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SUMMER Reading Opportunities
- SUMMER READING OPPORTUNITIES
- The British Columbia Library Association Presents The 2020 Summer Reading Club URL
- Storywalks in the Saanich Peninsula URL
  Saanich Peninsula Literacy has created safe, physically-distanced story walks that will be at various outdoor locations throughout the summer. It's a wonderful way to get outside to read, walk, and play!
- Greater Victoria Public Library URL
  Greater Victoria Public Library E-Books - hundreds of titles available to download for reading on most devices through the CloudLibrary App
  How to use:
  Find the right app for your device
  Log in using your GVPL Public Library Account. Click here to sign up for an online account if you don't have one yet.
  Browse, borrow, and read through the app!
  
  Greater Victoria Public Library Audiobooks - hundreds of titles available to download for listening on most devices through the RB Digital Media Manager App
  How to use:
  Find the right app for your device
  Register your GVPL Public Library Account (Go to the Homepage and click the REGISTER link). Click here to sign up for an online account if you don't have one yet.
  Browse, borrow, and listen through the app!
- La Bibliothèque des Amériques URL
  Become a free member of La Bibliothèque des Amériques for FREE access to thousands of French titles, including over 2000 ebooks for kids!
- Grilled Cheese Magazine URL
  Grilled Cheese is a fun bilingual children’s magazine created and printed in Montreal. Each issue is jam-packed with terrific activities and engaging stories. The theme of the upcoming summer issue is Forest/Forêt.
- L’école des loisirs URL
  The delightful L’école des loisirs French books that many French Immersion families enjoy as subscription packages to are also available as free audio podcasts, perfect for at-home storytimes!
- Sciences Mag Junior URL
  Sciences Mag Junior is a brand new science magazine for kids published by La Liberté, Manitoba’s French-speaking weekly newspaper. In Issue No. 1, medical experts from Manitoba explain Covid-19 in a fun and colourful way.
- Other Free Online Reading Resources
- Tumblebooks library URL
  Animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBook Library takes existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book. You can read it, or have it read to you.
- The Fable Cottage URL
  Children's stories translated into French with optional English translation and slow audio from a native French speaker.
- Littérature Jeunesse URL
  Over 1,000 free stories to download for children. Levels 1-4 cover a range of reading abilities and interests.
- Littératout URL
  Littératout offers a wide range of online reading resources from kindergarten to grade 8 and the option to choose your child's grade level on the homepage. **NOTE: these resources are for Francophone speakers so, FI students may need to make reading choices that do not reflect their grade levels.
- Abdo Digital Bookshelf URL
  ABDO is an educational publisher of English books and digital resources for schools and public libraries. I enjoyed looking at the origami book today which you can download and view...it had some great ideas for making things.
- Virtual Opportunities for kids to meet authors
- FOLD Kids Academy URL
  The Festival of Literary Diversity’s Kids Bookfest is holding weekly webinars on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Children can join authors and illustrators who are reading from and talking about their latest books as well as tackling a craft project. FOLD has made the experience, done through Zoom, very interactive. Upcoming April webinars feature authors Kyo Maclear and Matthew Forsythe.
- Online Book Club for kids URL
  Canadian children’s librarian Kathie MacIsaac and teacher-author Colleen Nelson have started a middle-grade book club. Kids have a month to read the book and then MacIsaac will host a video meet-up between the author and all participants. First up is Kenneth Oppel for his new alien-plant-invasion thriller Bloom (April 30); next Michelle Kadarusman drops in to discuss her Tasmanian rainforest–set Music for Tigers (May 30); and Nelson will discuss her canine adventure, Harvey Comes Home, featuring the eponymous West Highland Terrier (June 24).
- Author Read-Alouds
- Fern and Horn Read by Marie-Louise Gay URL
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Read by Eric Carle URL
- Love you forever Read by Robert Munsch URL
- La moufle - racontée par Florence Desnouveaux URL
- La Grenouille à grande bouche - racontée par Francine Vidal URL
- La Souris qui cherchait un mari - racontée par Francine Vidal URL
- Maëlle la timide - raconté par Henri Dès URL
- Children's stories read by actors
- The Hula-Hoopin' Queen read by Oprah Winfrey URL
- Arnie the Doughnut read by Chris O'Dowd URL
- Turkey Trouble read by Marc Maron URL
- Chester's Way read by Vanessa Marano & Katie Leclerc URL
- Here Comes the Garbage Barge read by Justin Theroux URL
- Clark the Shark read by Chris Pine URL
- Quackenstein Hatches a Family read by Kristen Bell URL
- Hey That's My Monster read by Lily Tomlin URL
  Do you recognize the voice? Yes! It's Ms Frizzle from Magic School Bus!
Science
Social Studies
Arts & Physical Education
Math
Language Arts
- Story Telling
- Storynory URL
- ABC's of Reading URL
- Story Time for Me URL
- storybird URL
- Book Resources
- Red Cedar Book Awards URL
- Red Cedar ELLG URL
- CM Magazine URL
- Book Seer URL
- Read Kiddo Read URL
- Chocolate Lily Book Awards URL
- Common Sense Media URL
- Authors & Illustrators
- Patricia Polacco URL
- Michael Rosen URL
- Kristen Butcher URL
- Mo Willems URL
- Dr. Seuss URL
- Speaking and Listening
- Letter Sounds - Symbaloo page URL
- Sing and Move page - Katie's Symbaloo URL
- Critical Thinking
- CoCo's Adversmarts - Interactive grade 2/s, 3's URL
- Privacy Playground - First Cyberpigs Privacy Interactive grades 3's, 4's URL
- Privacy Playground - Second Cyberpigs Online safety Interactive grade 4/5's URL
- Passport to the Internet - Interactive Online Ettiquette and Privacy grade 4/5's URL
- Français
- Le coin du prof
- Les coccinelles (M à 3) Étude de sons, syllabes et orthographe. URL
- Professeur Phifix - (3 à 5) Lecture, grammaire, orthographe, etc. URL
- Soutien 67 (M à 5) Les mots, la phrase, la conjugaison URL
- Des comptines et des sons URL
- Story Telling/Raconté une histoire
- BookBox - Livres en français URL
- Nominees list File
- Nominees list File
Other Resources
Student Projects
Parents
Teachers