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Best Free Audio Books Online. April 2, 2009 LearnOutLoud invites you jump in and listen to 100 of the best free audiobook downloads available online.

Best Free Audio Books Online

For many years now we've featured a Free Audio Book every Friday as part of our Free Resource of the Day Emails. From these emails, we've pulled out 100 of our favorites, including ancient classics, Shakespearean drama, key European & Russian novels, important political documents, poetry introductions, and the finest American literature. Whether you are a student or life-long learner, this selection covers just about everyone from Homer to Jane Austen, to Mark Twain and even an appearance by Sherlock Holmes! Click the titles below to get started on your free literary audiobook journey: 1. Listen to one of the all-time great works of American literature: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2.

Here's a set of free audio books that is almost too good to be true. 3. Download Jane Austen's undeniable classic Pride and Prejudice. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Free Audiobooks and eBooks - Librophile. Free public domain audiobooks. ABC alphabet and Phonemic Awareness Practice for Kindergarten, ESL (EFL), Preschool & Special Education. Harry Potter Reading Club. Just Books Read Aloud - Home. Skip Reske - ESL-BITS.NET - ESL English Listening - Audiobooks - Listen to a Book and Read Along - fast and slow listening speeds. Holes by Louis Sachar "Stanley Yelnats and his family have never had anything but bad luck, so it's not really a surprise to him when he is falsely accused and convicted of theft.

Skip Reske - ESL-BITS.NET - ESL English Listening - Audiobooks - Listen to a Book and Read Along - fast and slow listening speeds

Given the choice of jail or Camp Green Lake, Stanley chooses Green Lake because he's never been to camp before. Unfortunately, Camp Green Lake doesn't have a lake and it isn't really a camp. It's a juvenile detention facility. And to build character, the warden, who paints her fingernails with snake venom, has each "camper" dig a hole five feet deep by five feet wide by five feet long every day, even Saturdays and Sundays. ICDL - International Children's Digital Library. Epic! - Books for Kids. TeachersFirst's Interactive Audio Books. Find free on-line books perfect for emergent readers.

TeachersFirst's Interactive Audio Books

The author of the site, the Center for Literacy and Disabilities studies at the University of North Carolina, wants to provide free resources to give everyone an opportunity to learn to read and write. All books are free and available for download as slideshows using PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash. Book topics include biographies, fairy tales, history, science, math, nursery rhymes, poetry, food, and more! All stories have speech enabling, can come in as many as fourteen different languages, and are compatible with touch screens.

Since a wide range of age groups use this site, they have a rating system to suggest what is suitable for younger readers. ** This site does contain some materials NOT suitable for all classrooms. Tag(s): literacy (91) In the Classroom Increase your big book collection ten fold by projecting Tar Heel Readers onto an interactive whiteboard or projector. Just Books Read Aloud - Home.