story about some of the animals you can see at the zoo and the sounds they make. Requires Real Player to hear the sounds.
Other
The Puppetry Home Page: Intro. To the History of Bunraku
The Puppetry Home Page tracks the history of Bunraku. Bunraku literally means puppets and storytelling. Learn about its predecessors and current day Bunraku.