More than 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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These headphones will enrich and enhance the print-rich classroom that I strive to create for my students. They love to listen to the books and stories that we read in class, and listening helps comprehension.
Studies have proven that listening to the audio of a text helps readers to understand what they are reading more fully. Dr. Frank Serafini, author of Audiobooks & Literacy states that hearing the sounds of spoken language while pairing those sounds with the printed word helps struggling readers to better focus on the meaning of words, rather than simply trying to recognize words in the first place. “As developing readers listen to audiobooks and follow along with a printed version of the story, they learn to match the sounds of oral language to their written counterparts. This matching of sounds to symbols is the basis for reading instruction… [and supports] struggling readers by helping them focus on meaning rather than the decoding of text.â€
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These headphones will enrich and enhance the print-rich classroom that I strive to create for my students. They love to listen to the books and stories that we read in class, and listening helps comprehension.
Studies have proven that listening to the audio of a text helps readers to understand what they are reading more fully. Dr. Frank Serafini, author of Audiobooks & Literacy states that hearing the sounds of spoken language while pairing those sounds with the printed word helps struggling readers to better focus on the meaning of words, rather than simply trying to recognize words in the first place. “As developing readers listen to audiobooks and follow along with a printed version of the story, they learn to match the sounds of oral language to their written counterparts. This matching of sounds to symbols is the basis for reading instruction… [and supports] struggling readers by helping them focus on meaning rather than the decoding of text.â€