In this section you will find a variety of audio books which you can share with your children. We also suggest questions that can be useful to reinforce children's pre reading comprehension skills.
What is the setting?
Questions
Who are the characters?
What is the end of the story?
Unit 8 "Food"
Unit 7 "Domestic Animals"
This classical book, written by Eric Carle, is a perfect resource for children to reinforce different vocabulary words such as food, days of the week, numbers, and colors.
It also elicits children to be familiarized with the butterfly life cycle and the language required to describe it, providing an enjoyable and effective way of learning it.
A baby rabbit named Clover learns what it means to be open-minded about the foods she tries. She becomes healthier and learns about the benefit of trying new things.
The little red hen is a classic storybook that teaches different lessons. This story teaches children the values of sharing, collaboration, and work hard. It also shows the consequences of laziness. All of them can be applied to many situations.
Suggestions:
- Ask your child to describe the characters and give opinions about their actions.
- Ask questions related to temporal sequence, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of the story
Unit 6 "Numbers and Shapes"
In this story you will meet a cow that went OINK and a pig that went MOO. The other animals of the farm laughed at them, so they decided to teach each other how to make their sounds.
As soon as they say good night to Mother monkey, five little monkeys start to jump on their bed. But problems begin as, one by one, they fall off and hurt themselves.
In this story, Robot search for his button, he will find lots of shapes in his search.
Can you name all the shapes on the story?
Unit 5 "Colors"
Winnie lived in her black house with her cat, Wilbur. He was black too. And that is how the trouble began. Everything in Winnies house is black - the carpet, the chairs, the bed and the sheets, the pictures on the walls, and even the bathtub! And of course her cat, Wilbur, is black too - all except for his bright-green eyes. Whenever poor Wilbur closes his eyes and tries to take a catnap, Winnie stumbles right over him. Or accidentally sits on top of him. Until one day, when Winnie gets a brilliant idea. What if Wilbur were a different color?
This is a story about a chameleon who is looking for a color of his own, but finds something else instead...
Suggested questions:
- Can you name all the colors of the chameleon?
- What is your favorite color?
This story is about different animals and colors.
The text is easy to be learned by repeating and guessing which animal comes next. Children can practice identifying vocabulary related to colors and animals.
Unit 4 "Parts of the Body"
In this story you will learn about body parts and actions you can do with them. Listen carefully and try to repeat each vocabulary word: legs, hands, head, arms, feet, neck, shoulders.
Through this classic book children are helped to master nighttime fear in a funny style while turning each page. It is written in an engaging and creative way, which let kids watch how a monster grows and disappear before them. You can practice vocabulary words related to parts of the face.
Unit 3 "My Family"
Through this story children can listen to a very funny description about a super mum who can do many things. This book is a funny tribute to all mums and provides a perfect time to comment on how incredible they are. It also provides a valuable experience to listen to little ones expressing their feelings and also describing different situations they have lived.
Suggested questions:
- What did you like most about this mum?
- What do you like most about your mum?
- What is she really good at?
- What do you like to do with her?
Extended activity:
- Draw a picture of you mum
According to one little boy, his dad is just the coolest and best at everything. He describes many wonderful things he is able to do.
Suggested questions:
- What does the dad's face tells you about? Is he kind? Is he angry? What do you think?
- What is your dad really good at?
- When does your dad make you laugh?
- What things you like doing with your dad?
Extended activity:
- Draw a picture of your dad
Unit 2 "Toys & Playground Games"
Bernard the Robot loses his bottom at the park swing, and sets off to find it. Every time he gets close, it disappears again! Bird was using it as a nest, but it was too heavy; Bear used it in his drum kit, but it was too tiny. Will Bernard ever get his bottom back?
A funny story that will provide your child the chance to develop language skills in an engaging way.
Suggested questions;
- Where did Bernard lose his bottom?
- How do you think he felt without his bottom?
- Where was his bottom at the end?
- What was your favorite part of the story?
Extended activities:
- Make different color robots using toilet paper and boxes from around your house.
- Try to walk, talk, and dance like a robot creating different movements and games.
In this story, Sam and Tim goes to the playground. They play on the swing, on the slide, on the jungle gym, on the seesaw. But they better watch out! What is your favorite playground game?
Unit 1 "My School"
This is a short and simple storybook that can be read to children from Kinder up to 2nd grade. It also can be easily understood by them, since it attends their listening comprehension skills. This book focuses on Cliffords’ values of loyalty and friendship.
Grover Goes to School is a Sesame Street story narrated by Alex Lu-Pon, written by Dan Elliott, and illustrated by Normand Chartier.
This story tells us about Grover on his first day at his new school. He does his best trying to please everybody. He shares his snack, cleans alone the classroom, gives away his toys, and more just to make new friends. Through this simple story, children are provided with an excellent opportunity to express their own insecurity when facing new and unknown situations.
Through this Sesame Street story you will provide your child with a valuable experience to develop listening comprehension and oral expression skills. Your child will also have the opportunity to express their own experiences and personal situations related to feelings, friendship, and values.
Big Bird wants to play games with his friends, but he's too big and gets in the way. When Big Bird cries, his friends decide to make the games bigger.