Electronic Books/Audio/ Talking Books/ Read Alongs/UTubes
Electronic books/talking books are a great surrogate but nothing can take the place of teachers reading to their
students and a loving mother, father, or caregiver sitting next to their child reading and interacting with their child.
Along the right side of the page are other Read Alongs by the same authors.
Electronic Books - Talking Books
Tips There is a time and place for electronic text; electronic text should not replace independent reading. Electronic text can serve as good surrogates for the teacher or parent who can not read to the children at a particular time. They are especially useful for beginning readers and the learning disabled. Children can pursue their interests via stories that are too difficult to read independently. The recorded stories not only captive the students’ interest but model for them the rhythm and expression of the English language, expand their vocabulary, and indirectly develop an understanding of the structure of various genre.
Besides providing multi-sensory features, there is the option with CD-ROMs and Online stories for further support. The reader can either have the entire story read to him/her or only words and sentences that have been highlight because of their difficulty. Having a highlighted word or sentence read to the student helps with continuity. They do not have to stop and decode which could break their trend of thought.
✴Audio- Taped Books Research studies have found positive effects from the use of audio taped books
You Tube
Storyline Online Famous Actors & Actresses Read Books Countless books listed including the reader, run time , and grade level suggested
•Read Aloud Books on U TubeSkip ad; look to the right side-bar for many books on U Tube
★A Sick Day for Amos McGee UTube
★My Five Senses You Tube
★Very Busy Spider- a read along
★ Click Clack Moo- a story to watch and listen to
★Caps for Sale- listen to and follow pictues
★Empty Pot by Demi
★Go Dog Go story teller
★Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle U Tube ( Click on ad to skip it)
★If You Give a Pig a Pancake illust. with text
★The House in the Night-Caldecott
★The House in the Night UTube
★Jump, Frog, Jump UTube
★Corduroy - a listen to story while looking at the pictures
★Doctor DeSoto - listen to story while looking at the pictures
★Three Pigs listen to story while looking at the pictures
★The Little Mouse, The Red-Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear You Tube
★Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone
★Just Grandma and Me Living Books - You Tube Don’t Miss / Read in English, Japanese, & Spanish
★Chicka Chicka Boom Boom /Follow words with music in the background
★Chick Chicka Boom Boom Read along
★The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsbug, Illust.Jose Aruego U Tube
★The Three Pigs eBook with words
★Lion and the Mouse no print, pictures tell the story along with jungle music
★Little Red Riding Hood Story teller - no text
★ Little David and the Purple Crayon UTube story teller
•Mary Wore Her Red Dress - YouTube
★House in the Night great background music, student reads Don’t Miss
★Snowmen at Night UTube
★The Relatives Came - read along
★Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin by Lloyd Moss...You tube
Electronic /Digital Books
example of what can be done at home and in the classroom to make stories available.
Scaredy Squirrel was purchased via iTunes under Book Search in a matter of minutes.
When Jeanine was asked what she was reading to her children she immediately took an iPad, downloaded a story and read it. Spontaneously the Flip started recording- nothing was planned.
The dramatic, creative reading was posted because it can serve as an incentive to be expressive. Listening to digital stories can develop the sense of story structure. Listening and following along with the text encourages fluency as well as reading above one’s readability level.
Earphones can be used with the iPad to listen to digital books while the teacher is busy with another guided reading group.
When teachers read to their class, they may want to think of recording the reading - or place a camcorder on a tri-pod for a video. Those stories can then be made available for the students in the Learning Center, classroom library and even UTube. Because the recording of Scaredy Squirrel was too large to place on this page I placed it on UTube which is a free service.
✤Tell Me a Story King County Library System 1756 poems and songs accompanied with videos and story Reading Aloud to Build Comprehension/LDOnline
Consider tapping into your local library for On- Line books and electronic books
Anyone with a library card can open up an account and download (take out a book). One only needs a special app to do it. You return the books with the same app with which you downloaded it. Click on the link below for more information.
Some of Matias’ library-.
Revisited4/5/23
