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  • Storybooks Canada is a website for teachers, parents, and community members that aims to promote bilingualism and multilingualism in Canada. It makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available in the major immigrant and refugee languages of Canada, in addition to the official languages of English and French. A story that is read in English or French at school can be read in the mother tongue by parents and children at home. In this way, Storybooks Canada helps children to maintain the mother tongue in both oral and print form, while learning one of Canada’s official languages. Similarly, the audio versions of the stories can help beginning readers and language learners make the important connection between speech and text.
  • Indigenous Storybooks – Indigenous Storybooks is a Canadian website for children, families, community members, and educators. Inspired by the open-licensed stories from Little Cree Books, this project aims to make the text, images, and audio of stories available in Indigenous languages as well as English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada. A story that is read in English or French at school can be read in ancestral languages by parents and children at home. In this way, Indigenous Storybooks provides access to stories in ancestral languages as well as English and French. Similarly, the audio versions of the stories can help beginning readers and language learners make the important connection between speech and text. Here is a video introducing the Indigenous Storybooks project.

Some libraries have access to:

  • Tumblebooks
  • LOTE4kids

Listen

  • Books: Read-a-longs! The library’s collection on Libby offers books that are read aloud as the pages turn automatically – for developing readers to learn reading skills! Have your library card ready.
  • Warrior Kids (podcast) – Please join us every week as we talk about everything Indigenous and share each other’s stories about what warrior kids are doing to protect our peoples and the planet.

Play

  • Play: Interland (from Google) – Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure exploring safety on the internet.

Watch

  • Watch: Animation for Kids – The National Film Board has a page just for kids (or kids-at-heart) of their popular animations.

Some libraries have access to

  • Kanopy Kids features a collection of films and TV series that inspire and inform, helping children develop social emotional skills and reinforcing valuable learning topics, such as history, science, and new languages. Kanopy Kids has a diverse selection of educational and entertaining content that range across Movies, TV Series, Animated Storybooks, Live Action, and Animated favorites.  Just click on the Kanopy link, then on “Go to Kanopy Kids” on the top right hand corner of the screen to access everything from Arthur, Curious George and Sesame Street to animated storybooks like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Knuffle Bunny.

Learn

  • Media Smarts – Games and resources to support digital and media literacy in kids and teens.
  • National Geographic Kids – Interactive science learning with videos, games, and articles.
  • PBS Kids – Educational games and videos for children.