Rationale:
I chose this category because I use these sites frequently in my classroom at a listening center. I have found that due to the limited communication and lower cognitive abilities of my students, they are better able to comprehend and follow the stories in this format. I felt it would be good to use this in the end also, because it would allow me to tidy any loose ends for the entire project while still completing reading.
I looked at Tumblebooks, Bookflix, and Storyline. All have different strengths. Tumblebooks is great because it gives you a great deal of information up front about the book when you are searching for books such at the length of the reading, the grade, lexile, and accelerated reader numbers, and a short description. Tumblebooks also has a short quiz, book report forms, games and puzzles for the students and lesson plan ideas for the teacher.
Bookflix is great because it pairs a fiction and nonfiction book at the same level together by using a common topic. It also has activities afterward that can be done online. There is a section for each that is called meet the author, which gives a basic overview of the author, then links to more information on an outside web page. An explore the web section also allows for more research outside the scholastic site.
Storyline Online is presented by the Actor's Guild and the stories are read by famous actors. They are well read hold the interest in the reader with the the highly entertaining renditions.
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