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Link Description/Directions/Explanation Spanish Children’s Stories Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a https://www.thespanishexperiment.com native Spanish speaker. /stories Storyline online Streaming videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books https://www.storylineonline.net/library/ alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

KidLit TV A diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to https://kidlit.tv/category/read-out-loud/ reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Harper Kids read alouds Authors from HarperKids publisher reading their works online (YouTube channel) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi YzMwyBPG96EDjV7MAohaCnXoQnqiBmG

Brightly Online Brightly, a Penguin Random House Company, presents read alouds from their collection https://www.readbrightly.com/topics/brigh tly-storytime/

Storytime with Bill from Little Brown Publisher Little, Brown Young Readers presents videos of some books Books in their read aloud (YouTube Channel) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGGyitsqvj 5Z-sVQ_btrTftbVofgE6wWG

Unite For Literacy Access to more than 400 original picture books, one fourth of them written in Spanish. The digital books provide audio narrations in more https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/ than 40 languages, spoken by native speakers in warm, expressive voices.

Storytime from Space A project of the Global Space Education Foundation, children’s books are sent into space to the International Space Station. While in space, https://storytimefromspace.com/library/ Teaching and Learning

astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth.

Draw Every Day with Jarrett J. Krosoczka Live lessons every with National Book Award finalist https://www.youtube.com/studiojjk author/illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka @ 12:00pm CST. Videos are saved for future viewing. (YouTube Channel) STEAM Makerspace challenges STEAM makerspace challenges such as “Can you fit through an index card?”, “How far can your straw rocket travel?” and “How many drops https://www.makermaven.net/steam- of water can you put on a penny?” challenges

30 Days of Lego Challenges Challenge students to create something new with LEGO bricks. https://thatbricklife.com/lego-challenge- 30-days-of-play- calendar/?fbclid=IwAR1Is1A-7QEqt0vjw- MhnqWpYEl8Mo47VZksf51Xb8aG57Aa_k 7ixKFOHVo