Literacy Tech Hub
You’ll find digital tools here to build literacy across the lifespan. You can access these tools from home, on the go through a mobile device, or at one of our dedicated whole-family, literacy tech hubs.
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Whole-Family Literacy Tools
General
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The MPL website is a useful place online for everyone. You can use it to find and borrow books and other things from the library without any trouble. If you like reading on a tablet or listening to stories, you can get digital books and magazines there. When you need information for different things, like work or life, you can find articles and resources to help you understand. The website also tells you about fun library events and programs, which can be interesting.
You can find out where the libraries are, when they're open, and if they're closed on special days. It's like having the library right on your computer, and it's easy to use.
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Website
password: CAE75AThis website offers easy-to-read news stories that can help you learn to read, write, speak, and understand the English language. Seven new stories are posted each Wednesday, along with audio, exercises, vocabulary, a crossword puzzle, a word search, and a poll. Listen to each story in full or sentence-by-sentence.
Adults
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Website
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password: coming soon!AutoTutor is a special way to help you learn, and it's easy to use. It's like having an online teacher named Cristina and an online friend named Jordan. They both talk to you and help you learn new things. They're like computer characters, and they can have conversations with you. If you're doing really well, they'll adjust to make it a bit harder, and if you need help, they'll make it easier.
AutoTutor has 30 lessons that can teach you about words, sentences, stories, and even digital stuff like videos and websites. It's a cool way to learn different things, and you can do it online.
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Website
username: alp@literacymidsouth.org
password: literacy901The Change Agent is a special magazine made for adult teachers and learners by the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) at World Education.
The magazine's job is to help adult learners and teachers learn about important issues in our society. They want to inspire people to get involved in their communities and make things better. Each issue talks about a different topic through stories, news, activities, poems, and drawings.
You can also find extra stuff on their website, like audio versions of the articles and more resources. The cool thing is, the stories in the magazine are written by adult learners. If you want to write for them, you can check their website for more details about what they're looking for.
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It’s easy to read every day with digital books for adults, children, and families. You’ll always have a free library in your pocket.
Books are available in English & Spanish. Books for adults, children, and families. Learning activities are included with each book!
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Apply for a scholarship from Literacy Mid-South to use this tool by clicking here.
Learning Upgrade enables anyone, anywhere to learn English, math, and job skills for self-reliance through a groundbreaking, smartphone-based education program.
Learning Upgrade provides learners of all ages and abilities their own path to learning. The program includes over 1,400 lessons and 28 courses that use engaging songs, games, and immediate feedback.
English Learners
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Families
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A web-based tool that empowers caregivers at home to deliver rigorous, individualized literacy instruction to all children in their care.
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It’s easy to read every day with digital books for adults, children, and families. You’ll always have a free library in your pocket.
Books are available in English & Spanish. Books for adults, children, and families. Learning activities are included with each book!
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WatchKnowLearn has a simple goal: to create a great online place where teachers can find and share the best educational videos for students from kindergarten to 12th grade. They want to make this service free for everyone – teachers, parents, and students. To achieve this, they ask teachers to suggest and review videos, organizing them into categories using a special system. The videos are of high quality, cover many school subjects, and are safe for kids because teachers check them. WatchKnowLearn has around 50,000 videos in over 5,000 categories, and anyone can use them without registering or paying.
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Khan Academy offers personalized learning for students & families to use at their own pace. The lessons are aligned to state standards and created by experts. This webpage includes lessons & practice for 2nd-9th grade.
Learners use the computer to explore these lessons.
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From phonics and reading comprehension to writing strategies and more, IXL helps learners develop the communication skills needed for success in school, college, and career. Learners use the computer to explore these lessons. This webpage includes topics from pre-K to 12th grade.
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The Interactive Decodable Book Series is now available for free for all Tennessee families of K–2 children to encourage at-home reading practice to help young learners become stronger readers. This launch is part of the family component of the state’s Reading 360 initiative to help boost strong reading skills amongst Tennessee students.
Kids
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Reading Bear is a website that helps kids learn to read. It's a free program that teaches new readers words and ideas while also showing them the different sounds letters make in English. They worked hard to make 50 lessons that cover lots of different letter patterns and show over 1,200 words. Each lesson can be watched like a video or played as an interactive slideshow. In the lessons, they teach a few rules about how letters sound, show pictures of the words, and even have videos to help understand sentences. They want kids to learn at their own speed, without feeling stressed or rushed, and believe that learning to read can be fun and easy.
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Storyline Online is a special website that helps kids with reading by showing videos of famous actors reading children's books with beautiful illustrations. Actors like Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, and Viola Davis take turns reading stories. Listening to stories has been proven to make kids better at reading, writing, and other important skills. The website is always available, and each book comes with extra lessons created by a teacher to help kids understand and improve their English.
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Starfall is a special learning website created by Dr. Stephen Schutz, who had a hard time learning to read when he was young because of dyslexia. He wanted to help kids learn to read through fun, interactive games that use sight, sound, and touch. Starfall started in 2002 as a free service for teaching kids to read, and it has grown to cover language arts and math for preschool to fifth grade. The program focuses on exploration, play, and positive encouragement to help kids feel confident and motivated to learn. Starfall is like a fun game that also helps kids with reading and math. It follows state learning goals and is great for emergent readers, kids with special needs, and English language learners.
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This website is made for parents, teachers, and kids to easily listen to a collection of children's books. It's designed to be easy for everyone, even if they don't know how to read. The site only has children's books & kids can’t end up off the website. When a story is read, you usually see the book pages, not the person reading. The website has some simple animations, like zooming in on parts of the page. They often change the order of the books to encourage listening to new ones. It's a great place for kids to enjoy stories without any distractions.
Literacy Tech Hub Locations
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