Audio Books
Audio books are a very helpful tool for students who are struggling with decoding words, recognizing words, and comprehending text. Students can listen while following the words of a story in the book. If a student gets confused or lost as the audio book is playing, students are able to easily rewind it to a certain spot to reread the passage.
Information on Audio Books
Website:
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
This web site provides free audio books for students and teachers to download and use in the classroom.
Scholarly Articles
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
This web site provides free audio books for students and teachers to download and use in the classroom.
Scholarly Articles
Kozloff, S. (2004). Audio Books In a Visual Culture. Journal of American Culture, 18(4), 83-95.
This article explains the history and prejudices of audio books. In the past, audio books have been seen as a “lazy” or a “shortcut” way to read and this article discusses how these preconceived notions are not true. This is a great way for people to find out the importance that audio books have played in the past and currently in the present. |
Byrom, G. (2002). If You Can't Read It Then Audio Read It. Reading, 32(2), 3-6.
An important point this article makes is how audio books help students who are struggling with reading can visually follow along with text to improve their word recognition skills. This article also touches on other important points about why struggling readers would benefit from audio books. In addition, the article also explains ways to helps students with audio books, listening and reading comprehension strategies, and how to create an authentic and useful audio book. |