Congratulations to our ePrep Winner!

Congratulations to the winner of our giveaway of 25 seats in ePrep, an online SAT/ACT test prep program…

Betty said:
I teach English to 11th & 12th graders in a small, rural school district. We have offered SAT prep classes in the past, but because of the limited number of students (and teachers) we can not longer [...]

FREE Audio and Lesson Plans from Mailbox Magazine

We’re excited to be sponsoring the latest edition of The Mailbox e-newsletter. Featured in the newsletter are activities and free audiobook excerpt downloads for three books from Recorded Books-published Dr. Janet Allen’s Plugged-in to Nonfiction Grades 4-5, Horrible Science: Angry Animals, Abraham Lincoln: The Life of America’s Sixteenth President, and On the Halfpipe with…Tony Hawk.
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Win SAT Prep for Your School!

Recorded Books is proud to announce a partnership with leading online SAT, ACT, and PSAT test-prep provider ePrep. Created by long-time private tutor and Princeton University graduate Karl Schellscheidt, ePrep combines video answer explanations with an interactive video-based study hall to help students maximize their scores. The school version of ePrep tracks student progress on [...]

Celebrate Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week will be celebrated September 26–October 3, 2009. The ALA encourages librarians to “challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment” as stated in the Library Bill of Rights, and since 1990 the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom has compiled information on banned and challenged books.
If you’d like [...]

YA Authors Team Up for read.gov

A group of best-selling teen authors, headed up by Jon Scieszka, is teaming up to create a story for read.gov. Scieszka will be joined by authors and illustrators M.T. Anderson, Natalie Babbitt, Calef Brown, Susan Cooper, Kate Di Camillo, Nikki Grimes, Shannon Hale, Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, Steven Kellogg, Gregory Maguire, Megan McDonald, Patricia [...]

RB Teacher’s Guide Samples

Do you use Recorded Books Teacher’s Guides? They are available for many titles in our catalog at $1.25 each, and come free in Homework Packs and Class Sets where available. Each reproducible Teacher’s Guide features:

Book summary
Author bio
Warm-up questions
Comprehension questions
Creative thinking questions
“Extending the lesson” cross-curricular section
two student assessments

Don’t know what an RB Teacher’s Guide is? Download [...]

School Libraries and Censorship

It’s a little early for Banned Books Week, but the issue is still an important one and has been in the news recently. A library in Wisconsin has been asked to reshelve several YA books into the adult section because of their content. One of the books explicitly mentioned happens to be The Perks of [...]

Enter to win! Or download National Poetry Month freebies today!

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re giving away excerpts and accompanying activities for some of our favorite poetry on audio for K-12. Poetry on audio is a great way to introduce students to poetry—they hear proper meter, diction, and pronunciation, allowing them to more easily analyze complex figurative language. If you use this or [...]

International Children’s Digital Library

This morning on Twitter I ran across a link for the International Children’s Digital Library. The site looks wonderful! Just check out the simple search function for a fun way to browse books by level, cover color, and more. There's even a great selection of books in different languages (see the Arabic selections)—imagine all the [...]

Read Across America Day is March 2!

Read Across America Day is March 2 this year. Each year on or near Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)’s birthday, the National Education Association sponsors this event in the hopes of allowing every child to be read to by a caring adult. This is a wonderful cause, and this year I’ll be participating by [...]