What will you be doing with your StoryPhones?

• Listening to songs and music in different languages
• Listening to simple stories in different languages
• Record children saying simple phrases and words, for example, hello and good bye, numbers, colours or family names
• If any of your children speak a European language, ask them to teach the other children simple songs and phrases in their particular language
• Create an interest table and download phrases or songs onto the Headsets or Remote Console.  Place the players within the display.

Available from BookShelf, the StoryPhones download store

The Language Factory

French resources for weather and greetings

Spanish resources for colours and greetings

Collins Education

Songs, rhymes and jokes from

Collins French Club and Collins Spanish Club

Books@Press

The Baby Birds, a story from the Koran available in Welsh and English

Useful websites

http://www.ecml.at/

The Council of Europe website contains lots of information about the European Day of Languages, including events, activities and free downloads.

http://www.cilt.org.uk/

The cilt website offers information and downloadable resources to help you celebrate the European Day of Languages

www.key2language.neatherd.org

Download a free power point to teach children how to say hello in lots of different languages.

www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/audio

Free MP3 downloads of songs in French, German and Italian with accompanying lyric sheets.

Click here to download instructions on how to save MP3 tracks from websites

Click here to find out how to import MP3 tracks into the StoryPhones software

Ingrid has written more new stories and songs about the Neckmann family and Giraffe World.  Ingrid’s stories and songs are an ideal starting point for older children to discuss their emotions, relationships, and world issues such as the environment.  Voyage under the sea with Captain Gurgle, join the Neckmann family as they start up a new business or find out how Necky Becky and Nexi sort out an argument.

New Titles, includes audio story, songs, pictures and lyrics

An Ocean Adventure with Giraffe World Tours

Nexi’s Neckwarmers

Singing With the Stiffnex

Interactive Stories from Shoo Fly

You can now purchase the interactive books to accompany Shoo Fly’s unique audio stories and poems. Titles are available from their award winning I-Fly Stories. Shoo Fly’s award winning stories entrall children with inventive and humorous tales and songs.  The narrative poems for age ranges 5-9, include engaging interactive animated book with narration and supporting resources to inspire children to become authors and create their own books. Price includes postage and packing.

New Titles include:

Jack and the Beans Talk

Little Red Hiding Hood

The Gingery Boy

The Three Little Cowboy Builders I-Fly book and Story Creator Software

Planet Rhyme Time

One Small Step

New catalogue Summer 2010

Our new summer 2010 catalogue is now available and we have added 100’s of new titles from our existing publishers and from some unique and exciting new names!  Click here to download our catalogue.

The BookShelf store now has lovely and exciting resources from the following new publishers.

Books@Press

Chunky Tunes

Ingrid Sylvestre

Yellow Door

Collins Language Clubs

Letterland

We have also expanded the range of titles from our popular existing publishers

Shoo Fly

Walker Books

Lawrence Education

Ros Bayley

Adam Bushnell

To see the full range of our resources, click on this link.

If you would like to order content credit, or find out more about StoryPhones phone 0845 652 0906.

French Club and Spanish Club are packed with songs, rhymes, jokes and tongue twisters designed to be engaging, memorable and enjoyable. Children as young as 3 and as old as 12 will enjoy singing along to the catchy rhythms. 

Learning language from a young age should be a fun, stress-free activity. By listening and joining in as native speaking children have fun in French or Spanish, your child will be learning without even realising it. Topics such as animals, colours and the days of the week are all covered, and specially-designed tongue twisters help to ensure that the pronunciation of some of the trickier aspects of French pronunciation prove to be no obstacle at all. 

Free accompanying full-colour, illustrated transcript to assist you and your children as they learn.

Most of these resources are a little different to most that we have in the BookShelf store.  When you purchase the downloads for Dance in a Bag you are also ordering a full Dance in a Bag kit which will be sent to you by normal post.  The full cost of the kit and downloads is included in the download price and is deducted from your account balance when you buy.

We have four titles very popular from Dance in a Bag: Look at Me, I’m A Star!, Reasons and Rhymes, The Dragon’s Surprise and Dance in a Bag Favourites.  The Favourites set contains 12 lovely music tracks but does not have any other resources with it.

For more information, go to www.danceinabag.co.uk

The Language Factory has created content sets from their award winning Modern Foreign Language Resources and these are now available to buy in BookShelf, the StoryPhones download store. If you would like an easy way to introduce your children to French or Spanish, then these content sets are an ideal solution.

The Language Factory resources are simple and fun to use. Children pick up rhythm, rap and rhyme very easily and so the repetitive nature of the songs and raps help children learn the correct pronunciation and intonation for that language.

Each content set provides MP3 song tracks and PDF resources to support the audio tracks. Children can learn the French vocabulary for greetings and weather or the Spanish vocabulary for greetings and colours.

The lively songs and raps can be taught in sections and the whole song and vocabulary can be built up over time giving young children a chance to develop their language skills and gain confidence with the vocabulary and pronunciation. Once the children are familiar with the songs and raps, they can sing along to a karaoke version of the song.

To find out more please visit  www.language-factory.co.uk

Ros Bayley’s Raps will get your children rapping, tapping wiggling and clapping. Children will develop steady beat skills, coordination, rhythm, rhyme and phonological awareness.

Almost Traditional Tales

Develop your children’s listening skills with Ros Bayley’s Almost Traditional Tales. These lively versions of some old favourites are full of sound effects and catchy raps that will promote:

auditory discrimination
aural attention span
auditory memory
phonological awareness
imaginative engagement

Each story remains almost true to the original but has a variety of catchy raps integrated into the storyline. Once the children have listened to the stories a few times, they will soon be rapping along with them and will be able to access them for themselves during child initiated learning.