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Staff development Holyoke Elementary School
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E-books yea or nay?
OAre electronic picture books good for kids, and can they get them hooked on reading by expanding access to engaging titles?
OOr are digital books one more step down that slippery slope to less and less interaction with print just when children need it most?
School Library Journal, 2011
O The results are remarkable, she says. The students using Tumblebooks leapt ahead of their peers. Last November, three months after starting the project, the average fluency rate for the Tumblebook group was 23 percentage points higher than that of the control group. Students using the ebooks had moved from a Lexile level of K to M. By January, the entire group of children in the ebook program had achieved fluency to the point that they were “exited” from her pull-out sessions and integrated back into their regular classrooms. It took the control group two months longer. She credits the success to the ebooks’ ability to narrate the story, while allowing students to feel like they’re in control of what and when they read. “When students repeatedly have a strong model of fluency, the more they hear that, the better they get it,” says Hume. The experiment was so successful that her school district decided to pay for Tumblebooks for all four of its elementary schools in the next school year.
Using E-books in the Classroom
O Reading Center O remediation, enrichment, fluency practice …
O Compare/ContrastO Sponge ActivityO AR points for kids with no one at home to read
withO Enrichment on a topic of studyO Indoor recessO Holiday Literature
Free Collections of E-books
O TumblebooksO We Give Books (Pearson Foundation)O Story Line Online (Actor’s Guild)O International Children’s Digital LibraryO MeeGeniusO Fables & Fairytales websitesO Misc. Online Stories for ChildrenO Tween Tribune – Online Newspaper for Kids
Tumblebooks
O Animated, talking picture books -- with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles,
O Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation)
O TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.
O A growing selection of Tumblebooks are available for iPad.
TumblebooksO Tumblebooks are “checked out” from
a library. Therefore you must first visit the library website and then follow their link to the Tumblebook library.
We Give BooksPearson Foundation
• Notice the Resources for
Educators at the bottom
of the page.
We Give Books This Year’s programs to encourage
reading
Fall - Read for the record
Winter - Read to donate books to those in need
Spring – Donate books to schools
Summer - reading program – features a different book every week for 10 weeks
Story Line Online
Storyline Online is a literacy program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation
Celebrities read stores aloud to share their passion for reading
International Children’sDigital Library
The ICDL collection includes 4642 books in 61 languages
International Children’sDigital Library
A fundamental principle of the Foundation is that children and their families deserve to have access to the books of their culture, as well as the majority culture, regardless of where they live.
The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.
Visit Mrs. Loutensock’s Start Page to see more
online story sources
Online Newspapers for Kids
TTJunior
Tween
Tribune
Teen Tribune
Tween Tribune is a free, not-for-profit online newspaper for kids, aged 8–15. It is updated daily with stories from the Associated Press that are chosen based on relevancy to pre-adolescents.
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