Stories with recorded audio are great tools for emerging readers. A number of Web sites, such as StoryPlace and StarFall offer such resources free. Few sites, however, highlight each word as it's spoken, a feature that would benefit any K-2 student. Making your own word-by-word audio books, on the other hand, allows you to customize the content to your class as well as to highlight specific words your students need to see and hear. This techtorial demonstrates how to use PowerPoint to create such audio books.

This activity requires intermediate to advanced knowledge of PowerPoint. For a beginner's techtorial, see Creating a Class PowerPoint Presentation.

Begin the project by creating a folder in which to store all the resources you'll create for your audio book: Right-click your Desktop, click New > Folder, and type an appropriate name for the folder.

Next: Write the story!