Spotlight on Sources:
Welcome to Renzulli Learning’s Spotlight on Sources, some of our most engaging resources to excite and inspire your students!
One of our favorite tools in Renzulli Learning is the student journal! You can assign reading journals in Renzulli Learning to help students process their experience with reading!
In My Enrichment Activities, students can explore thousands of books, including ebooks! Renzulli Learning is here to connect your students to ebooks to spark their passions and interests.
Looking for additional Ebooks?
Check out this list of Awesome E-Books in the Enrichment Database:
- - Lit2go – Classic Literature
- - Turning the Pages – British Museum
- - Room Recess – Fiction/Non-Fiction) This site offers the Lexile level, word count, a printable version of the story, story questions and a vocabulary activity.
- - Storyline – Stories read by members of the Actor Guild
To locate these activities within Renzulli Learning:
Under the 'Teach' navigation, click 'Search'.
On the Search page, type in the title of the activity you would like to locate.
For more ideas to infuse enrichment activities with your curriculum, please visit the Unit Supplements on the Teacher Site, under “Teach.” We can also link these enrichment resources to your regular curriculum if you send us a theme or topic.
K-2
Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. Yong
Ebooks
Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.
NASA-Adventures in Aeronautics Storybook (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Ebooks
Aeronautics is just a big word that means any type of aircraft. Have you ever flown in an airplane? Do you know how we came to have airplanes? Did you know scientists and engineers are working on an airplane that can be packed into a spaceship? Wow! So much to learn!
Storyline Online: Strega Nona Read Aloud
Ebooks
Strega Nona – “Grandma Witch” – is the source for potions, cures, magic and comfort in her Calabrian town. Her magical ever-full pasta pot is especially intriguing to hungry Big Anthony. He is supposed to look after her house and tend her garden, but one day, when she goes over the mountain to visit Strega Amelia, Big Anthony recites the magic verse over the pasta pot, with disastrous results.
3-5
The Secret Garden
Ebooks
Listen to this famous story about a lonely girl in a house filled with secrets. You can read along, or just close your eyes and picture the events.
Black Beauty
Ebooks
What would it be like to see the world, and human behavior, from a horse's point of view? Read along, or simply listen, as Black Beauty tells his tale.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Ebooks
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a compendium of stories that re-tells some of his most famous plays.The plays retold here range across the Great Tragedies like King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello. One of the most appealing features of Nesbit's retelling is that she retains the atmosphere and milieu of the plays while she makes the text simpler for children to understand. In Macbeth for instance, the witches, the crimes and the final tragic climax are superbly recreated. A lighter note is struck in plays like A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night where all Shakespeare's wit and talent for creating comic situations is brought out. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare contains twenty stories and they are so attractively presented that both young and old readers alike can enjoy them. For younger readers, they would be a great stepping-stone to go on and read the magnificent plays in their original form.
6-9
Ebooks
Listen to this amusing fantasy about a girl who travels down a rabbit-hole. If you wish, you can read along with the narrator.
Ebooks
Pirates, mutiny, and buried treasure are all part of this classic adventure. Read along with the narrator, or just listen to the story.
Ebooks
Phileas Fogg is about to take the adventure of a lifetime... around the world in 80 days! So, the question is: why stay home when you can join him? Download this classic tale and visit the places you imagine as well as parts of the globe you may not even know exist!
10-12
Ebooks
Listen to Francis Barton Gummere's 1910 translation of the great Anglo-Saxon epic.
Ebooks
As revolution creates upheaval in France, a group of people must decide what is most important in life. Read along with the narrator, or just listen to the story.
Ebooks
Listen as this great romantic tragedy is read aloud. You may wish to follow along with the narrator.
Thanks for being a part of the Renzulli Learning family and we hope you find these resources helpful.
Your Renzulli Learning Team