Storyline Online - Children’s Books Read by Screen Actors’ Guild

Target Audience: K-12

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Link: http://www.storylineonline.net/

Children will enjoy listening to a wonderful selection of children’s stories (see partial list below), read by
movie and TV actors. 

Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals.

​Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.

The site is not only a wonderful tool in an of itself, but it also provides an idea for an extension activity:
Have your students create their own StorylineOnline” story videos to share with younger children in the local schools. It will take some planning. They may wish to storyboard just how each shot will look - what they will focus on. These stories provide good role models for being able to read with feeling and expression, and the types of video shots that will maintain interest and flow. ​

Some books provided on the site include:

  • To Be a Drum, by Evelyn Coleman 

    • ​read by James Earl Jones

  • As Fast As Words Could Fly;  by Pamela M. Tuck 

    • read by Dulé Hill

  • Mice Twice, by Joseph Low 

    • read by Ty Burrell

  • Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon

    • read by Pamela Reed

  • Library Lion, by Michelle Knudsen

    • read by Mindy Sterling 

  • Thank you, Mr. Falker, by Patricia Polacco

    • read by Jane Kaczmarek​

  • Brave Irene, by William Steig

    • read by Al Gore

  • A Bad Case of Stripes, by David Shannon

    • read by Sean Astin​

  • Quackenstein Hatches a Family, by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

    • read by Kristen Bell

  • Clark the Shark, by Bruce Hale

    • read by Chris Pine


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