A national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs).
In Book Box’s conception, a ‘book’ is a reading experience that can travel any audio-visual media platform, including print. They innovated the ‘AniBook’ or animated book, to support early reading and language skills. AniBooks are animated stories for children, with the narration appearing on-screen as Same Language Subtitles (SLS). Every word is highlighted in perfect timing with the audio narration, thus strengthening reading skills, automatically and subconsciously.
Unite for Literacy’s online library provides free access to more than 400 original picture books, one fourth of them written in Spanish. The digital books provide audio narrations in more than 40 languages, spoken by native speakers. The languages of narration include indigenous and endangered languages along with languages most widely spoken in the United States.