Storybooks Canada

Resources

Public Conversation

Leandro Paladino and Christina Richardson with Agustina Merlotti, Laura Rodríguez and Emiliano Tisano: The story continues…: How digital multilingual story books can be used to decolonise (language) learning and provide a start point for exploring the Sustainable Development Goals (EAL Journal, Autumn 2021).
Lesley Koyi: The story of Lesley Koyi’s stories on the African Storybook website (African Storybook, 2022).
Asma Afreen: Translator identity and the development of multilingual resources for language learning (TESOL Quarterly, 2022).
Rahat Zaidi, Robin Metcalfe, and Bonny Norton: Dual language books go digital: Storybooks Canada in French immersion schools and homes (Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022).
Bonny Norton on heritage language learning (CBC Radio, 2021).
Bonny Norton on multilingual literacy and identity (CiTR Radio, 2021).
Asma Afreen and Bonny Norton: COVID-19 and heritage learning: How community-based language schools are adapting to the pandemic (The Globe and Mail, 2021).
Brigette Manion: Storybooks UK — ‘Andiswa, Fußballstar’ (EAL Journal, 2020).
Justine Younie-Gillham: Using ‘Storybooks Canada’ in the Classroom (EAL Journal, 2020).
Quarante contes africains traduits en créole mauricien (Article in Mauritian media, August 2020).
App helps translate stories in multiple Indigenous languages (Mitacs Impact, July 2020).
Bonny Norton and Liam Doherty: Global Storybooks for multilingual UK classrooms (EAL Journal, 2020).
Michelle Gilman and Bonny Norton: Storybooks Canada, English language learners, and the school curriculum (BC TEAL Journal, 2020).
Bonny Norton, Espen Stranger-Johannessen, and Liam Doherty: Global Storybooks: From Arabic to Zulu, freely available digital tales in 50+ languages (The Conversation, January 2020).
Asma Afreen, Bonny Norton, and Janet Jamieson: Our Multilingual Village Symposium and Storybooks Canada Public Launch (November 2019).
Michelle Gilman: Using Storybooks Canada and Other Digital Stories to Honour Diversity within the Classroom (English Practice, 2018).
Espen Stranger-Johannessen, Liam Doherty, and Bonny Norton: The African Storybook and Storybooks Canada: Digital Stories for Linguistically Diverse Children (Language and Literacy, 2018).
Rahat Zaidi: A proposal for 21st century education: An introduction to dual language book reading (KONECT Teaching Materials, 2018).
Espen Stranger-Johannessen and Bonny Norton: Storybooks Canada: A digital resource for multilingual education (BC TEAL Newsletter, Fall 2017).
Jan Hare and colleagues: Digital storytelling and reconciliation (Reflections of Canada: Illuminating our opportunities and challenges at 150+ years, 2017).
Jim Anderson, Marianne McTavish, and Ji Eun Kim: Early literacy learning for immigrant and refugee children: Parents’ critical roles. (International Literacy Association, 2017).
Bonny Norton and Tessa Welch: Digital stories could hold the key to multilingual literacy for African children (The Conversation, May 2015).
Espen Stranger-Johannessen: African stories to get and keep kids reading during school holidays (The Conversation, December 2015).
Ron Darvin and Bonny Norton: Transnational identity and migrant language learners: The promise of digital storytelling (The Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2014).

Videos

Teaching Resources

Storybooks Canada Teaching Guide for English Language Learners - Ingrid Schechter and Bonny Norton, 2020
Storybooks Canada Wordlists - A collection of automatically generated corpus-informed keyword lists for each story and language on the Storybooks Canada website. They have been designed to be printed and used at home or in the classroom as supplementary exercises after reading any of the stories on the site.
Storybooks Canada Cloze Tests - A collection of automatically generated audio-enhanced cloze tests for each story and language on the Storybooks Canada website.