Monday, March 16, 2020

Storytime for teachers? Or consider making suggestions for your students' parents and guardians!




Storyline Online



Need some help at bedtime? Let Betty White, Al Gore, Lily Tomlin, Kristen Bell, and many others help you out! 

Here are two of SO many more:


A Tale of Two Beasts


  • Written by: Fiona Roberton
  • Illustrated by: Fiona Roberton
  • Published by: Kane Miller Books
  • Read by: Sarah Silverman
  • Suggested grade level: 1st - 3rd
  • Run time: 7 minutes


A Bad Case of Stripes


  • Written by: David Shannon
  • Illustrated by: David Shannon
  • Published by: Blue Sky Press
  • Read by: Sean Astin
  • Suggested grade level: 2nd - 3rd
  • Run time: 12 minutes


 The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

Storyline Online receives over 100 million views annually from children all over the world.

Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals.

Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.

Storyline Online is a program of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on gifts, grants and donations to fund Storyline Online and produce all of its videos.

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