Digital picture books and teaching literacy
Are you preparing lessons for your school placement?
The following digital resources are provided by the Library and can be used in the classroom.
Our teacher librarians have created a guide for each resource to enable you to quickly integrate them into your teaching.
Links for electronic resources:
- Tumblebook library premiumTumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which assist in teaching early learners reading in an online media format. This comprehensive library of online books comes with lesson resources and interactive activities to accompany each story.
- Story Box Library
Imagine the best stories being read aloud to you by our favourite storytellers – well that's Story Box Library! We get kids excited about reading, inspire their imaginations and let them have fun with stories, improving their language and literacy skills along the way. With an ever-growing library, suitable for preschool and primary aged children, it really is Storytime, Anytime!
Streamed video for the classroom
Streamed videos from the Library can be incorporated into your lessons during placement or used for your own learning. The videos play immediately and are accessible 24/7
How to find streamed videos
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Search the Library catalogue and limit results to online videos
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Alternatively, search these databases for streamed videos:
- Kanopy This platform provides diverse streamed video content including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases from leading distributors and film-makers. It includes content suitable for K-12 lessons and teacher education development resources.
- Education in Video (Alexander Street Press) is a collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. The collection includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
- Alexander Street Video offers video, audio and text-based resources covering an extensive range of subjects. This site allows users to cross-search the content purchased by the University of Melbourne Library (including Education in Video).
- EduTV provides access to broadcast programs from free-to-air and pay TV channels in Australia.
New to streaming media?
Want to know how to create short clips for your classroom?
Storyline Online
Storyline Online is a free resource. Reading to children has been repeatedly shown to improve their reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking, concentration and general academic aptitude as well as inspire a love of reading. The Screen Actors Guild Foundation records well-known actors reading children’s books and makes graphically dynamic videos.
Storyline Online also provides an activity guide to support lesson planning to build comprehension of the featured picture books.