I would like to share the website BookPALS Storyline Online (http://www.storylineonline.net/) with this class. This website is an online streaming video program sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation (SAG). SAG members, such as Al Gore, Elijah Wood, Lou Diamond Phillips, Melissa Gilbert and Amanda Bynes, participate by reading picture books that are video streamed. Several books to “watch” include Brave Irene, by William Steig, Knots On A Rope, by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault, and The Night I Followed The Dog, by Nina Laden. This site caught my attention because it demonstrates fluent reading to the audience, is interactive, and can easily be aligned with state standards. Children are provided the opportunity to hear books by popular authors that are being read by famous people they recognize.
This website is best suited for early childhood students due to the usability, quality of engaging literature available, and the modeling techniques provided by the SAG reader. The viewer has the opportunity to follow captions below the video while the SAG member reads. Teachers, librarians and parents are provided related activities for each picture book. These activities may include art, writing, math, science, social studies and higher level thinking skills. This site would provide a great listening center for an elementary classroom. Students may practice strategies such as fluency and analyzing characters.
The BookPALS Storyline online is a free site and does not require any type of registration (other than an optional newsletter). The main computer component is the Flash Plug-in which is an essential tool to acquire the video streaming. This site offers help with navigation and streaming.
For more information, please go to http://www.storylineonline.net/.
This website is best suited for early childhood students due to the usability, quality of engaging literature available, and the modeling techniques provided by the SAG reader. The viewer has the opportunity to follow captions below the video while the SAG member reads. Teachers, librarians and parents are provided related activities for each picture book. These activities may include art, writing, math, science, social studies and higher level thinking skills. This site would provide a great listening center for an elementary classroom. Students may practice strategies such as fluency and analyzing characters.
The BookPALS Storyline online is a free site and does not require any type of registration (other than an optional newsletter). The main computer component is the Flash Plug-in which is an essential tool to acquire the video streaming. This site offers help with navigation and streaming.
For more information, please go to http://www.storylineonline.net/.
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