Read a “Looky Book”! March 31, 2008
Posted by anne marie in Books, SMART Board, Special Education, Websites.Tags: Books, reading, SMARTBoard, Website
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If you haven’t checked out the website www.lookybook.com you might want to take a minute to do so! I came across this website when I started a Google search for books online. I should let you know up front that this is a website designed to sell books. It may not work for all classrooms, but the reason I like this site is because you can view and read over 200 picture books, for free, with no obligation. I would recommend that you register (it’s free) to eliminate the requests to purchase the book while reading. Using the SMART Board today we read ”Owls” by Gail Gibbons. It was a perfect activity since we are learning about animal habitats. The books are not interactive (students can, however, touch the screen to turn the pages), but having the book projected onto the screen is a plus for my students. I read the pages using a pen light to highlight the words, asked comprehension questions and had students identify the illustrations, etc. The one negative is that the ease of reading the text is dependent on the size of the text in each book. The illustrations, however, in all the books I have used are wonderful and a great spring board for picture identification, prediction, composition, etc. The other obvious advantage and time saving feature of this site is that you can simply review books that you might want to use in your classroom without having to go to the library. All in all it definitely is worth a “Looky Book”!
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