Tales2Go is an excellent audio book application with plenty of entertaining and educational audio books for children of all ages. A big Tales2Go hit in our house is “The Monkey and the Crocodile” read by Regi Carpenter. My 4-year-old son knows all of the words and loves to make the sound effects as my youngest son giggles and laughs hysterically. The application is easy to use for finding new (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) or classic (Goldilocks and the 3 Bears) audio books. There are plenty of options for searching. You can search by age, book, story type, storytellers, characters, and even by grade level. There are short audio books (2-6 mins.) and longer titles (1-3 hours). I was excited to recently learn of a new program that Tales2Go has just announced:
Free subscriptions for schools and educational programs!
Tales2Go Gives Free Subscriptions to Schools and Educational Programs
– Limited-Time Offer Good Through January 15, 2011 –
Washington, DC, December 13, 2010 – Tales2Go, an innovative, children’s audio book and story service/app, announced today a new initiative to give schools, day care centers and other educational programs free subscriptions to its award-winning service. Educators can now sign up for a free Tales2Go account up until January 15, 2011. Each subscription shall remain valid through June 30, 2011. Up to five Apple mobile devices (i.e. iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) can be used on each account, thus allowing for multiple classroom use.
Tales2Go gives parents and educators instant, on-demand and unlimited access to over 1,300 audio titles from leading publishers and storytellers (such as Bill Harley, Diane Ferlatte, Odds Bodkin). The stories are very entertaining and popular with kids, ranging from fairy tales to classics like Curious George Rides a Bike to popular series and characters like Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The service is very easy to use and can be accessed on any Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, and played out on the device itself or via a docking station, capsule speaker, the AUX channel of a car stereo or individually with ear buds or headphones.
“We see this promotion as win-win for both schools and parents: schools get a free subscription to a large library of audio titles from leading publishers and storytellers, and parents get greater exposure to the value of Tales2Go by its use in schools,” said William Weil, co-founder and CEO of Tales2Go. Many schools play audio books for their younger students as an important supplement to instructional activities; and more and more schools – and teachers themselves – have Apple mobile devices and the necessary wireless access to use them. The benefits of listening to audio stories include exposure to more advanced vocabulary and building critical listening and comprehension skills – for both beginning and developing readers.
To sign up, please visit www.tales2go.com/schoolpromo
The subscription will be valid until the end of the school year. This allows teachers plenty of time to try some of the audio books with their students. The Tales2Go audio books can be used for demonstrating, as well as critiquing, types of vocal expression and intonation. Developing readers can use the Tales2Go audio books in listening centers alongside their favorite classroom books. This can help students with decoding new words, building vocabulary, and comprehending story themes and character actions.
Do you have ideas for how audio books can be used in your classroom? Are you already using them? How would you use Tales2Go with your students?
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