The new technology that is allowing more children to read and

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Introduction : Digital Book Talk Examples

Digital Booktalk: Pairing books with potential readers

ASR technology for children with dyslexia

Using Audio Books to Improve Reading and Academic Performance

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Digital Book Talk examples on Youtube.com. Click on the pictures below to be redirected to the videos.

Digital Book Talk 1 Digital Book

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Robert KennyGlenda GunterUniversity of Central Florida

Digital Book Talk is a site that provides students with a way to increases their interest and knowledge about certain books they may choose to read.

Provides a tool to help students match their interest to book titles.

Book trailers to help pick and engage a childs interest, desinged exactly like movie trailers.

Activities to provide background on the book and characters to famarlize the child to the book.

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This article approaches technology assistance for children with dyslexia

Though wrote for the country of Malaysia many of the programs are used in the USA.

Children with disabilities need immediate intervention to correct problems in reading and pronunciation.

Immediate intervention software is used to facilitate individual instruction.

Program would listen and correct reading mistakes immediately.

If a student pauses or asks a question the program would provide assistance.

Two programs available are Colorado Literacy Tutor and Listen’s Reading Tutor.

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Go phonics CD-ROM Language tune-up kit CD-ROM TextHelp TTS Word processing support Kurzweil 3000 TTS Users can scan books/reading

material and it will read out to them Clicker 4 TTS Word processing support, read aloud Readplease TTS “Read” aloud text from web

pages/emails Helpread TTS Read-along software while user are

reading WordQ TTS Writing tool (typing), suggest words,

provide speech feedback Dragon naturally speaking ASR Dictation software Via voice ASR Dictation software

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This article addresses the need for improving the reading level of students lacking the skill

Students who read at below grade level usually get left behind and frustrated causing academic and behavioral problems

Audio books are a tool that can be used to increase enthusiasm and reading level

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Audio books are recorded at a slower pace allowing slower readers to follow along better

English learners can learn sound differences between words and letters

Allows parents to participate in the child's reading and learn themselves if needed

Audio books are available on cd’s and cassettes

Can be find in a variety of places and types for either academic or pleasure reading

Repetitive exposure allows students to enhance their vocabulary

Teachers can provide audio support for many of the books read in class, to help students who have slower reading skills keep up

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Kenny, R., & Gunter, G. (2004). Digital booktalk: pairing books with potential readers. Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 330-338.

Husni, H. & Jamaludin, Z. (2009). Asr technology for children with dyslexia: enabling immediate intervention to support reading in bahasa melayu. US-China Education Review, 6(6)

Montgomery, J.R. (2009). Using Audio books to improve reading and academic performance. Independent on ERIC, Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/44/cc/38.pdf