Recently I’ve been completing my teaching internship (the final step in my education degree!), and the teacher whose class I’m in has introduced me to a great website, Storyline Online. Storyline Online is an initiative by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, hoping to give children easy access to quality literature.
On the website you are able to watch any of the videos for free, and view resources that can be used to plan lessons around the videos. There are 24 stories available which add to a total of 3.5 hours of videos! And these are quality stories, including The Rainbow Fish, Stellaluna and The Polar Express. All read by (somewhat) well know actors including Elijah Wood, Hector Elizondo and Hayley Duff.
All of the stories are read expressively and clearly, and accompanied not only by animated pictures from the books, but also by text so that you can read along as you watch them.
As a teacher, I can say that this website has been a great way to constantly and easily expose my students to the quality reading of quality literature. And I’m sure that it would be great for parents, as it is yet another source of educational entertainment.
Definitely worth checking out.
Below is an example of one of the videos. Hope you find the site to be a helpful resource!
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