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About:
As we know it is important for us to read to our students. Students hear us read to them everyday. Do you ever feel like you would like to have someone else read to your students? Well guess what! Now you can! Storyline Online has well known actors and actresses read children’s books with graphically dramatic videos with just the click of a button!
Pros:
This site can help your students become excited about listening to stories. This would be something that I think I could use during snack time or during a transition time. I feel that I could create lessons around the books listed on the site.
Cons:
There are not very many books listed on the website to listen to. Students also might not know who the people are reading the story. However, we could learn more about the actors and actresses before listening to the story.
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Standards:
RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
RL. 3.3 Describe characters in a story (their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
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Educational Uses/Assessment
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While studying characters, students could pick a book listed on this website and create character webs about the characters in the story they chose to listen to.
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Students could write in their journal about what they feel the message or moral of the story was that they just listened to.
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There are many more uses for this website in the classroom, however, I listed two different lesson ideas to go with the standards I chose.
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