AGE LEVEL
3 and 4 year-olds
GENRE
Web Site
REVIEW
Storyline Online is a Web site hosted by the Screen Actors Guild on which well-known performers of all ages such as Betty White, James Earl Jones, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Woods, and several others read picture books aloud. A sampling of the books read include: Brave Irene, by William Steig; The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg; Romeow and Drooliet, by Nina Laden; among twenty others. Several of the picture books are appropriate for very young children, and the fact that most of the performers read the works with excitement, inflection, and at a comfortably easy pace accentuates this. The backdrops behind the readers are living room scenes familiar to most young children. Each story video possesses a good balance between shots of the book itself and of the reader. This site will be fun for children and also a good model for parents of read-aloud techniques in action. Each story also includes links to related activities and an activity guide. One drawback of the site is the difficulty of navigating back to the homepage after each story is finished. Parents will definitely need to assist their children throughout their use of this site. Yet, this does not take away from the fact that this is a valuable resource.
LIBRARY PROGRAMMING IDEAS
This site could be included on a library pathfinder of electronic resources for young children.
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