Where to Find Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)
The Indiana Educational Resource Center (IERC) is the agency that assists Indiana’s local education agencies in meeting the NIMAS regulations of the 2004 IDEA reauthorization by securing accessible formats of textbooks and core curriculum materials in a timely manner for students with documented print disabilities. IERC provides a full range of accessible educational materials including Braille, Large Print, and digital textbooks to eligible K-12 students.
Apple Books - eBooks free and paid
Bookshare - People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find books they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Organizations and individuals may register at Bookshare. Watch Getting Started with Bookshare. For people who don’t have a qualifying disability, Bookshare has about 10,000 freely available books published under the public domain or Creative Commons license.
Free
CK-12 Foundation is a California-based non-profit organization that provides free and customizable K-12 open educational resources aligned to state curriculum standards.
Free
Curriki offers educator-vetted, openly licensed, online educational materials for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing through their Library of free and open teaching and learning resources
Free
Epic is the world's leading online children's subscription book service offering immediate, on-demand access to over 40,000 high-quality illustrated books and chapter books for children ages 12 and under. Epic's ever-expanding library also includes thousands of Read-to-Me books, Audiobooks, educational videos, and fun educational quizzes. Partnerships with leading publishers, including HarperCollins and National Geographic, bring age-appropriate, award-winning fiction and non-fiction books to your child's fingertips. During school with Epic School: From 7 am to 4 pm local time M-F, students can log in from anywhere using their class code and read for as long as they want between 7 am to 4 pm. Educators can access Epic School at any time or day. Epic School is always free for our educators. After school with Epic Free: In addition to all the reading time that they get with Epic School, students can also read after school or after 4 pm local time, M-F, for free on Epic Free. Epic Free is also available for students to access at any time on the weekends. But unlike Epic School, there is a time duration limit! Students can read on Epic Free for up to 2 hours per week. Also, students will need their parents’ help to unlock Epic Free with a parent email. Parents only need to provide their email address during the sign-up
Free for teachers
hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics, and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV! With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later. We have hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, with more being added daily. hoopla is like having your public library at your fingertips. (Check your local library to see if this digital option is available)
Free with a library card
Learning Ally - With an extensive library of high-quality, human-read audiobooks, student-centric features, and a suite of teacher resources, our solution provides equitable access to your curriculum in a format struggling readers can easily absorb, allowing them to achieve their academic potential.
Paid for qualifying students
Libby by OverDrive - Borrow and read eBooks and audiobooks from your local public library. (Check your local library to see if this digital option is available)
Free with a library card
LibriVox - Public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world. LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to on their computers, iPods, or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD.
Free
Mackin™ delivers a digital/audio solution for students who require accessible formats of print instructional materials, giving them access to over 70,000 titles including current popular fiction as well as many of the classics.
Paid
OER Commons - (Please note: not all OER is accessible and will need to be checked for accessibility and/or recreated to make it accessible) OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Free
PBS LearningMedia - PBS has curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more.
Free
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free electronic books, or eBooks. Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute literary works. They do not publish any books that still have copyright protection. This generally means that their texts are taken from books published 95+ years ago. This means that you won’t find the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will find the classic books from the start of the 20th century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice’s adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.
Free
ReadWorks - Free library of content, curriculum, and tools. ReadWorks offers richly illustrated eBooks for over 100 of our high-quality passages? And, with the ReadWorks eBooks' read-aloud function, we support readers at all levels!
Free
Story Shares is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization devoted to inspiring reading practice and improving literacy skills. Our library is full of Relevant Reads—books that are both compelling and approachable for struggling teen and young adult readers. The Story Shares digital writing tool enables writers, educators, and students to create and publish Relevant Reads. These books cover a range of age, interest, and reading levels, and are also enhanced with features to make reading more accessible and fun. By leveraging the combined powers of great books and interactive web design, our literacy hub brings together a community to engage and support readers who struggle.
Free
Storytime Online - The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more.
Free
Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces. Each book can be speech-enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, Orbit 20 Braille display, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches.
Free
Teen Book Club - TeenBookCloud is a curated database of e-books and other digital content for Middle Schools and High Schools, as well as Public Libraries. The growing collection features over 1000 titles, including student-favorite Graphic Novels, enhanced e-books with full audio narration and highlighted text, classic literature, and national geographic videos.
Ask your school librarian if your school has a membership
TumbleBookLibrary - TumblePremium collection has over 1100 titles and is perfect for public libraries and elementary schools, with content most appropriate for those in grades K-6. It includes animated talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles, graphic novels, playlists, and books in French and Spanish.
Ask your school librarian if your school has a membership
Unite For Literacy is an online library that provides free access to more than 400 original picture books, one-fourth of them written in Spanish. The digital books provide audio narrations in more than 40 languages, spoken by native speakers in warm, expressive voices. The languages of narration include indigenous and endangered languages along with languages most widely spoken in the US.
Free