Library of America short stories

This webpage offers an extensive, alphabetically organized list of stories featured in the Library of America's "Story of the Week" series. Each entry includes the author's name and the title of the story, providing readers with easy access to a diverse range of American literature. 

This resource is particularly useful for educators, students, and literature enthusiasts seeking to explore works by specific authors or to discover new stories within the American literary tradition.

https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/p/stories-sorted-by-author.html

StoryWeaver

StoryWeaver is an open-source platform created by Pratham Books, designed to provide access to a vast library of multilingual children's stories. It allows users to read, create, translate, and share stories for free, making it a valuable resource for educators, parents, and children around the world. 

The platform is particularly useful in promoting literacy and a love for reading in various languages, including those that are less commonly represented in mainstream publishing.

How can you use StoryWeaver?

Accessing free stories: Teachers can use StoryWeaver to find age-appropriate stories in multiple languages for their students. The stories are categorized by reading level, making it easy to select suitable material for different age groups and proficiency levels.

Creating customized stories: Teachers can use the platform to create their own stories, tailored to the needs and interests of their students. They can also involve students in the story creation process, fostering creativity and writing skills.

Tanslating stories: StoryWeaver offers the ability to translate existing stories into different languages. This feature is particularly useful for teachers working in multilingual classrooms or looking to support students learning a new language.

Using stories as teaching tools: Teachers can incorporate the stories into their lesson plans, using them as prompts for discussions, reading comprehension exercises, or creative writing assignments. The platform also provides resources like flashcards and storyboards that can enhance the storytelling experience.

Promoting inclusivity and cultural awareness: With stories available in numerous languages and reflecting diverse cultural backgrounds, StoryWeaver helps teachers promote inclusivity and cultural awareness in the classroom.

https://storyweaver.org.in/en/

Storynory. Audio stories for children

Storynory is a website that offers a collection of free audio stories for children. These stories include fairy tales, myths, classic literature, and original works. 

The website aims to promote literacy and listening skills in children through engaging storytelling. It provides a wide range of stories suitable for different age groups, and many of them are accompanied by text for reading along. Storynory also features educational resources such as language learning materials and storytelling tips for parents and teachers.

https://www.storynory.com/

LOTE4Kids

LOTE4Kids helps kids have fun with books in languages other than English, both at the library and at home. Kids can also watch these books translated and read aloud in English to get better at reading and understanding.

App on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.au.lote4kids&hl=en&pli=1

App on App Store

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/lote4kids/id1624462855

Website:

https://lote4kids.com/

Storybooks

StoryBooks is a site where you can create illustrated stories with the help of AI. It is an online tool that does not require registration and can be used free of charge. StoryBooks is a web application that allows parents or educators to generate personalised stories for children.

https://www.storybooks.app/

Storynory

Storynory is a podcast and website with audio streaming that has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. 

They offer over 600 audio stories on the site including original stories, fairytales, classic authors, poems… Most of them are aimed at an age group around 7 to 11 years. 

You can find Storynory on:

https://www.storynory.com/

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/storynory 

On YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7gXZrVe2y-u5LGLilMvvQ

On Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/storynory/ 

Storybird

Storybird is a cool educational online platform for children from age 3 to 14+, parents and teachers. It offers short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Students can express themselves and develop creatively their writing skills

StoryWeaver

StoryWeaver from Pratham Books is a digital gateway to thousands of open-licensed children’s stories. It is also a platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, translate, and save new stories for children.

An amazing resource for children, parents and educators.

Browse StoryWeaver on:

https://storyweaver.org.in/stories?language=English&query=&sort=Relevance

(Stories in English language)

StoryCorps

StoryCorps is an independently funded organization. Since 2003 it offers one of the largest oral history projects of its kind. 

StoryCorps consists of more than 50,000 interviews from more than 80,000 participants. The interviews can be used as writing prompts, discussion topics, primary sources for research projects, and more. 

Visit: https://storycorps.org/

 

Storynory

Audio books have become increasingly popular in recent years, as there are many benefits to listening to literature. Storynory can be a good resource to develop listening and reading skills. In case of ESL students, they will also benefit from hearing clear pronunciation and native speech patterns.

Storynory is a free website with a collection of stories sorted in categories such as fairytales, educational stories, junior stories, myths and world stories, classic audio books, and music and poems. It was founded in 1995 by Hugh Fraser and Matthew Lynn.

All their stories come with an HTML5 audio player that should work on most devices in use today. Users can read the text and/ or listen to the story.

http://www.storynory.com/

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/storynory

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Storynory

On Google+: https://plus.google.com/117579767918946827158/posts

Itellyouastory.com

Stories have an incredible educational value due to the their influence on memory, but also because they allow to face a wide variety of topics and contexts. Of course, this is very interesting when learning a new language.

On this page you will find a nice selection of tales and fables to read in English. The collection contains also audios and videos.

Webpage: http://www.itellyouastory.com/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itellyouastory

App available on the AppStore: 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/english-bedtime-stories/id595458766?l=it&ls=1&mt=8

Android App: 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itellyouastory.android

The clues to a great story. Andrew Stanton on TED.com

Smories

Smories http://www.smories.com are original stories for kids, read by kids.

We got the idea for smories.com during an extremely long journey in a very dirty Land Rover from the Kalahari desert in Botswana to Cape Town in South Africa in February last year.

Our daughter (8) had the idea to film herself with our ipod reading Enid Blyton short stories, and then play them back to her younger sister (6). This kept them entertained for hours.

Our kids have always loved reading to each other and are transfixed when other children read them stories. They are also obsessed with the internet and will make their way to youtube any time they get their hands on a computer.

We thought a website that had a continuous flow of new stories, read aloud by kids, would make a healthier destination than so much of the stuff out there. Imagine you're stuck in traffic and need to keep a miniature person entertained in the back. Access a playlist of smories stories from your i-phone and voila...

Once we had the idea for a site that publishes stories for kids read by kids, we also thought it would be a great unthreatening forum for showcasing unpublished stories. This allows writers to test their work in a straightforward and transparent way, hopefully giving them exposure which they might otherwise not have received. 

Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar (Source: http://www.smories.com/about/)