Idea Champion: Kellie Theisen, 2nd Grade Teacher, CPS⚡️
Problem⚡️
Struggling readers, who outside of the schools walls have few people to sit and read with them, are often also not in language-rich environments. To help them grow in reading they need to see words in print and be able to hear those words (correctly). Not everyone will love reading, but for struggling readers it is a chore.
Proposed Solution⚡️
Lets create the opportunity for every student to be read to every day. Using technology this can happen for ALL students. I want to provide struggling readers a resource to hear someone reading to them on a nightly basis. Each night they could leave with an MP3 player, headphones, and books from school! This provides students an alternative to using a smartphone of parents/aunts/uncles and does not require internet service.
BONUS: older students can be the storytellers, or narrators - the possibilities are endless
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