Posted by Diane Wolf on Jul 24, 2014; 8:27pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/POST-3-Share-a-resource-tp360p517.html

I used BookFLIX as my place to start learning about the AEA online resources.  I worked through the AEA site and signed on to BookFLIX.  I navigated to the place where the book "Bear Snores On" by Karma Wilson was available.  The web address is:  http://bkflix.grolier.com/p/node-33978/bk0001pr.

BookFLIX pairs a storybook with a non-fiction book.  You can watch the story of "Bear Snores On."  It was a video story with music, a nice reader, and illustrations from the book often jazzed up with blowing snow across the page and effects like that.  The non-fiction book was "A Bear Cub Grows Up."  For both books you could listen to it being read with the words highlighted as they were being said.  You could also turn this off.  Vocabulary words were in yellow and you could click on them to get a definition to appear which was also read aloud.

After reading the stories there were several activities to try.  There was a game of "Which Came First?"  Three scenes were shown and you had to drag them to the first, next, last spaces.  Another resource was called "Word Match."  There were six vocabulary words.  This was a little harder.  Pre-readers would need help.  There was cute music and reinforcement in the form of a picture that appeared as each word was matched correctly.  Finally, there was an activity called "Fact or Fiction."  This had four activities from the book and you had to click fact or fiction for each.

Another tab was called "Explore the Web."  There were links to making up your own story, an animal sounds library, and video clips from BBC Nature.  

I was very impressed with BookFLIX and cannot wait to explore more books.  Outcomes would be very good especially if a family member were to visit this site with their child initially.  Later, the child could go back and play the games and listen to the books on his or her own and continue to extend the learning and reading.