STORYNORY
https://www.storynory.com
is one of the best effective literacy website for reading. It is a free audio story
ever since 2005 until today. Storynory are both podcast and a website with
audio streaming. Today, storynory has grown into the largest and best love
archive of free children’s audio books on the internet. Storynory also produce
factual content including history and interviews. They aim to stimulate a
curiosity about the world and the ability to think critically. Storynory has
over 600 audio stories on the site. Their original stories are written in home
and read by professional actors.
Storynory takes a lot of time to produce their story. It
takes two to three days writing the story. Then, another few days to proof read
the writing and preparing the narration. Then, it usually takes two or three
stories in a session lasting one and half hours. In addition to it, they spend
more time adding music and sound effect. Finally it will upload to Libsyn which
hosts the audio and publish the story on word press. Audience comes via website
and podcast. It can add up to a million downloads in a single month. People
from many countries listen to the story.
Most of the stories are aimed at an age group around 7 to
11 years. They also have some stories nursery stories and rhymes for preschool
and some sophisticated stories. Children and adults enjoy listening to the
stories. Some even send a message that says “they have grown up listening to
storynory.”
