Here are our school, we did not buy the prerecorded tapes and perhaps that is why we have had a little different experience. I bought Carbo's book and a sample tape and have tried to record my own books for two individual third grade readers for whom nothing else has seemed to work. I have had HUGE gains with one student (one year in three months time) and modest but measureable gains with the other. It IS time consuming to record my own books, but it has the advantage of allowing me to record books the students are very interested in (which helps them to track and follow along).You have to experiment with how much to record on a tape side and the speed with which you record the tape.You also really have to hold them accountable by letting them read back to you! The students I have tried it with are dyslexic and also have very high IQ's. I am now trying it with two more learners who are not disabled but slow learners. We'll see how they do. Interestingly, I just saw Tim Rasinski speak and he has done some research on tape-assisted reading and seen real positive gains. What I have seen with my two students seems to support that research. My goal is to train a few more parent volunteers and match them to disabled readers and see what comes of it! I think it has real possibilities for more global rather than analytic learners... Jennifer Maryland In a message dated 3/16/2007 8:04:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few years back our school had a large grant and had the Carbo tapes and a lot of other resources and training from the company. After time, we have discarded most of the tapes. They are not an example of fluent reading, it is very slow reading. The students would not follow along and track, they would become bored. At the time it seemed like a good thing, however it never proved to be very good or helpful to many of our struggling readers. Terry/Fl ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
