Locating, Adapting and Storing Digital Text

Many resources for finding e-text can be found on the HIAT website. Links to support teaching are arranged by subject area. On the e-text page, you'll find links to books, poems, and fables. The best place to find e-text across topics is on the curriculum page.

Finding leveled text is important for differentiating reading material based on your students' level. Some subscription sites are netTrekker or SIRS Discoverer.

When you don't have text that is already leveled, you can use some tools to gauge readability. Try Okapi, Amazon's book statistics, or the stats you can see in MS Word when you run the spell checker.

Now that you have found some sites, you need a way to organize your links. There are many free online tools to do this, but we like Diigo.

• Our links in Diigo: http://groups.diigo.com/groups/CTGlinks
• Sign up for your own Diigo account

Sometimes it makes sense to save your e-text as a document that you can store and retrieve later. Create your own e-library, but be sure you know the basics about e-text formats!