Last night during one of my sleepless spells, I came across this really  good site.  It has links to TONS of book units.  Not every single linked worked but the vast majority did.  The books are listed alphabetically. 

Literature Units

http://www.loveland.k12.oh.us/district/technology/ITech/LES/Reading/B.htm

I'll admit I cheated.  I found them online already done for me but I thought I'd share them with you all.  They have activities, questions, and vocabulary.  I'm using Lightning Lit. for the older boys.

Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Magic Tree House # 22 (own)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading27/revolutionary_war_on_wednesday.htm

Midnight on the Moon by Magic Tree House # 8 (own)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading56/midnight_on_the_moon.htm

Tigers at Twilight by Magic Tree House #19 (own)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading21/tigers_at_twilight.htm

The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson (own)

http://www.nancypolette.com/LitGuidesText/bestschoolyearever.htm

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading37/best_christmas_pageant_ever.htm

Stuart Little by E.B. White (own)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading25/stuart_little.htm

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/chocolate/charlie/charlie_and_the_chocolate_factor.htm

The Chocolate Touch by (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading2/chocolate_touch.htm

Aliens Ate My Homework (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading51/aliens_ate_my_homework.htm

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (library)

http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1930.html

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading8/whipping_boy.htm

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading/fried_worms_unit.htm

Because of Winn Dixie (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/dixie/because_of_winn_dixie.htm

The Dragonslayers (library)

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading7/dragonslayers.htm

I often find it nice to have books on hand to read but I don’t want to have a ton of books in my house.  After all I already have 2 tall and 3 short bookshelves filled.  My house can’t take anymore and it is not always convenient to run to the library.  So I have located some of the classics online for free.  Here’s my list I have so far.

White Fang

A Little Princess

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Animal Farm

Anne of Green Gables

At the Back of the North Wind

 The Pilgrim’s Progress

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

 The Swiss Family Robinson

Five Children and It

 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Understood Betsy

 Through the Looking Glass

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

 The War of the Worlds

Heidi (This was a favorite of mine as a child)

 The Wind in the Willows

The Hound of Baskervilles

Little Men

 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Princess and the Goblin

 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

 The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope

The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

 Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain

 A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Odyssey by Samuel Butler

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden

 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 The Real Mother Goose

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Jane Eyre

 Sense and Sensibility

Anderson’s Fairy Tales

 Or you could pick an audio version of Anderson’s Fairy Tales

Aesop’s Fables (text or audio)

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Reading Literature – The Primer includes these stories The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Boy, the Old Woman and The Pig, The Boy and the Goat, The Pancake, Chicken Little, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Tuppens, Little Spider’s First Web

 Reading Literature – First Reader includes these stories The Three Little Pigs, The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse, The Cat and The Mouse, and many more

Everyday Classics Primer includes these stories The Three Bears, Jack and Jill, The Tar Baby, The Night before Christmas, and more.

Four Great Americans by James Baldwin

Little Women

 Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

 Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Haaren

 Famous Men of Rome by John Haaren

 The Story of Rome by Mary Macgregor

Here is a link that a fellow homeschool mom shared and thought I'd pass it along.  It has 12 downloadable phonics books for free of course.  There is 2 more coming at the end of the month.   I've looked over a couple but have not checked them all out yet.  http://www.progressivephonics.com/download_p2.htm

Here you can download the first 10 Progressive Phonics books for free.  There are a total of 12 books.  All they ask is that you email them with comments about your experience with the books.  This is a limited time offer so if this changes and they are no longer free would you please let me know so I can remove this link.  Thanks.

http://www.progressivephonics.com/download_p1.htm

5 phonics software programs to download for free

http://www.schoolexpress.com/compsoft/software07.php

Phonics worksheets – blends, consonants, digraphs, vowels

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/cat.php?id=2254

Tons of phonics worksheets

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/phonics/

Phonics worksheets by Reading Target

http://www.readingtarget.com/

Phonics worksheets

http://www.tampareads.com/readingwall/student/index.htm

Downloads, articles, demos, easy reader books, and more

http://www.readinglesson.com/goodys.htm

Several free phonics worksheets

http://www.genkienglish.net/phonicsws.htm

Dolch reading list

http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html

Different blend worksheets to print

http://www.sunshine.co.nz/nz/kia/actshts/index.html

Articles, lesson plans, activities, and online activities for teaching phonics

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4494

Various worksheets – short vowels, beginning sounds, letter recognition, and more.

http://www.beginningreading.com/Free%20Workshe.htm

Between the Lions offers stories, games, things to print, and songs

http://pbskids.org/lions/index.html

6 different vowel worksheet

http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Worksheets/worksheets.html

Tons of phonics worksheets

http://www.tampareads.com/phonics/phonicsindex.htm

Sight word list

http://www.janbrett.com/games/jan_brett_dolch_word_list_main.htm

Words and Pictures – online games and things to print and do

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml

When I read bookmarks with prompts

http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/carl/Document/Teacher%20Towne/WhenIReadBookmark.pdf

This site just has loads of worksheets, and links to online games

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/SRW.htm

Phonics posters

http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/posters/

Phonics games to print and use

http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/room1/index.html

And some more dealing with sight words

http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/room2/index.html

And more reading games

http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/room3/index.html

Short vowel posters

http://www.beginningreading.com/Short%20Vowel%20Posters.htm

Dolch sight word games

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1224.html

Dolch sight word flash cards

http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten.htm

Several different phonics worksheets

http://www.starfall.com/n/N-info/level-a.htm

Phonics tool kit

http://www.sites4teachers.com/links/redirect.php?url=http://doe.state.in.us/publications/pdf_phonics/phonics061400.pdf

Phonics worksheets

http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/phonics/

Here you’ll find a list of phonics rules and other stuff

http://www.edsanders.com/phonics/

Here you’ll find phonics charts, word list, and booklets to download

http://www.boostforreaders.com/

All kinds of stuff for learning blends

http://teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/carl/blends_boulevard.htm

This site has so many links you are sure to find what you’re looking for

http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/teachers/worksheets.html

3 online books for grade 1 – Trip to Fox Mountain, Stop that Bus, Lost on Fox Hill

http://www.tampareads.com/books-ol/index-ol.htm

15 different books to download and print – good for young kids

http://www.starfall.com/n/N-info/onlinebooks.htm

More than 2000 classic texts – from what I’ve seen they are complete

http://www.bibliomania.com/

The complete works of William Shakespeare

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Western and cowboy poetry

http://www.cowboypoetry.com/

The Cranky Librarian has 2581 books that you can read online.  The chapters appear on the left side of the page and you just click on those.

http://crankylibrarian.com/

I just kind of happened upon this site tonight.  Wow! Is the only word I can use to describe it.  It has 80,000 free e-books listed.  There are a total of 120,000 but some cost a little. 

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm

This site offers short fiction, poetry, novels, and magazines

http://eserver.org/fiction/

Here you’ll find a variety of books.  They have age ratings and some come with worksheets and lessons.

http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

This site offers several books for youth, reference, and much more.

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html

Here you’ll find Holiness e-books, Christian e-books, Methodist, History and Reference, and Papers.  There is a dark black line that runs down the middle of the page but I think they are trying to give the illusion of an open book.  A little annoying though.

http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/indexebooks.htm

Great Books Reading list

http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/indexebooks.htm

Free story downloads –

http://www.storyplus.com/FreeStoriesList.asp

Readers Theater downloadable

http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?name=Downloads&req=viewdownload&cid=7

I use it  for reading comprehension with my children.  It's free to use.  They have a huge list of books to chose from (you'll have to get them from your local library) and then when your child is done reading it there is a test to take.  I find it useful, that's one less thing I have to do.

http://www.bookadventure.com/

  These are a few sites that you can download or read the books for free.

Aesop's Fables

http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

http://hca.gilead.org.il/

30 different downloadable books (different languages and reading levels)

http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/tour/tour7.html

   Here are a couple of links for learning to read.  They are mostly phonics based with some sight word usage.  I have used these to help supplement my sons' learning to read programs.

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.readingbysix.com/

http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/tour/tour7.html