Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Recorded books

Within this article, a teacher shares her story about integrating recorded books to her students.  Many of these students are reading at levels lower than expected according to the grade. The implementation of applying recorded books to the reading program, gives opportunities to assist the students to grow tremendously. More than half of the students that were struggling in reading, were able to read at grade level at close to the end of the year. Another suggested website is audible.com that provides digital audio for books, newspaper articles and more.
Reading with audio is an excellent resource for students of all reading levels.  Books with a recording allows for another way of learning, providing new connections for students. These students will learn more sight words and strengthen fluency with reading. This technique will likely keep students motivated and assist in their love for reading.  There would be more positive feedback, rather than discouragement.

                                                      Reference

Rubenstein, G. (2006) Listening literature: struggling readers respond to recorded books. Retrieved from: http://www.edutopia.org/listening-literature

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