Natasha Aguon

Effective Literacy Website #2

ED 638

Storyline Online is a website that posts videos of actors reading children’s books with fun animated illustrations.  Storyline has over 5 million views a month and is an award winning literacy website.  The readers are able to capture the audience and create an interactive storytelling experience.

Storyline is available anywhere in the world and at anytime.   The best part is that this online learning tool is free!  Storyline is a non-profit organization that gets its funding through grants and donations. Schools, hospitals and homes are using this website to help kids with basic communication and reading skills.  This website has hundreds of books ranging for pre-k through 5^th grade.

What is wonderful about this website is that it has activity guides for both teachers and parents.   Some stories are common core state standard aligned and provides the standards and the questions that is needed to be asked.  The guide also tells the teacher when to ask these questions and the objective to the lesson.  The guide also lists the materials needed for the activities.  How awesome is that?

I highly recommend teachers to use this website as an awesome instructional tool in their classroom.  Students will have so much fun watching an online streaming read-aloud and doing the activities that go with the story.  Every child may not be able to read but every child loves to be read too. This website is one that I love to use in my class.