Fault in Our Stars, The : John Green Author John Green Biography: John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan), and The Fault in Our Stars. His many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. Narrator Kate Rudd Biography: Kate Rudd, winner of the 2013 Audie and Odyssey Awards for her narration of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and multiple Audiofile Magazine Earphones award recipient, has narrated over 250 titles across a variety of genres.
Paperbacks & Collections Kids Who Read Succeedby Linda Cornwell Kids need to read a lot. Time spent reading is important. Kids need access to engaging classroom and school library media center collections. Kids need to be exposed to a variety of genres and authors, as well as to materials they find relevant and engaging. Kids need choice in selecting books appropriate to their independent reading levels. To practice their reading skills, kids need to spend the majority of their daily reading time with engaging books they can read with accuracy and success; thus, kids need to read materials of their own choosing every day. Kids need to be read aloud to every day. Kids need to hear fluent readers read. Kids need positive reading role models. Kids need to know that adults value reading and read for a variety of purposes themselves. Kids need to engage in a variety of reading activities every day. Not all kids enter the reading process through the same "door." Kids need to talk with others about what they are reading.
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Roald Dahl The Witches 1 of 4 | Tune.pk Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 10 Great Places to Find and Access Quality Audiobooks to Use with Your Students January 31, 2017 Audiobooks are a great way to help nurture kids love for reading and develop their reading skills. Audiobooks can also help with other skills including writing, communication, and sequential thinking. In today’s post we are providing you with an updated list of some great places where you find and access tons of free(and pro) audiobooks to use with your kids and students. 1- MeeGenius MeeGenius offers a library of over 700 children’s books. 2- Storynory Storynory is another awesome platform that provides a wide variety of audiobooks. 3- Storyline Online Storyline Online ‘ records well-known actors reading children’s books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can be read to with just the click of a Storyline Online video book image.’ 4- Loyal Books Loyal Books (former Books Should Be Free0 provides access to a huge library of free public daomi audiobooks and ebooks. 5- Children's Storybooks 6- Unite for Literacy 7- Lite2Go 8- LibriVox
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Chapter One: 'The Boy Who Lived' | Wizarding World DanielDaniel Radcliffe reads the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone, as part of Harry Potter At Home. Look out for more special video readings in the upcoming weeks. Daniel will be the first of many exciting contributors to help us read through the first Harry Potter book, as he introduces the Dursleys, who don’t like anything mysterious. Enter a cat reading a map, owl-filled skies and whispers about the Potters. Looks like those mischievous Cornish Pixies have caused an error. Register now to get the latest announcements from the Harry Potter Fan Club Newsletter. Look out for more famous faces and friends of the Wizarding World (and beyond!) If you're ready for Chapter Two, read by Noma Dumezweni, step this way. And for all of our chapters so far, you can find them here. You may notice some wonderful drawings representing the first chapter during the read-through. Chapter One: ‘The Boy Who Lived’ – Further reading and new activities