Scholastic’s BookFlix, is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction. This engaging resource for children in grades pre-K through 3 will help early readers develop and practice essential reading skills and introduce them to a world of knowledge and exploration.
Each BookFlix unit includes the following elements:
- Watch the Story: streaming video of a classic children’s story. A Read Along option can be activated to display the audio portion of the story, with word-by-word highlighting, as it plays.
- Read the Book: related nonfiction text presented in an eBook format. The Read Along option can be activated to hear the text read aloud with word-by-word highlighting. In addition, key content vocabulary words are highlighted in yellow. Placing the cursor on the highlighted word will display its definition, and the ear icon can be clicked to hear the definition read aloud.
- Puzzlers: interactive educational games related to the specific pair. Word Match reinforces key vocabulary from the nonfiction text by asking players to match a definition to the correct vocabulary word. Fact or Fiction underscores the differences between fiction and nonfiction by asking players to identify a series of statements as either fact or fiction. Which Came First? fosters the ability to follow a plot by asking players to identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story. Ear icons can be clicked to hear the game directions, as well as all statements and definitions, read aloud.
- Meet the Creators: profiles of the author and illustrator of the story on which the video is based. An ear icon can be clicked to hear the profiles read aloud. At the end of each profile is a link to a Web site containing more information on the author or the illustrator.
- Explore the Web: editorially selected, age-appropriate Web links related to the pair topic.
- Lesson Plan: suggested teaching activities created specifically for each fiction/nonfiction pair. All lesson plans are aligned to national language-arts and content-area standards. The lesson plan is also available as a printable PDF.
A number of pairs are available in Spanish. These versions have the same Read Along option, with word-by-word highlighting, as the English versions. Where a Spanish-language version is available, an “Español” icon appears above the eBook or below the video player.