{"id":132,"date":"2007-10-21T06:39:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/free-audio-books-for-educators-lit-2-go"},"modified":"2016-10-01T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:47:57","slug":"free-audio-books-for-educators-lit-2-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/free-audio-books-for-educators-lit-2-go","title":{"rendered":"Free Audio Books for Educators: Lit 2 Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lit2Go\"A colleague of mine just sent me a link to a great literature resource from Florida’s Educational Technology Clearninghouse–Lit2G0: MP3 Stories and Poems<\/a>. The Clearinghouse is providing free downloads of classic public domain texts.<\/p>\n

There are other sites that offer free mp3s of public domain books (such as Librivox<\/a> and Ejunto<\/a>), but what sets Lit2Go apart are the educational materials that go with each title.<\/p>\n

Take, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey<\/em><\/a> for instance. The main page offers a brief summary of the book and links to each chapter. Clicking on a chapter link<\/a> takes you to a new page where you have the opportunity to download the chapter’s mp3, read the text online, or download the chapter as a pdf file. In addition, each chapter page gives the reading level, genre, country of origin, themes and reading strategies. It also includes support material, which is usually an open-ended question that could be used to start a discussion or lead to a writing assignment.<\/p>\n

All of the recordings I sampled seemed professionally done, if sometimes a bit stiff, and many of the titles are available through iTunes. Authors include the usual suspects: Jane Austen<\/a>, Charlotte<\/a> and Emily Bront\u00c3\u00ab<\/a>, Lewis Carroll<\/a>, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a>, The Brothers Grimm<\/a>, Rudyard Kipling<\/a>, Edgar Allen Poe<\/a>, and Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were a few surprises, however–authors and titles I didn’t expect to see: James Baldwin’s The Story of Siegfried<\/em><\/a>, James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/a>, <\/em>George MacDonald’s The Light Princess<\/em><\/a>, and Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

All in all, Lit 2 Go<\/a> is a superb literature resource for teachers and students. I’ll be visiting it often and telling my students about it in class this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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