IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #4

The website Storynory (https://www.storynory.com) is a website that contains many free read aloud stories for grades K-8^th grade. The literacy website provides a various amount of stories that can be used to help teach reading in the classroom. Storynory is a great tool to use for children who are beginning readers. It can also be used to help English Language Learners. The audio books are provided in the website. The audio read alouds are downloadable. In addition, the stories come with pictures.

            Storynory’s website is easy to navigate. The website is separated into six different tabs. The tabs then open to different stories which have the same genre. The different tabs include original, fairytale, classic authors, myths and world, educational, and poems and music. When the tab original stories is clicked on, it contains stories about frogs, princesses, pirates, witches, birds, dogs, and people. I think that this genre is great to use during the elementary grades. Children can have their imaginations run wild while they learn how to read. I believe that reading teachers can use this tab as well.

            Another great aspect that I enjoyed about Storynory is the fairytales genre. It has all the classic fairytales that children will enjoy. It provides fairytales written by Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Aesop and others.  These fairytales include Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, etc. The selections are almost endless. I really enjoyed revisiting these fairytales. It would be something I would use as an enrichment activity or as a reading intervention.

            I also really enjoyed the educational and poems and music tab. The educational genre includes many stories from various disciplines. For example, there is a story about Herodutus which ties in with Social Studies. There is also a story on how “Tim learns the History of Soccer” which can be used in Physical Education classes. The site provides external links to help present some topics. Lastly, the site contains music and songs from some stories. I think that students will be engaged listening to music as they read along. Storynory is a great literacy resource for the classroom I recommend using this website.