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  • PS R373
  • Staten Island, NY
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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Our project, Giving Reluctant Readers/Writers Motivation to Try!, gives students highly motivating access to iPads as a tool of literacy, through reading and writing. This project will give 12 special education children access to online reading, writing, dictation programs and being read to through many accessible programs. They will have opportunities to utilize the programs that motivate them to put aside embarrassment of their inability and fears of ridicule. My students who have made their way to the upper elementary grades with limited reading/writing abilities are unable and unwilling to read aloud, openly read lower level books or try to write under the perceived scrutiny of a peer. My students suffer literacy deficits from trauma and classroom behavioral incidences that in their past has led to time away from academic classrooms. This time away has left our students severely delayed academically. In our setting we address the social emotional stress and triggers that have caused them to lose valuable classroom time but we have to play catch-up academically. Children who are delayed readers find reading on the screen engaging and reluctant writers find the experience of writing on an iPad less intimidating and more motivating than a blank page. The addition of 5 iPads will allow our students the confidence and privacy needed to explore their interests while overcoming their deficits. The literacy of children in the 21st century is influenced by the increasing importance of digital technology and young children’s increasing immersion in interactive media is necessary to foster and strengthen literacy in young learners. To ensure children’s literacy development completely, the definition of reading and writing must be broadened to include multimedia and computer-based print. This wider definition of literacy is necessary for children to emerge as fully literate in the 21st century.

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Our project, Giving Reluctant Readers/Writers Motivation to Try!, gives students highly motivating access to iPads as a tool of literacy, through reading and writing. This project will give 12 special education children access to online reading, writing, dictation programs and being read to through many accessible programs. They will have opportunities to utilize the programs that motivate them to put aside embarrassment of their inability and fears of ridicule. My students who have made their way to the upper elementary grades with limited reading/writing abilities are unable and unwilling to read aloud, openly read lower level books or try to write under the perceived scrutiny of a peer. My students suffer literacy deficits from trauma and classroom behavioral incidences that in their past has led to time away from academic classrooms. This time away has left our students severely delayed academically. In our setting we address the social emotional stress and triggers that have caused them to lose valuable classroom time but we have to play catch-up academically. Children who are delayed readers find reading on the screen engaging and reluctant writers find the experience of writing on an iPad less intimidating and more motivating than a blank page. The addition of 5 iPads will allow our students the confidence and privacy needed to explore their interests while overcoming their deficits. The literacy of children in the 21st century is influenced by the increasing importance of digital technology and young children’s increasing immersion in interactive media is necessary to foster and strengthen literacy in young learners. To ensure children’s literacy development completely, the definition of reading and writing must be broadened to include multimedia and computer-based print. This wider definition of literacy is necessary for children to emerge as fully literate in the 21st century.

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