A Charlottesville, Virginia, school is using them with a group of 8 and 9 year olds. It is a grant-funded project and the reading teacher, who teaches all the schools 3rd graders, feels that it books the students’ reading and critical-thinking skills, regardless of reading level.
Text to speech is valuable here, she says, because it helps the students learn difficult words without having to spend all their energy decoding them.
Thanks to Resource Shelf for the link.
