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03 April 2020
African Storybook remains your reading partner during the worldwide collective pause
Last week we brought you Activity 1 on how you can explore and rely on African Storybook and our partner networks for reading resources . We hope you and  your families remain safe and follow all the suggested precautions for your continued safety. Activity 2 is about our Reader App and our extensive library of picture storybooks you can access for your children.

African Storybook Reader App Quick Facts

  •  The African Storybook Reader App which is free to download from Google Play or Apple's App Store and provides access to the same resources as our website.
  • The African Storybook Reader has a unique collection of over 1000 approved picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. 
  • The storybooks are developed in the contexts of use. They speak to the experiences of young African children particularly in rural and peri-urban contexts where the shortage of material for early reading in a familiar language is felt most acutely.
  • The storybooks are openly licensed – free to use, distribute and adapt without the requirement to ask permission and pay a fee. Users are requested to observe the licence (Creative Commons Attribution or Non-Commercial) and attribute all those who contributed to the story (authors, illustrators, translators) the copyright holders, and the African Storybook initiative as a publisher.

Activity 2:
Explore the African Storybook Reader App

You can download the app on the Google Play Store and Apple App store to begin your exploration.
The African Storybook Reader allows the user to EXPLORE the collection of approved storybooks, and then download them in the desired languages into an offline library to READ.
On EXPLORE, storybooks can be searched by language, latest stories, title, date and reading level.
How to Use the App - Follow these Steps:
Download Links
Click on the Image and it will take you to the Apple App Store link
Click on the image and it will take you to the Google Play Store link

end of activity 2

For more information on how to choose the stories please look at the Preparing to Use African Storybooks with Children Guide  
 The activities and resources in the guide are designed to help you explore the growing African Storybook website collection of storybooks, with your children in mind.
We share with you our ideas of what a good storybook is, and how African Storybook educators have selected storybooks with a particular purpose and group of children.
We also give examples of ways to access and read the storybooks with children – digitally or in print.

Resources for Teachers:
ASb TESSA BOC Early Reading Course

 The TESSA-African Storybook Early Reading Badged Open Course (BOC) empowers teachers to develop contextually appropriate, effective activities which actively engage early readers. You will find examples of practice and activities that support collaboration and reflection, rather than prescriptive lesson plans. The course looks at theoretical concepts behind teaching early literacy, and offers resources and methods for making environments which prepare very young children for reading. The TESSA-AfricanStorybook BOC content is available online but can be downloaded and completed offline. This course is not a single event. It can be completed by an individual teacher or teacher educator, or by a group of professionals meeting regularly to complete the activities. A facilitator’s guide can help you to facilitate these collaborative sessions.

Welcome to Teaching early reading in Africa – with African Storybook, a course that introduces you to active teaching approaches that you can use to teach early reading. You will have the opportunity to practise new approaches in your classroom in a structured and supported way.

We hope this course opens up possibilities for your teaching and gives you the confidence to experiment with new approaches. It provides ideas and tools that will enable you to become more expert in the field of early reading.

You can study on your own, or with a group of colleagues. If internet access is a problem, note that you can download all the course content (except for the quizzes) and study offline.

This course is free and gives you the opportunity to earn a digital badge as a recognition of your learning. To access the course materials, pass the quizzes and collect the badge, you’ll need to enrol. If you already have an Open University account, you need to sign in before you enrol. Otherwise, it’s easy to create one.
 Click here  to download your Teaching early reading in Africa – with African Storybook Facilitators Handbook.
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