AUDIO LMC Materials

Check the On Line Catalog to see our collection of audio books
Our bookroom list includes audio holdings as well as book descriptions and related web resources

Audio Poetry

3 doz. poems read by Garrison Keillor from The Writer's Almanac (CD_BK 811 KEI)
Billy Collins Live (CD-BK 811 COL)
Good Poems selected by Garrison Keillor (CD-BK 811 KEI)
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry  (CD-BK 811 I)
Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (CD-BK 811.54 GIO)
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath  (P 811 POE)
Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006 (CD-BK 808.81 POE)
Poetry Speaks to Children  (P 811 POE)
The Voice of Langston Hughes (CAS 811.5 HUG)

Audio Essays and Interviews

This I Believe: Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Voices of Our Time:  Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews

Audio on the Web

Engines of Our Ingenuity
	A radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity.  The three minute streaming audio files are accompanied by transcripts.  Average reading level falls within the middle school range.  Examples:   Hall Jackson, Colonial Physician and Zippers and Design and John Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge

Poetry Out Loud -- Audio Guide   Poetry Out Loud, sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts, encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance.  This site features some marvelous readings by professional actors.  Site also features an extensive collection of poems as well as "Today's Poet."   Special English by Voice of America  A great resource of adapted English

Stories with complete text and streaming audio.  (RLMS use Real Player)   It is written in clear and simple English for people whose native language is not English.  It has a core vocabulary of 1500 words.  Most are simple words that describe objects, actions or emotions.  Highlights

Story Corps
	Collects the stories and legends of everyday American.  Brief excerpts (3-5 minutes) of these first person narratives are available via National Public Radio.  Example: Poet Billy Collins speaks about his father.

This I Believe
	A collection of brief essays in which Americans from all walks of life share the personal philosophies and core values that guide their daily lives.  Examples:  Colin Powel speaks America and his immigrant parents and   Bill Gates speaks about unleashing the power of creativity.

The Writer's Almanac
	A daily dose of history and poetry from Garrison Keillor

VIDEOS, DVDs, and Streaming Video

Video on the Web

Favorite Poem Project
	People talk about themselves and their favorite poem.  Examples:  Howard Michael Henderson reads Merry Go Round by Langston Hughes

Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Broadcast Archive
	Features music and dance from around the world.  Search the performance archive and add some mood music to your classroom!

National Book Festival Webcasts for Kids and Families  WOW!
	Popular children's authors talk about their work.  Most are 30 minutes long.  This is a goldmine!  I made a separate page to highlight some wonderful examples

National Geographic Channel Videos
	Click on "Browse All Videos" or "Browse By Category"

National Geographic Magazine Interactive   This is the link to the current issue.
	Features audio and video clips.  Look for the moving tape icon.  See earlier editions by substituting an earlier date in the URL.  Click here for the archives.  Browse for contents by placing your cursor over a date.  Special feature:  Search map of Africa for related stories.

Power Media Plus
	Streaming video on a wide variety of topics.  User name is your email address. Password is password.

Reading Rockets Video Interviews   WOW!
	Multi-part interviews with popular writers.  Segments range from 1 to 4 minutes. Examples: Avi talks about dyslexia, poet Jack Prelutsky discusses his writer's notebook, Walter Dean Myers talks about his writing process

 

INTERACTIVE GRAMMAR AND WRITING

Grammar:	Basic	Advanced
	BBC Skills Wise	Interactive Grammar Quizzes
	Grammar and ESL Exercises	Guide to Grammar and Writing
	Grammar Bytes	Sentence Sense
		Purdue University Interactive Activities

 

Writing:	Biography Maker
	Scholastic Writing with Writers:	Biographies Book Reviews Descriptive Writing Folktales Myths News Stories Poetry Speech Writing
	Paragraph Punch: Interactive writing – constructing a paragraph

Webliographies of Interactive Language Arts websites:
ReadWriteThink
Eduscapes

Little movie and quiz about 5 paragraph essay
 

TEACHING AND READING GUIDES Glencoe Literature Library  WOW! Select title, scroll to bottom, click on Study Guide HarperChildrens.com Teaching Guides -- Includes Seedfolks, Teach Creech, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers. Teachers@Random

WEBQUESTS These are examples of webquests created by other schools. The LMC staff would be happy to assist in creating a webquest on a book or topic of your choice.

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