Edit: March 2020
With the recent developments around the COVID-19 virus and school closures I wanted to re-share this post with free online reading options for French Immersion, FSL, or any French language learners with parents who might be struggling for educational online content. The original post is from 2018, so if you have come across more options or find any broken links please leave a comment below.

Bonne lecture & stay healthy everyone!

Some of my other posts that may be of interest for home e-learning fun include:

• Digital Geo Tools
• Digital FSL Resources Page
• Online Escape Games for Students
• Là où je dors – An Interactive Website and Videos for FSL
• Google Drawings 101

— Original post:

With the addition of technology in schools, these days teacher’s classroom libraries are changing. Teachers who don’t have many physical books at their disposal have so many free options at their fingertips through digital books and online reading. I often get questions from French teachers about where to find free digital books and online reading for FSL (French Immersion, Extended and Core French programs). I’ve been curating resources for some time and have created this list to make it easy for teachers to find quality internet accessible French reading resources. Please see my list of online books and stories below, I will continue adding to it as I find great resources. The list is in no particular order, however, the more comprehensive ones with teacher management options can be found at the very bottom. 

Free Digital Books and Online Reading for FSL:

EBook Kids: http://ebookids.com/fr/ (56 books)

Jeunes Banq: http://jeunes.banq.qc.ca/pj/ecouter/raconte/?fbclid=IwAR2bfinqD4pMfwtiQVjOwXv8NcTpJjbzEOk6STW6H_5bxF7utu_xWGRIJNk (191 books)
Listening only no images of pages.

Je Lis Online Audio Readers: (Links are for 20 free demo readers)
https://jelis.rkpublishing.com/demo-readers

Il était une histoire: https://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/

EDU365: http://www.edu365.cat/primaria/contes/contesfrances/tria_conte.htm

Scholastic:
http://www.scholastic.ca/education/envol_en_litteratie/downloadablebooks.html?fbclid=IwAR2mS2OvHgWIMwM9M7Jo83DB2ysecdzJ5A1SyYYK8gBRqYdjeLxMPVgvVSI (Free printable or read online PDFs)

Children’s Books Forever:
http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/childrenpages/French.html (free printable or read online PDFs)

Litterature jeunesse libre: http://www.litterature-jeunesse-libre.fr/bbs/ (free printable or read online PDFs)

Livres pour tous:
Bande dessinées: http://www.livrespourtous.com/e-books/list/onecat/Livres-electroniques+Bandes-dessinees/0/all_items.html (free printable BDs or read online PDFs)
Jeunesse: http://www.livrespourtous.com/e-books/list/onecat/Livres-electroniques+Jeunesse/0/all_items.html

Whisperies: https://www.whisperies.com/catalogue (reads aloud and some have moving images)

The Fable Cottage: https://www.thefablecottage.com/french 

The French Experiment:
https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/stories?fbclid=IwAR134WOSqsh-to-HpjxjcmVJCmluuCk-p7SmwLZo6kT-D7myfW5z-pdRD_w (audio only books)

Organisation Internationale de la francophonie: https://crefeco.org/display.php?fr/Activit%C3%A9s/500 (audio -click on “séquence audio”)

3 Large Symbaloo Collections of French online stories, readers, and audiobooks: http://seduc.csdecou.qc.ca/5-au-quotidien/ateliers-tic-ecouter-la-lecture/?fbclid=IwAR1NW7pat63-LuNJqPREGt627-1EExfpSdwdsYNH_p6LDQPnBox8VFtXFUs

Internationitonal Children’s Digital Library: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ids=&pnum=1&cnum=1&text=&lang=French&ilangcode=fr&ilang=French&langid=12

Story Weaver: https://storyweaver.org.in/stories?language=French&query=&sort=Relevance (471 audio stories)

Conte-Moi: https://www.conte-moi.net/lecture (audio books)

1Jour1Actu: https://www.1jour1actu.com/ Daily news stories for children with an interactive quiz after each one.

Online FSL Reading with Teacher Management Features:

Boukili : Free illustrated children’s books in French

• • Brought to you by Groupe Média TFO.

• • A 54-book collection that supports online reading for ages 4+.

• • You need a free account to access this site.

• • Interactive reading for students with narration or solo reading options.

• • Teacher dashboard to help manage your student progress and guide their choices.

• Includes mini-games, quizzes and students can even create an avatar.
• Has an iPad app.

Teachers visit: www.boukili.ca  Student login visit: https://app.boukili.ca/enfants

Lalilo: Free K-2 Literacy Software Program

• • Supports early literacy development through interactive exercises.

• • You need a free account to access this site. Teachers, students or parents can join.

• • Includes instruction across all components of literacy, including phonological and phonemic awareness, letter and word recognition, comprehension and fluency, vocabulary, writing, and more.

• • Has a teacher portal to track progress, data and even to help with planning. You can even test the activities before assigning them to students.

• Uses AI to sequence lessons and content levels to ensure that students are working on developmentally appropriate exercises custom for individual needs.

Visit: https://www.lalilo.com/

Infos-jeunes: Junior Level Online Reading Platform (free for Ontario Educators)

• • Weely relevant news articles for grades 3 and up with social studies focus.

• • You need a free account to access this site. Currently free for Ontario educators. 

• • Teacher dashboard to help manage your student progress and even self-grading quizzes for each of the articles.

• • Options to download and print PDFs of the articles.

• • Built-in audio so students can listen as they read.

• Built-in dictionaries right next to the articles.
• Here’s a French media lesson I built around a Pink Day article from Infos-jeunes.

Visit: https://www.infos-jeunes.com/

If you find any others that should be added to the list please reach out. Happy online reading!