Literacy Website #6

            Storyline Online (https://www.storylineonline.net) is a SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website.  It streams videos featuring actors reading children’s book with elaborate illustrations.  Actors include Oprah Winfrey, Kristen Bell, Ed O’Neill, Viola Davis, Elijah Woods, and many more.  Storyline Online allows children to engage themselves in reading and storytelling.

            Storyline Online has about 50 books that teachers, students, and parents can use. Each book has a detailed description about the author, illustrator, and publisher.  It also contains the suggested grade level, the actor reading the story, and the run time of the video. At the bottom of the story description users have the options to buy the book and provide Activity Guides.

            The Activity Guides provides a detailed lesson plan for teachers.  The Activity Guide provides a synopsis of the story and theme in the story.  It provides step-by-step instruction to do before viewing, during video, and after viewing the video. Each viewing gives Common Core Standards, objectives, materials needed, and procedures.  The activity guide also contains Reading Response, Writing, and Across the Curriculum Activities.

            Overall, I think Storyline Online is an engaging website that captivates children by their creatively produced storytelling videos.  Reading aloud to children helps to improve reading, writing, and communication skills.  Storyline Online is another website that instills and inspires a love of reading in children.