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What is www.speakaboos.com? Speakaboos is first and foremost a website that reads books aloud with a movie visual. These stories are read by celebrities. These stories also have accompanying material; things like work sheets, games and lesson plans. Speakaboos material is mostly geared towards children from 4 to 8 years of age. Speakaboos' also has it's own blog for teachers and parents, an iphone app, karaoke sing-alongs, and a section about the solar system.

Advantages: -The search option is very precise. You can search by genre, author, speaker, or difficulty of book -Lots of free content -The stories have subtitles -Many different genres of books, including some tailored towards ethnic minorities -the website has a good layout. The stories are organized well. -Speakaboos is a safe website for children to browse on.

Disadvatages: -Sound can be at different volumes for different stories -To have access to everything, you must pay a monthly fee -Every story does not have a lesson plan, worksheets, ect to got with it -Most of the accompanying material would only be appropriate for pre-k

How to use Speakaboos in your classroom -Play the story for all students to hear at the same time. -Good for children who have trouble reading text. -Speakaboos boasts 30 lesson plans. These lesson plans look useful. They have questions on many different levels of Blooms taxonomy. The lesson plans could be great post reading activities. -The other material could be good for pre-k classrooms Similar products - Storyline Online Have better visuals and more famous actors Less organizations and educational lessons Tumble book library