TumbleBooks

=Using TumbleBooks=

By: Ms. Dolores Saliba Northern Parkway Elementary [|http://www.tumblebooks.com]

Students at Northern Parkway are very excited for our newest database, TumbleBooks. Tumblebooks is a wonderful interactive website that offers online books for children. It provides many current and popular picture book titles. Students simply select a book and their story comes to life with animated illustrations, music, sound effects, and narration. While a sentence is read, the text is highlighted so that students can follow along.

At the completion of each story, students can challenge themselves in a verity of ways. They can take a short quiz to test themselves on what they have learned. Some stories even provide an opportunity to write a book report or play a story-related game. We are also eager to see Tumblebooks’ expanding collection in Spanish and French.

Since this database can be used at home and school, our students can have the pleasure of a read-aloud any time they want.