E-Books

I love E-Books and the kids love them too.

E-Books are bright, colourful, engaging and sometimes animated. They can be used to encourage reluctant readers and struggling readers as they have audio and highlight the words as they are read. They can be used by individual students or by a group or whole class on an interactive whiteboard.  Different books can be used across the curriculum, for introducing a science or SOSE topic, for teaching social skills, literacy, writing and grammar skills. When exploring I even located books to introduce or consolidate math concepts.

The downfalls are acess to computers and internet connectivity, limited number of books available and as books are audio less modelling of reading by class teacher (however this could be overcome by turning the volume off and class teacher reading along).

This is a great web site to use for primary school students,  Tumble books (E-Books). Most of the books have comprehension style questions and games to play.

I located a particularly good book for teaching internet safety to children "Surfing Safely". I highly recommend everyone have a look. My link didn't work please browse through the Tumble Books.

This web site also had a free downloadable reading software called Tumble Pad 2.0. This reading software comes with an story book, audio book and a game. Once the software and books are downloaded you no longer require internet connectivity. I have downloaded the software and will have a play with it.