5 Apps to Encourage Reading Over the Winter Break

	Goodreads Teens learn by reading books, then forming and sharing opinions in an online setting. By engaging in friendly discourse about books, they'll learn communication skills. They'll be proud to add newly read books to their own online library and talk about their favorites with peers. Read full review.
	The Learning Network The Learning Network is a blog-style website that features New York Times news content. With some guidance, kids can explore and follow and read news articles that interest them. It's a great app to build reading habits by having kids follow current stuff on their favorite topics. Read full review.
	Professor Layton and The Curious Village Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a good, engaging app during the winter break because it's an incredibly fun game, with tons of tricky puzzles that help with analytical skills, and has a good amount of reading as well. And since it's a DS game, kids will love it and it won't feel like schoolwork but a gift. Read full review.
	Subtext Subtext might be the digital reading resource of your dreams. Parents can read a book first and annotate it, or read along with kids and annotate together. It's for tablet only, so parents and kids would need to share one device, but it allows a-temporal dialogue and interaction since parents could leave a note that kids see later during their reading time. Read full review.
	The Sports Network 2 The Sports Network 2 is set in the bustling context of cable sports news, but it's a reading game at heart. It can be used to build reading comprehension, teach core critical and evaluative reading skills, and/or as an introduction to the professional workplace. Read full review. Site link