Fourth grade teacher dramatically increased the amount of their children are reading. Visit a classroom of Altoona on Tuesday and learned about a device that is causing the interest of children in one of "the three" r "
Teresa Langlois says that she saw an increase of 50 per cent of the amount that several of their children are reading after she brought the Kindle, a wireless reading device for your classroom.
It was after she saw how excited his mother began when she received her Kindle, which Teresa Langlois thought about how the Kindle can be used in the classroom.
"I thought the Kindle would not be a great motivational tool for reluctant readers, or readers struggling," says Professor from fourth grade.
"Our readers struggling not like to read, because it is difficult, it is a challenge and can also be ashamed to pick up a book that is smaller or shorter than the books you are reading your classmates," title 1 teacher Amanda Miller tells us.
But with the Kindle, kids don't need to worry about being embarrassed.
"With" the Kindle that really help because they don't have to see the thickness of the book is, his colleagues would not have to see if you were reading a book really easy or a book really hard and it really evens the playing field for all our students, says Miller.
And children say reading with the Kindle is simply cooler than a normal book from the library.
10-Year-old Linnea McClintock "well, I like the Kindle because it maintains as many books as you want and is pretty cool because you can pick up any book you want," he says.
"I think it's more interesting and its funner than just reading a simple book," Wibel of Brayden of 9 year old tells us.
And Langlois expects only once the novelty of the Kindle, dress their children love reading remains.
Says that "it is difficult to say that you know, something new, we are keeping data, doing research and only time will tell," Langlois.
Classroom of Langlois has 12 Kindles, thanks in part to a grant, and she says she hopes to eventually increase the number of Kindles that all its students can use them together.
The 12 Kindles go home with a select group of kids each night to help them with your weekly reading assignments, the Kindles revolve fortnightly.
Langlois says that many of the books available for the Kindle are free, but even purchased books can be shared between 6 different Kindles, which makes them economically solid, an important aspect, she says in this tough economy.
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