Tapping the Potential of Audiobooks
Although audiobooks have been around for a long time in cassette and CD formats, the popularity of the iPod and other MP3 players has vastly expanded the availability and appeal of using audio to enhance instruction and improve literacy.Audio Book Options Have Grown
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Joyce Kasman Valenza describes the benefits of using audiobooks in the
classroom. Included are online sources for downloading audio content.
Louder, Please
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA512550.html
Barbara Wysocki describes exemplary uses of audiobooks for children at
different stages of development, from preschool through grade 8.
Audio Books Can Be a Great Learning Tool
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05318/606016.stm
Karen MacPherson explains how the use of audiobooks can be a terrific
tool for literacy instruction.
AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2005
http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/best_of_2005.html
The editors of AudioFile magazine have selected 38 must-hear audiobooks.
All are intimate, amazing, and unforgettable audio performances
representing the best of what the medium can do.
Great Audiobooks for Kids
http://www.kidsreads.com/features/0529-audio.asp
The Kidsreads staff lists more than a dozen excellent audiobooks with
high “kid appeal”.
