Reading Audiobooks
Matthew and guest host Tirzah Price talk about the booming audiobook industry, the literacy benefits of audiobooks, and some of the stories and story narrators we can’t stop thinking about. Listen here
Enhancing Literacy Skills Using Audiobooks
(Tampere University of Applied Sciences) Audiobooks open a world of opportunity to anyone interested in reading yet might not have the time to sit down with a book for over an hour a day. Audiobooks can transform our daily car,…
Yes, parents, there is a magic formula to keep your kids reading through the summer
(Washington Post) Yes, parents, there really is a magic formula to keep your kids reading through the summer and beyond. The secret ingredient? You. Research shows that reading during the summer helps kids minimize the “summer slide,” the drop-off in…
Can audiobooks be the great equalizer for students with learning differences?
(eSchool News) Low reading ability is a major contributor to learning inequality in our schools. An estimated 26 million students have learning differences, including tens of thousands of students with dyslexia, a neurological condition that affects reading and related language-based…
Direct Teaching of Vocabulary?
In a recent white paper from Stephen Krashen and Beniko Mason, published in the Journal of English Language Teaching, the authors strongly suggest that direct teaching of vocabulary is not as efficient as acquiring vocabulary via listening the stories, and…
Is Listening to a Book Just as Good as Reading It?
(New York Times) In the Opinion essay “Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It,?” Daniel T. Willingham, a psychologist, compares the benefits of reading a book with the advantages of listening to one: A few years…
Top 5 Digital Transformation Trends In Education For 2019
(Forbes) Let’s face it: the education sector—especially K-12 public school systems—aren’t usually the earliest adopters of new technology. Despite the fact that they’re equipping our children for the future, they don’t always move the fastest to get there. For that…
Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?
(The New York Times) Our children aren’t being taught to read in ways that line up with what scientists have discovered about how people actually learn. It’s a problem that has been hiding in plain sight for decades. According to…