Lit2Go Audiobooks

How To Use Lit2Go Audiobooks in Your Classroom

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

FCIT’s Lit2Go audiobook website contains an amazing number of books and passages at all reading levels. The variety of recordings and the possibilities for using them can be a bit overwhelming, so we’d like to share some suggestions for finding the appropriate...

Spooky Stuff

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

Take advantage of your students’ fascination with spooky stuff this month. We’ve collected our favorite Lit2Go stories and poems along with some spooky images from FCIT websites. The items in the collection will probably give you many ideas for classroom...

Autumn in Verse

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

(Our friends from Australia and elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere will probably prefer to celebrate the September equinox with our collection of spring poetry on Lit2Go.) Most classrooms I visit in autumn have sprouted colorful leaf bulletin board borders or other...

A Beatrix Potter Summer

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

Summer’s a great time for kids to push away from the keyboard for a bit and engage in some decidedly non-digital activities, but that’s not to say our digital collections can’t be a great starting point. Beatrix Potter is one of the most popular...

Annotating the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

Paul Laurence Dunbar was born June 27, 1872. He was one of the first African-American writers to establish an international reputation. His work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and...

Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. It is traditionally believed that he was also born on same day in 1564. We’ve collected audiobooks of the Bard’s most famous works and additional teaching resources to celebrate the life of one of the greatest writers in the English...

Five Reasons To Use Audiobooks for Remote Learning

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

I’ve written frequently about our free Lit2Go audiobook collection. I’ll paste links to other posts at the bottom. Today, I’d like to share five reasons to include audiobooks in remote instruction. 1. Audiobooks give students a chance to rest their...

Frederick Douglass: A Voice for Our Time

by Roy Winkelman | Lit2Go Audiobooks, Using Digital Content

Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglass Lit2Go free audiobook recording (26 minutes) PDF of the speech (6 pages, reading level 11.1) We live in an unhappy time of polarization, when many students (and perhaps their parents) don’t read news...

African-American Digital Content Collections

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

Resources for African-American History Month Each year since 1996, the President of the United States has proclaimed February to be African American History Month. Its origins, however, go back to the 1920s when Dr. Carter Woodson and the Association for the Study of...

Winter Pictures and Poetry

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

Whether you consider Winter to start on the first of December or the winter solstice (December 21 or 22), here are some poems and pictures appropriate for classroom use. The poems are available in both MP3 and PDF formats from the Lit2Go website. The pictures are from...

39 Recorded Speeches and the Reasons To Use Them with Your Students

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

The Lit2Go free audiobook site contains over 5,000 audio passages including book chapters, poems, short stories, essays, fables, memoirs, and speeches. Most of these genres were originally created as the written word. Some, such as fables or folk tales started out as...

Lit2Go: The Soundtrack for Your Students’ Next Movie

by Roy Winkelman | Using Digital Content, Lit2Go Audiobooks

We recently received a request from the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument to use our Lit2Go recording of Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address in a video they were preparing about the Monument. Their finished video can be...