Nowadays these might be called audiobooks (since there are popular sites that use digital files instead of tapes) and radio plays. Audiobooks generally refers to ones with a single narrator. Radio plays might be a suitable term for many of the recordings, because for a number of them he added music, sound effects, and had different people voice acting the various roles. The classes read along with the tapes. For some slow readers this increased their reading proficiency level by as much as three years, in the timespan of one school-year.

Please note: we have a separate, more detailed list, that specifiesthe number of tapes, chapters or acts, and duration, for most of these.

  • Aesop’s Fables
  • Alice in Wonderland book on tape
  • Alice in Wonderland radio play
  • Wonderland Revisited (written by his 6th graders) 
  • Animal Farm
  • Call It Courage
  • Cheaper by the Dozen
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Dawn
  • Don Quixote synopsis with music from Man of La Mancha
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Hobbit
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Incredible Journey
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Johnny Tremain
  • The Jungle Book
  • Macbeth
  • Macbeth - Story from Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 
  • The Member of the Wedding
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Night
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Our Town
  • The Pearl
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Pygmalion with music from My Fair Lady
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • The Red Pony
  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Romeo and Juliet: Story from Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 
  • Sounder
  • Tom Sawyer
  • Treasure Island
  • Walkabout
  • The Wind in the Willows
  • Wayfarers All
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • The Yearling
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