Nickita Gilmete

IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #3

Storynory

URL: https://www.storynory.com/

            Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. All contents in Storynory are free. Storynory aims for audio stories to showcase imagination, good writing, and great narrations. This website is also starting to produce more factual content including history and interviews. The aim of the factual programming is to stimulate a curiosity about the world, and the ability to think critically. It takes a lot of time to produce the stories in Storynory. Most of the stories in this site are aimed at an age group around 7 to 11 years. However, Storynory have nursery stories and rhymes for preschool, and some quite sophisticated stories.

            Storynory is another website that provides free audio stories. In Storynory, there are original stories, fairytales, classic audio books, myths and world stories, junior stories, and poems and music. When clicking on the stories on this website, the stories will be narrated to you and the actual story was there on the website for you to read along with the narrator. The voice of characters are changing in the narration of the stories.

            Storynory is an effective literacy website because it can help students learn to read and write. When students will read along with the narrator in this website, students will learn how to pronounced words that are unfamiliar with them. They will become fluent readers when they are reading along with the narrator. Teachers should visit this website and encourage students to visit this website because it will help students a lot.