Storyline-Online is a website sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild. The website is designed to read stories aloud to children. The stories are read by actors such as Melissa Gilbert and James Earl Jones. As the stories are read aloud, the pictures are displayed.
The site provides activities for students that lend themselves to the readings. Moreover, the read-alouds are played on youtube, but if your school blocks youtube; the site offers an alternate link which will allow you to play the video in school.
English Language Learners benefit from the site in that they are able to listen to a story in the target language, even though they cannot read it themselves. Moreover, as an English Language Learner educator; the site is ideal to display on the smartboard for a read aloud.
The site is very user-friendly and easy to navigate, a child can easily log in and select the book that they would like to listen to. Storyline online is also very colorful and fun to look at; motivating children to read.
The only criticism I have is that there isn't a wide variety of stories to choose from.
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