Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Kindles will enable me to provide appropriate texts to my struggling readers privately. I can upload and assign easier-to-read texts, perhaps supplemented with some free-choice texts. Classmates need not be aware of what others are reading.
Voice-to-text is another feature of the e-readers that can support English language learners. My readers can bring or use the class headphones so that they could listen to sections of their e-books. This feature is known to help them gain confidence with ELL’s in reading and speaking. The listening is so crucial to ELL’s learning English and the readers will allow them ample opportunities to listen to text awhile reading along. They can keep up with their classmates that are reading books in class such as Wonder and Blood on the River.
eBooks and audio books will promote fluency through careful listening, matching spoken words with the same ones in print and intensive instruction. When students learn a new language with this kind of holistic approach, they will engage with fluency and literacy in a more meaningful way, accelerating the learning process. Literacy is more than just reading. A fact for ELL students that are learning to speak, understand and read English will help improve learning outcomes. Having access to the Kindles will not only engage the students, but they will have opportunities to follow the text in multiple ways.
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Kindles will enable me to provide appropriate texts to my struggling readers privately. I can upload and assign easier-to-read texts, perhaps supplemented with some free-choice texts. Classmates need not be aware of what others are reading.
Voice-to-text is another feature of the e-readers that can support English language learners. My readers can bring or use the class headphones so that they could listen to sections of their e-books. This feature is known to help them gain confidence with ELL’s in reading and speaking. The listening is so crucial to ELL’s learning English and the readers will allow them ample opportunities to listen to text awhile reading along. They can keep up with their classmates that are reading books in class such as Wonder and Blood on the River.
eBooks and audio books will promote fluency through careful listening, matching spoken words with the same ones in print and intensive instruction. When students learn a new language with this kind of holistic approach, they will engage with fluency and literacy in a more meaningful way, accelerating the learning process. Literacy is more than just reading. A fact for ELL students that are learning to speak, understand and read English will help improve learning outcomes. Having access to the Kindles will not only engage the students, but they will have opportunities to follow the text in multiple ways.