App Detail » One More Story

Published by: One More Story, Inc

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 2.5.11
Released: July 17, 2012

What's New

Bug fixes and app improvements

App Description

Instill a love reading with One More Story, an online library of the best of classic and contemporary picture books read aloud.

To access to the One More Story library, you must be a paid subscriber to One More Story. You will need Internet access while using this app. The app streams large multimedia files.

One More Story received the James Patterson PageTurner Award for finding "original and effective ways to spread the excitement of books and reading."

Other awards --

- Parents' Choice Award
- Teachers' Choice Award
- School Library Journal's Top Ten Digital Resources

Featuring picture books from well known authors and publishers, soundtracks composed by the former music director of Sesame Street, and narration by professional actors, One More Story allows beginning readers to experience the wonder of quality literature before they are fully effective readers.

Empowered by our unique scaffolding process, students can listen and follow along with highlighted text as a story is read to them, or read it themselves in the I Can Read It mode, clicking on words to hear them read aloud.

- Dynamic library of over 80 classic and contemporary favorites added to continually

- Original music by former music director of Sesame Street

- More than 25 professional actors provide a variety of narrative voices

- Vocabulary (new feature!) helps early readers learn the meanings of more advanced words

- Individual word highlighting synced to the narration allows children to organically learn the connection between the spoken and written word

- Listening Game (for school use only) assesses student comprehension at the end of selected texts

- Titles by Cynthia Ryland, Ezra Jack Keats, Eve Bunting, Bernard Most, and others