Listen to Audio While Reading Ebook Online!

EMC has downloadable audio available for most selections in the Mirrors & Windows Common Core State Standards Editions. To run an audio while reading the book online or with the CD you would
1) Go to the mirrorsandwindows.com site and locate the selection within the Audio tab
2) Download the audio folder to your computer. (You may also run the audio directly from the site but downloading is easier to manipulate once you open your online or CD edition).
3) Open up the Audio and the player window will appear. Push the pause button.
4) Open up the selection you are reading. Once opened, minimize the textbook window, push the play button on the audio player, and then maximize your textbook window.
5) The student now will be able to read the text while listening to the Audio!

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

For the holidays, make sure to check out the dramatic audio recording of Israel Horowitz's A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley in the EMC Audio Program, Mirrors & Windows Level II, Unit 7. Horowitz's play, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, has been recorded in its entirety for you and your students' listening enjoyment. The Audio Program for all seven levels of Mirrors & Windows grades 6-12 can be accessed at www.mirrorsandwindows.com. Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

YALSA!! Books with Beat!

It’s Teen Read Week™ (October 17-23) and the theme this year is Books with Beat @ your library®, encouraging teens to read and listen to poetry, audiobooks, and books about music. Librarians and educators across the country are celebrating this week with a variety of events and programs, many offering free reading materials, to promote teen reading for enjoyment.

How can you participate in Teen Reading Week in your own classroom? Check out the Mirrors & Windows Audio Program on the Internet Resource center at http://www.mirrorsandwindows.com/ to find audio recordings of poems about music such Billy Collins’ “Man Listening to Disc” and “The Blues” (grade 11 American Tradition), and traditional and contemporary songs such as “John Henry Blues” (grade 8), “Go Down, Moses” and Lucy Kaplansky’s “Land of the Living” (grade 10), and “Bonny Barbara Allen” and Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” (grade 12 British Tradition).

Teen Read Week is an initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), started in 1998. Visit their site for additional program planning ideas, resources, or planning tools. You can even find a Books with Beat@ your library reading list in Spanish!

Introducing the new EMC Audio Library Audio Player!

All of your favorite mirrorsandwindows.com audio files are now playing in our new flash-based audio player. The new player is simple to use, and includes two convenient playback features:
• Streaming – You don’t have to wait for the entire file to download before you can start playing it. Simply hit play, and the audio selection will start. The rest of the file will continue to download while you’re listening. No waiting!
• Downloading – Need to save the file locally, or want to load it in your iPod or other mp3 player? Just click the download button and you’ll be prompted to save the file – complete with audio tags – to your computer!

Check out the audio recordings at mirrorsandwindows.com! Choose your grade level, unit, and selection, and select the Audio Program tab under Resources. It's as simple as that.