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Storyline Online

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What is Storyline Online?

Storyline Online is an interactive website designed to increase literacy and bring the excitement of books into the classroom and home using Internet technology.

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What is particular about it?

Storyline Online features videos of well-known actors reading quality children’s literature aloud.

Actors like: Betty White, Tia and Tamara Mowry, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Wood, among others.

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Easy Steps1) Type storylineonline.net in your navigation

bar.

2) Choose a story

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3) Click on «Let’s Read it»

4) Choose your Internet connection speed

Easy Steps (cont.)

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Easy Steps (cont.)

5) Enjoy reading with your students!

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What are the benefits?

Storyline Online is user friendly. It makes reading fun for yong ESL students. It helps provides auditory input as well as written

words and visual images of the story. It uses the Internet so students can read the stories

at home. Each book comes with accompanying activities,

lesson ideas for teachers, and the story in a printable (.pdf) format.

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What are the drawbacks?

The speed at which the stories are being read may be too fast for low proficiency ESL students.

Unfortunately, if you do not have an internet connection, you cannot use the program.

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Conclusion

Storyline Online is an excellent resource for ESL teachers because it is specifically designed to increase literacy and bring the excitement of books back into the classroom (or even home) taking into consideration today’s technological generation.

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For more information on Storyline Online:

Visit the Storyline Online Homepage - http://storylineonline.net/

Visit Screen Actors Guild Foundation - http://www.sagfoundation.org/

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Created by:

Jeschelly GonzálezTESL Master Program

Inter American University At San German, Puerto Rico

[email protected]

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