This is a free website which allows reading/creation of books to selected music/sounds.
I have started using this with one class and now it's spread like wildfire throughout the school.
I was working with one year 3/4 class that had already created their own class story together and so we copied and pasted it into Booktrack and just had to add sounds. We are yet to finish adding all the sound effects to this story, but I thought I would give you a snippet.
What I really like about this is it gets children thinking about the composition of the story. In this attached brief example of a start of a story, you will see the children had to really think about what the personality of the characters they had created were like and choose which music best fit their characters. It really brought the characters alive for them. It will be interesting to see how through music the characters develop as the story goes on.
I have now created a competition amongst classes, with a specific voting criteria. After reading a book you can vote on how many stars. The book with the highest score will go on our school website. Looking forward to seeing the result.
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