Books
Online Book Resources for children’s literacy and numeracy
Story time for Kids in YouTube featuring storybook of Clicker the Cat - technology usage in wonderful storytelling to manage screen time and to encourage online safety behavior.
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On top of that, I choose applications that encourage listening and reading with imagination on screens. The websites as per follows:
Story line Online is an award winning children literacy website and it streams videos featuring Hollywood actress and celebrities read aloud children’s books with animated pictures in their own voice.
Mrs. P. Magic Library is a site where Kathy Kinney stars as Mrs. P. sits on her couch reading children classic book aloud. There is also read along options.
Storynory is wonderful online audio resources with hundreds of podcast filled with stories and poems for children and family.
International Children’s Digital Library is to provide free access to children’s literature from around the world. The site stocked children’s books from different country and it supports few international languages. A free registration will allow user to save books, set preferred language and bookmark pages to come back later.
Fun Brain provides great selections of free books, games and videos for children’s entertainment.
Storyplace is a virtual environment for learning by listening to children’s stories in Spanish or in English. User can also explore games and activities. The online stories are animated and interactive with its own “theme” and it is supported with take home activities and a reading list.
Oxford Owl is a one stop resource for children’s books and other reading activities created by Oxford University Press. There are free teaching resources such as storytelling videos, eBooks and downloadable worksheets with teaching notes available.
Free Kids Books is a simple site with free downloadable books in PDF format.
Into the Book is all about learning reading strategies from summarizing, questioning, evaluating, prior knowledge, synthesizing, making connections and inferring. It provides interactive learning which you need to draw to visualize and then at the end, they will run the video based on your drawing with voice recording providing facts about your chosen “educational theme”.
Open Library is part of the Internet Archive with many of copies are scanned from the original editions.
Discover Water is interactive website to learn about water.
Readings that require subscriptions are as follows:
Starfall is an interactive website filled with songs, readings and teaching resources.
National Geographic for Kids- Excellent magazine to subscribe
Here is the printout in pdf file of our Facebook account
Kindle App for any online E-Books
https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Kindle-eBooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=155009011
References:
Batsu, S. (2018). The 10 Best Sites for Reading Free Children’s Books and Stories Online.
Extracted from https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-websites-reading-childrens-stories-online/
Storytime for Kids by Ms. Kayla (2019, January 31). Clicker the Cat and Clicker the Internet Detective Safety book for kids
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb_Y4P8qrN2we8VLwgKQerg
Fun Brain Retrieved from https://www.funbrain.com/books
Discover Water
retrieved from http://www.discoverwater.org/?fbclid=IwAR180KKsxY5Nh51lRmCYQHP_D8g8ta-TCwUSyZKcsmIBVZFJlaX9xD_4BOs
Starfall
https://www.starfall.com/h/index-kindergarten.php
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Into the Book
https://reading.ecb.org/student/visualizing/index.html
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National Geographics for Kids