We compiled a list of activities for audiobooks that can be completed in the classroom, and a list for at home use. Educators are encouraged to attend a webinar prior to using Tales2go to walk through the subscription and understand how all the features work!

Classroom and Library Activities:

• Model listening skills and make a list of “rules” while listening
• Use an audiobook as a read aloud (especially chapter books over a period of time)
• Play a clip/excerpt of a title as a teaser or book talk
• Setup listening centers or rotation based on topics/skills
• Lead small group guided listening sessions - dive into a text!
• Listen to reading during independent reading/SSR
• Listen to reading during breakfast or snack time
• Listen to reading during indoor recess
• Have book clubs or shared listening
• Have an “audio book of the week” and reward students for listening to it
• Write an original story based on characters in the book (writing workshop)
• Record original stories using a recording device
• Create a play/skit after listening and perform it for the class
• Make characters out of play-doh or clay
• Listen to a sentence or two and try to repeat the expression in the narrators voice
• Use pre-made lesson plans to help support your curriculum
• Keep track of vocabulary words and what they mean
• Complete graphic organizers
• Students can have “free choice” where they are able to choose titles based on certain topics
• Have your students keep track of listening minutes using a log
• Find matching titles to your state’s reading list or award list
• Talk about how the narrator’s expression helped them to understand the text
• In the library have Tales2go as a choice when students are done checking out books
• Listen to multiple titles in a series
• If your students eat free/reduced breakfast, listen to a story while they eat
• Draw pictures of what is happening in the story on a blank sheet of paper or comic strip.

Home Assignments and Activities:

• Send home a letter and login guide to each family
• Create a homework packet
• Send home a list of titles to listen to. They can choose from that list or give them a time frame where all titles need to be completed
• Depending on grade/age level, appropriately assign a weekly story (or two) along with an assignment like a graphic organizer that would correspond compare and contrast, find the main idea, character traits, etc.)
• Encourage listening with parents which will strengthen relationships between families and build vocabulary for all
• Have your students keep track of listening minutes using a log
• Listen to a title at home that is also a movie!

This is NOT a comprehensive list! Please reach out to us and let us know other ways to use Tales2go in the classroom and at home.