Categories: Activities, Education & Teaching, Students, Uncategorized, Volunteerism
"How does it feel to meet the people who record your books?"
"It feels AWESOME! They're really cool!"
It's a magical time when students who rely on audiobooks to access grade-level text get to meet the volunteers who make it all possible. This happened recently at two Learning Ally studios - Austin, TX and Princeton, NJ.
Participating students are part of an elite group, although they tell us they don't always feel that way. Every student in attendance has a print disability, mostly dyslexia, so they are often left out of awards for reading. However, that's exactly what this field trip was all about - a reward for devouring audiobooks.
Our Texas students ranked in the top 10 nationwide in our Great Reading Games, a national ear-reading competition, and our New Jersey students are honored to have one of Learning Ally's Excellence in Teaching national award winning educators as their teacher.
"You know what's really awesome?" asks Terrie Noland, Learning Ally's National Director of Educator Engagement. "That we are all discussing BOOKS. So many times, kids who struggle with reading don't have the opportunity to discover and fall in love with new books. This is fabulous!"