I listened to two different podcasts. The first was a podcast from Grammar Girl, tips for better writing. The topic that I listened to was about sentence fragments in fiction writing. Although it was very informative and helpful, this particular topic would be too difficult for my sixth graders. I think that this might be geared towards writing students in high school and college.
The next podcast that I checked out was Storynory, which had free audio stories for kids. It allows you to listen to a variety of stories. There were even a variety of fairytales to choose from, which is the next unit that we will be studying in Language Arts. I chose to listen to the traditional fairytale, "Beauty and the Beast" and I really enjoyed it! I usually read the fairytales aloud to the class, but I think it would be fun for them to listen to some stories on the podcast.
Do you think creating a podcast is something you could do in your class? Either as a teacher creating lessons or having students create them as learning tools. Any thoughts on that?
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