About Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books
NOW AVAILABLE ON CHROMEBOOK! Welcome to Novel Effect — an award-winning app that follows your voice as you read out loud from a children’s story book and responds at just the right moment with interactive music, sound...
NOW AVAILABLE ON CHROMEBOOK!
Welcome to Novel Effect — an award-winning app that follows your voice as you read out loud from a children’s story book and responds at just the right moment with interactive music, sound effects, and character voices. Bring the story to life, promote literacy, imagination, and fun for kids 12 & under!
In the classroom or at home, see why parents and teachers alike say Novel Effect “…turns reading time into a magical experience." - App Store Review.
There are 3 versions of the Novel Effect service accessible through the app. New books are added weekly.
FREE
Free Novel Effect offers hundreds of soundscapes for a library of children’s books curated for teachers, librarians, kids and families. Enjoy limited access to soundscapes for free when you bring your own copy of the print book or ebook!
PREMIUM
For families and individual educators, Novel Effect Premium offers unlimited access to a library of kid friendly content. Enjoy soundscapes for popular children’s books when you bring your own copy of the book, or read aloud from hundreds of in-app eBooks, including non-fiction and early reader chapter books, as well as exclusive members-only content.
CLASSROOM
For educators, Novel Effect Premium Classroom offers unlimited access to Premium features and content for one teacher and up to 30 students in a safe and secure environment. Overwhelmingly, educators say reading with Novel Effect is more engaging, creating motivated, confident, and empowered readers.
HOW IT WORKS
Novel Effect’s service follows along as you read out loud, playing interactive music, sound effects, and character voices in response to your voice. Our library includes a wide variety of high-quality soundscapes for carefully selected family friendly books to engage and promote imagination and learning, updated weekly with new titles! Hundreds of titles are available as in-app eBooks, some titles may require you to read aloud from your own copy.
FIND - Use search or browse our collections to find the book you want to read out loud.
PLAY - Tap the cover and then choose how you’ll be reading — with print or an eBook.
READ - When you hear the chime, start reading aloud!
LISTEN - Hear the music and sounds respond to your voice and change with the story.
Add a little magic to story time with Novel Effect.
OUR LIBRARY
Our growing in-app library is curated for teachers, librarians, kids and families. New titles are added regularly - including classics, bestsellers, new releases, hidden gems, and more. Discover your next great story time read aloud here!
Find hundreds of family and classroom favorites covering themes and topics perfect for learning, teaching, and enjoying again and again. Free in-app ebooks and poetry are also included.
KEY FEATURES
• Hundreds of books with more added weekly
• Also includes Spanish books
• Online and offline reading
• A reading log tracks books you’ve read with the app
• Access Novel Effect’s digital library and soundscapes on almost any device
SAFETY, PRIVACY, AND SUPPORT
- Novel Effect requires access to the device's microphone to perform voice-recognition.
- The privacy of kids and their grown-ups is our top priority. Voice-recognition is performed on your device, no voice data is saved without express consent.
- Please go to http://www.noveleffect.com/privacy-policy or www.noveleffect.com/classroom-privacy-policy to learn more.
Novel Effect was featured on Shark Tank, The TODAY Show, and in Forbes, Variety, Lifehacker, and more.
A Parents’ Choice and Mom’s Choice app, a Webby and Cynopsis Award winner for best interactive experience, and an AASL Best Digital Tools winner.
Terms of Service
https://www.noveleffect.com/terms-of-service
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books since it was posted on our website on 2019-07-05 12:33:43.
The latest version is 3.5.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-01 23:18:45. See below the changes in each version.
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 3.5.0
Updated At: 2024-03-22
Changes: What's New:
• Print book activity plans right from the app
• New and improved book reader interface
• Other bug fixes and updates
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 3.3.1
Updated At: 2023-09-19
Changes: What's New:
• A brand new search experience, located in the Browse tab!
• Added new login options for district plan customers
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 3.2.1
Updated At: 2023-08-07
Changes: What's New:
A brand new search experience, located in the Browse tab!
• See suggestions for titles, series, authors, and illustrators as you type in the search bar
• Browse our soundscape catalog by topic, age range, and other relevant categories
• Filter your search results by language, in-app ebooks, and other key features
• Sort collections and search results by popularity
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 3.1.2
Updated At: 2023-05-19
Changes: Performance improvements, bug fixes, and visual improvements
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 3.1.1
Updated At: 2023-03-09
Changes: For those with devices that want to be a laptop and a phone, this is the release for you! Chromebooks are now officially supported.
Currently we have restricted sizing to a mobile layout with plans to support full screen soon.
Performance improvements, bug fixes, and visual improvements
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 2.3.7
Updated At: 2022-04-25
Changes: - Lots of performance improvements, bug fixes, and visual improvements
- Crash fixes for when a user's session expired or the user logged out
- Updated email validation when logging in
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 2.3.5
Updated At: 2021-03-30
Changes: . Performance improvements and bug fixes
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 2.1.2
Updated At: 2021-01-05
Changes: . General bug fixes and performance improvements
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 2.1.1
Updated At: 2020-12-15
Changes: . Made it easier to delete soundscapes from the My Downloads list
. Fixed an issue with Classroom accounts favorites and recent activity lists
. Lots of performance and visual improvements and bug fixes
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books version 2.0.0
Updated At: 2020-09-19
Changes: . You can now subscribe to access hundreds of in-app books.
. Performance improvements and visual updates.
We're always looking to improve. If you have feedback or suggestions send an email to
[email protected]
Disclaimer
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