ROCKAWAY ROTARY SUPPORTS LITERACY IN OUR SCHOOLS
Posted by Rodney Seifert
on Feb 10, 2016
The Rockaway Rotary Club continues its dedication to promote literacy by supporting the "Exciting Reluctant Readers" program at Lincoln School in Rockaway Borough. Our club was awarded a $1000 district grant from the The Rotary Foundation to assist in our efforts. Over 70 students receiving literacy support at Lincoln School will benefit from this program. Through the use of Kindles, students have access to interactive android applications that supplement their reading instruction and access to audible and e-book versions of classroom texts that are often above their reading level.
President Denise Nickel (l) and Past President Janice Christensen present
RB Superintendent of Schools MarK Schwarz with a check to support the "Exciting Reluctant Readers" program.
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The project, “Exciting Reluctant Readers” benefits more than 70 students receiving literacy support at Lincoln School and Thomas Jefferson School in Rockaway Borough. Through the use of Kindles, students have access to interactive android applications that supplement their reading instruction and access to audible and e-book versions of classroom texts that are often above their reading level. The Kindle devices serve not only as tools to strengthen the students’ basic skills through the use of application games, but as assistive technology for students who are reading below grade level. Students are able to adjust e-book text size to correspond to their individual abilities, use text-to-speech capabilities to assist in reading unknown words, receive immediate feedback to unfamiliar word definitions, and coordinate audio books to e-books to model fluent reading.