Sunday, January 19, 2020

Effective Literacy Website #1




Esther Mori Asor
ED638 Fall 2019
Dr. M. Rivera
IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #1



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.”

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