Reading Buddies: Using iPods as a tool for Reading Literacy

Redmond SD Title 1 Reading teachers are piloting the use of iPods to increase reading fluency. Coined the ‘Reading Buddies’ program, 5 schools are using iPod Shuffles to have students listen to teacher created recordings which will helps kids with vocabulary, fluency, alphabetic principle, rhyming, phoneme segmentation and literature. Test scores related to fluency will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of this innovative use of technology.