The sixth and final site I chose to review for my ILA Newsletter is Free Children Stories, https://www.freechildrenstories.com/. I chose this site because it is a e-library with a large collection of stories to choose from.
One of the great things about this website is that it
is completely free. Students and users are able to peruse through all the books
without having to pay a subscription fee or any other kind of fee. The website
is also incredibly user-friendly. There are only a few tabs at the top and
users can scroll down to view other resources and interesting books.
Another strength that this website has is the filters
it provides for sifting through its large selection of books. There are filters
that filter books relative to the users age so this makes finding appropriate
books for students very efficient. There are also fun filters like rhyming
stories and non-rhyming stories if there are certain activities that a teacher
is planning for his or her class.
As a reading resource, I believe this website is a
valuable one because it has an updated list of fan favorite stories of the week
and a list of the most popular books in the library. Another really amazing
function this site provides is a list of languages that the stories could be
translated in for audio use. I believe this function would be so valuable
especially when teaching English Language Learner students who are not
comfortable reading in English yet. This allows students to view the story in English
while listening to it in their home country’s language. Finally, there is also
a YouTube playlist of their books so students that are still learning fluency,
can have the stories modeled and read for them.
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