OverDrive Ebooks and Audiobooks
Available Now to All DPS Students and Staff!
Top 5 Reasons Why All Students Need Access to Ebooks and Audiobooks
2. Ebook features such as dyslexic font, limiting the amount of text on a page, and using the interactive dictionary increase student engagement with text.
3. Experiences reading and manipulating digital documents prepare students for digital assessments.
4. Audiobooks support reading fluency and language skills by providing students with an opportunity to listen to books read aloud by professional readers who have mastered inflection, dialect, and difficult vocabulary and/or pronunciation.
5. Audiobooks allow students reading below grade level to listen to the same grade-level texts as their classmates and enjoy the experience of listening to books they want to read.
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Benefits of Audiobooks
"Listeners and readers retain about equal understanding of the passages they've consumed" (Dahl, 2016).
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