As part of IowaAEAOnline, Bookflix is a great resource to provide PreK-3rd grade readers the opportunity to watch books being turned into animated movies and to read books or have books read to them online. Listening to reading is an effective tool for students as they are able to follow along with the book and words on the screen while learning how they are properly enunciated and put together into sentences.
Once you get to BookFlix, after you use the school assigned AEA Username and AEA password, you can explore a variety of options and resources to make BookFlix effective for your students as individuals on the laptops or effective for you to showcase to your students on your computer through the LCD projector.
The first thing is clicking on a category. Once you choose a category then there are a plethora of fiction and nonfiction books that are paired together for you to showcase. The book turned into a movie is fiction and the book turned into an ebook is nonfiction. So for example Chicka Chicka 123 (fiction, movie) is paired with Everyone Uses Math (nonfiction, ebook).
After your students have looked into a fiction, movie book or nonfiction, ebook they can then use Puzzlers to play a Word Match game, Fact or Fiction game, and/or Which Came First game. Along with these Puzzlers, BookFlix provides a link within each pair of books to Meet the Author and to Explore the Web with resources related to the books' ideas/concepts.
BookFlix also does an awesome job of providing efficient, and effective tools for teachers to use to better help themselves and their students. At the top of the BookFlix page is a Help link and a Resources link.
The Help link provides information on the features, getting around, pair elements and troubleshooting. The Resources link provides opportunities to categorize books by Spanish, Grade Level, Guided Reading Level and more, Classroom Activities related to Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and more, Library Programs, and Paired Texts.
An alternative site off of BookFlix to also try is TumbleBooks. Take a look.
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