Finding World Language Materials in the ERC

World Language eBooks & Resources

This guide will describe world language materials and how to find them in the ERC

BC Subscription World Language eBooks

Bookflix This link opens in a new window
BookFlix is a digital literacy resource that pairs more than 120 animated stories from Weston Woods with a best-selling nonfiction eBook from Scholastic on a similar subject. The fiction and nonfiction pairings are designed to strengthen early literacy skills while exposing young learners to real world concepts.
TumbleBooks This link opens in a new window
The TumbleBook Library is an online collection of electronic childrens books accessible through the librarys website. Animation, sound, music and narration are added to existing picture books to produce an electronic book which you can read, or have read to you. The TumbleBook Library also includes chapter books in audio book and e-book formats, multi-cultural topics, foreign language and bilingual books, puzzles, and games.
Spelling, concentration, and fill-in-the blank games developed to reinforce young readers comprehension skills are also available. Additionally, the language drop down menu allows you to view the entire website in Spanish or French."

World Language Curriculum Resources

PebbleGo This link opens in a new window
Designed to meet the unique needs of K-3 researchers. Includes leveled-text, read-aloud audio, videos, audio clips, and printables. It also includes lesson plan ideas. Has materials in English & Spanish.
PebbleGoNext This link opens in a new window
PebbleGo Next database helps students grades 3-5 learn key concepts related to social studies, biographies, states, and American Indians. Has materials in English & Spanish

Free Online World Language eBooks

Epic Books
(Grades: K-6)
Epic books is an Internet site offering Educators a free account. It contains over 10,000 ebooks, videos in English, Spanish, Chinese, and French titles. Teachers can set up classrooms and track students books and reading times.
Global Storybooks Portal
Read, download, toggle, and listen to a wide variety of illustrated stories. Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide.
StoryWeaver
Digital repository of multilingual stories for children. Designed to provide children with reading resources, StoryWeaver is a digital gateway to thousands of richly illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in mother tongue languages. There's more to StoryWeaver than just reading. It is also a first-of-its-kind platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, and translate new stories for children. It's the ideal place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to come together to weave new stories for children and help to create a pathway to nurture the next generation of readers!
African Storybook
Open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa.
For children’s literacy, enjoyment and imagination.
Biblioteca Digital del ILCE
Digital Library of the ILCE is a portal that offers works and collections of books for free internet access. It presents works of general culture: literature, art, geography, history, scientific dissemination, environmental education, and pedagogy, among others. It has a children's section that offers reading options for school-age and a didactic section to support the work and training of the basic education teacher.
Global Digital Library
The GDL will collect existing high quality open educational reading resources, and make them available on web, mobile and for print. It will also facilitate translation and localization of these resources to more than 300 languages. The GDL’s initial purpose is to support access to high-quality early-grade reading resources.
Worldreader (Mobile App Access Only)
Our library is designed to help people read for education, economic opportunity, better health, gender equality, and just for fun. Our readers are drawn to books that reflect the world they live in. We source books from local publishers in local languages that depict the lives, challenges, and triumphs of our readers, so they can relate to the stories. Worldreader’s collections are curricularly aligned and designed to support lesson plans. With our library, students can expand their vocabulary, master subjects, build 21st Century skills, and improve reading fluency