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Online Audio Festival
Recorded Books K–12 | August 25th 2008
The UK’s Times has been hosting an Online Audio Festival, highlighting different aspects of the audiobook. This week’s panel focuses on Audio and Education, exploring how audiobooks can help make literature more accessible in school—but read more
Integrating Audio into Your Teaching Strategies
Recorded Books K–12 | August 11th 2008
We got some great answers when our Recorded Books website survey asked teachers… How do you integrate audiobooks into your teaching strategy? “I use the stories to help the students practice important concepts like comprehension, summary, read more
Look for the 2008-2009 catalog coming soon!
Recorded Books K–12 | August 4th 2008
The 2008-2009 Recorded Books catalog is on its way to your school’s inbox! We have lots of exciting things to offer, including an expanded Playaway title selection and new 4-packs on Playaway, CD, or cassette that include FREE expanded Lesson P read more
You think recorded books are important for…
Recorded Books K–12 | July 7th 2008
…everything! Our June survey at recordedbooks.com asked what you think recorded books are most important for. 35% said audio is most important for reluctant readers, 29% said students with IEPs, 21% said below grade readers, and 15% said Englis read more
Classroom Management with Audiobooks
Recorded Books K–12 | June 16th 2008
While at White Marsh Elementary, we were impressed by Laurie McGrath’s ability to have many group activities going on at once—with all students on task! We asked her to tell us about her classroom management methods and she told us audiobooks read more
First commenter wins a Playaway audiobook!
Recorded Books K–12 | June 4th 2008
Happy end of the school year! To help you celebrate, we are giving away a FREE Recorded Books Playaway audiobook and matching print book to the very first person to leave a comment for this post! Just leave us your email, and we’ll contact you read more
Win audiobooks for your school!
Recorded Books K–12 | April 23rd 2008
We are excited to announce the start of two contests that could win your school free audiobooks! Details and entry forms for both contests appear in our Spring 2008 catalog, but we encourage you to enter via the banners on this blog. We want to hear read more
Look for our new catalog for librarians!
Recorded Books K–12 | April 15th 2008
We’ve dedicated our Spring 2008 K-12 catalog to librarians. In addition to the favorite products of teachers and librarians, you’ll find special tips and ideas especially for librarians using audiobooks. Also check out our contests for th read more
Is reading on a ‘death spiral’?
Recorded Books K–12 | April 1st 2008
It’s in the news all the time lately: kids aren’t reading! Books are dead! Is it the literary death spiral? Newly appointed U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, author Jon Scieszka thinks we can avoid the death s read more
What made you try audiobooks?
Recorded Books K–12 | March 3rd 2008
In Part Two of our continuing series with White Marsh teachers Jennifer Cord and Laurie McGrath, Jennifer shares how she was first inspired to try audiobooks, and how she immediately got a positive reaction from students and parents… Jennifer read more
Teachers (and students!) talk about how audiobooks work
Recorded Books K–12 | February 20th 2008
White Marsh Elementary teachers Jennifer Cord and Laurie McGrath talk about how audiobooks work in their classroom, and their students tell us how audiobooks have helped them and why. This begins our series on how one school uses audiobooks—check b read more
We’re on the radio!
Recorded Books K–12 | February 8th 2008
A few of us at Recorded Books were recently a part of Dan Angelo’s radio program Education Today on KUCR (88.3 FM) of the University of California-Riverside in Los Angeles. Dan is a college professor and an audio enthusiast, and has in the pas read more
Thanks for listening (& 2008 Newbery Winner!)
Recorded Books K–12 | February 4th 2008
For those of you who caught us on the radio last week - thanks for listening! We’re working on getting audio of the broadcast up on the blog. In the meantime, we’re excited to announce that we’re in production with this year’s read more
RB to Appear on UC-Riverside’s Education Today
Recorded Books K–12 | January 28th 2008
Recorded Books has been asked to be a part of KUCR radio’s Education Today program! The host is an audiobook enthusiast, and is curious about the idea of audio in the classroom—how it is used, why it is helpful, etc. We’ll be taping th read more
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