Ncte 2007

Slide 1: Theatre of the Mind: Audiobooks Live on Stage! Bruce Coville James Howe Mary Burkey

Slide 2: Voice Voice

Slide 3: Voice is like verbal fingerprints that a writer imprints on the page. It is a mix of individuality, confidence, engagement with the topic, and reader rapport, and something that keeps the reader reading.

Slide 4: Story

Slide 5: Once upon a time, oral storytelling ruled. It was the medium through which people learned their history, settled their arguments, and came to make sense of the phenomena of their world.

Slide 6: Medium

Slide 7: a means by which something is expressed, communicated, or achieved a form of storage for computer software, such as magnetic tape or disks • Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English Third Edition

Slide 8: Audience

Slide 9: the assembled spectators or listeners at an event origin: Latin audientia, from audire ‘hear’

Slide 10: Reading

Slide 11: the action or skill of reading an interpretation of a text • Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English Third Edition

Slide 13: 2000 BCE 220 AD 1455 AD 1871 1917

Slide 14: Of the ten uses Edison envisioned for recorded sound Phonographic books were number two – and music was number four

Slide 15: Listening… Increases fluency Raises reading comprehension Enlarges vocabulary Boosts pronunciation skills Supports struggling readers Expands literature experiences for proficient readers Improves test scores

Slide 16: Evaluating Audiobooks Audio Publishers Audie Award YALSA’s Selected Audiobooks Notable Children’s Recordings Odyssey Award

Slide 17: Full Cast at Work

Slide 18: Recording Emperor Mage

Slide 19: Recording Emperor Mage

Slide 20: Recording Emperor Mage

Slide 21: Recording Emperor Mage

Slide 22: Recording Emperor Mage

Slide 23: Kissing the Bee

Slide 24: Thanks to Full Cast Audio for sponsoring the appearance of James Howe & Bruce Coville. Suggested audiobooks, resource list & outline available online http://audiobooker.blogspot.com/