Online Stories - CCSS RL.8.10, RI.8.10

Links verified on 02/21/2024

1. 10 favorite Short Stories for Middle School.
Click Image to Enlarge		If your school is low on resources, your students can enjoy 10 amazing short stories for middle school by using this site. SEE MORE
2. 75 Best Short Stories To Teach in Middle School.
Click Image to Enlarge		Short stories are a perfect teaching tool for middle schoolers. Because they require less time to read, they’re an easy way to expose your students to new authors and genres. SEE MORE
3. Aaron Shepard's World of Stories.
Click Image to Enlarge		"Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction - all from award-winning author Aaron Shepard." SEE MORE
4. Aesop's Fables.
Click Image to Enlarge		Online fables, some are audio. SEE MORE
5. Audio Short Stories.
Click Image to Enlarge		Stories from The Moonlit Road told by storytellers: ghost stories, folktales, myths and legends. SEE MORE
6. Classic Novels and eBooks.
Click Image to Enlarge		Books online divided up into chapters. Search by book title or author. Includes short stories and a children's section. SEE MORE
7. Classic Short Stories.
Click Image to Enlarge		Online text of some of the short story classics. SEE MORE
8. CommonLit.
Click Image to Enlarge		When it’s time to plan a new unit, it can be daunting to find high-quality, relatable short stories your middle school students will enjoy. Here are a roundup of engaging, thematically rich stories that middle school teachers love. SEE MORE
9. Electronic Text Index.
Click Image to Enlarge		Search for online books by author, title or tag with the Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts. SEE MORE
10. Folktale of the Month.
Click Image to Enlarge		"Mike's Random Folktales" selection plus an index of recent selections. SEE MORE
11. Good Reading On-line.
Click Image to Enlarge		Many classic novels online with tools to help students read on line. SEE MORE
12. Learn Out Loud.
Click Image to Enlarge		Free audio and video podcasts of novels. SEE MORE
13. Middle Grade Novels.
Click Image to Enlarge		These Middle Grade Novels offer a larger vocabulary and much higher word count than the illustrated stories for kids. These stories deal with friendships, riddles, courage, and resourceful. Follow each epic tale chapter-by-chapter and use the table on contents for easy access. SEE MORE
14. Online Newspapers.
Click Image to Enlarge		Read newspapers from all over the world. SEE MORE
15. Poetry 180.
Click Image to Enlarge		A list of poems and authors. SEE MORE
16. Project Gutenberg.
Click Image to Enlarge		Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. No fee or registration! No special apps needed! 50 years of eBooks 1971-2021. SEE MORE
17. Short Stories for Middle School.
Click Image to Enlarge		To encourage the love of literature in classrooms all over the world, use these short stories for middle school students, chosen to encourage a passion for reading, thinking about, and discussing great literature. SEE MORE
18. Short Stories with Questions.
Click Image to Enlarge		22 short stories with questions. Written by some of the greatest authors in history, these stories are short enough to cover in a single class period, and rich enough to warrant study. There are ten multiple-choice and long response questions for each text. These questions cover a range of reading skills from comprehension and inferring to interpreting themes and identifying figurative language techniques.  SEE MORE
19. Story: Tiger Son.
Click Image to Enlarge		An online story with audio that is based on an Ancient Chinese Tale by Po Chung-ling. SEE MORE
20. The Internet Classics Archive.
Click Image to Enlarge		Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994. SEE MORE
21. The Moonlit Road.
Click Image to Enlarge		"Southern ghost stories, folktales, myths, legends and flat out whoppers - they're all here on The Moonlit Road.com. Light a lantern and come sit a spell with our storytellers!" SEE MORE
22. The Online Books Page.
Click Image to Enlarge		Search over 1 million free books by author, title, or subject. SEE MORE
23. Young Adult Storybooks.
Click Image to Enlarge		Select from 7 online stories to read. SEE MORE