Online Read Alouds
Online Read Alouds
The following books are either in the Year 0 list, the unofficial Year .5 list, or have been recommended during discussions of the Year 0 Yahoo group. They are available online, read aloud for free! From the basic Year 0 list: Uncle Remus: http://librivox.org/uncle-remus-by-joel-chandler-harris/ Beatrix Potter Stories: http://librivox.org/great-big-treasury-of-beatrix-potter/ Additional Recommendations: Thorton Burgess Books (7+ books! Highly recommended! Dont use the Bird Book or the Animal Book yet those are for later years): http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php? title=&author=Thornton+W.+Burgess&action=Search The Seven Little Sisters Who Live On the Round Ball (year 0.5 geography): http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12631 The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (year 0.5 geography): http://librivox.org/the-dutch-twinsby-lucy-fitch-perkins/ Hurlbuts Story of the Bible: http://librivox.org/hurlbuts-story-of-the-bible-part-one/ The Real Mother Goose: http://librivox.org/the-real-mother-goose-by-anonymous/ Poems Every Child Should Know: http://librivox.org/poems-every-child-should-knowedited-by-mary-e-burt/
Rageddy Ann & Raggedy Andy Series: http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php? title=&author=Johnny+Gruelle&status=all&action=Search Aesops Fables (note: some of these are used during Year 1, so choose carefully!): http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php? reader=&mc=&bc=&cat=&genre=&language=&type=&author=&title=Aesop%27s %20Fables&status=all&reader_exact=&mc_exact=&bc_exact=&date=&group=&engroup=&ingro up=&ingroup=17 Other books Project Gutenberg has in human audio (look up individually by author): http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 - Andersons Fairytales - Aesops Fables - Animal tales by Arthur Scott Bailey