National Simultaneous Storytime

National Simultaneous Storytime, now in its 11th successful year, is organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).

ALIA (with big thanks to Rod Clement and HarperCollins Australia) has made a number of resources and activities available to support your National Simultaneous Storytime event.

View  Feathers for Phoebe video  

Watch MountGambierLibrary celebrating National Simultaneous Storytelling.

 celebrating National Simultaneous Storytelling.

National Simultaneous Storytelling

Read about the book and the author

Teaching Notes

Visit http://www.alia.org.au/storytime/resources.html to access all of the resources listed below.


Visit National Simultaneous Storytime, now in its 11th successful year, is organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).

• PowerPoint and PDF versions of "Feathers for Phoebe"
• Podcast (for data projectors and IWBs)

• Audio Book / E-Reader Format
• AUSLAN Podcast
  
• Interactive Whiteboard Activities

The text of the book can be used in the following ways:

• Presented as a readers theatre.
• Presented as a story telling.
• Presented as a puppet show.
• Translated for multicultural storytimes.
• Inspiration for activity sheets and lesson plans.

Great ideas to use for the day.


Check the past NSS books.

DEAR time or SSR time or SQUIRT time

Try allowing the computers in your class room to be a choice during DEAR time. Here are a few sites to get you started.
http://storylineonline.net/
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation reads stories aloud to children. This site includes videos,related activities and downloadable activities guide. What a great listening center activity.
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/fiction-nonfiction/play.htm?f
Give students access to some online fiction and nonfiction books with pictures for younger readers to read online from Starfall- a site full of reading resources targeted for early readers.
http://www.roythezebra.com/Roy the Zebra.com includes guided reading stories, interactive whiteboard reading activities, literacy lessons, and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read.
http://www.biguniverse.com/
Big Universe is a web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and CONNECT with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend. Parents, teachers, kids, authors, and others can share and learn while they enjoy this educational and entertaining website.



Literactive.com - Literactive.com provides interactive and downloadable reading material for children in pre-school to first grade. The website offers guided leveled readers, learning activities, worksheets, and also electronic poetry and picture books.

http://www.gutenberg.org/
Have you tried giving students print and audio access to books in the public domain?Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Look for Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes… and many many more. For sites that offer audio versions of some of these books check out:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project

LeadingtoReading.org - LeadingtoReading.org is a site that provides free books and resources to children and families.





Or how about having your students record themselves reading aloud and contribute to the project itself. ( adapted from the Infinite Thinking Machine blog)