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Message: Hello! I saw this Tried & Tested Review on Teach Primary Magazine's website and thought you might like it - please find an excerpt below: Onilo Lou Reed once told us a perfect day was drinking sangria in the park, feeding animals in the zoo and going to the movies. He may be right. But I’d say that my perfect teaching day would have to include Onilo as well. If you haven’t heard of Onilo yet then that’s probably because it’s only just moved into the area and is just getting to know everyone. I can see straight away though that it is going to have no trouble at all settling in and becoming a very popular member and key part of the educational community. If you are a subject leader for literacy then grab yourself a coffee and listen carefully. Onilo is an online portal (it means happy in Finnish) and provides teachers with attention-grabbing, animated and digitalised editions of children’s picture books called Boardstories. Now before you say that there is nothing new in that actually there is. Okay animated stories have been around for a while but not necessarily in one place. What we have here then is a first because Onilo is an animated library with plenty of added value. What Boardstories aim to do is to spark a thirst for literacy in primary pupils by building a channel tunnel between the digital world and the traditional printed world so they are both more accessible. It’s ambitious and that’s why I like it. Onilo has my attention because this type of resource has huge potential to reduce barriers to learning and it is inclusive depending on the reading material chosen of course. At the moment the library is fairly small with just 48 titles to choose from but it is ever-expanding and more shelves are being stacked in January 2014. For now you’ll find well-known titles such as Day Monkey, Night Monkey by Julia Donaldson and The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Other top stories include a retelling of Alice in Wonderland and an interactive Three Billy Goats Gruff. The books have really been brought to life although not in an over the top way. These are partial animations and so I think Onilo have digitised them at the right level without compromising the importance of the text. The available titles cover a variety of themes and topics to interest readers of all ages, abilities and interests from adventure and animals to weather and witches. I think they will be especially useful for… If you want to read the full article, please visit: https://www.teachprimary.com/tried_and_tested/view/onilo Thanks!