Young Adult Book Fun

Be Quiet! I’m Listening! – Incorporating Recorded Books into K-12 Literacy Strategies
Sponsored by Recorded Books

Audiobooks are a research-validated tool for improving vocabulary, comprehension and literacy skills for young readers of all abilities. Especially effective with emerging, reluctant and ESL readers, recorded book programming is simple to incorporate into the classroom curriculum, and easy on the pocketbook too.

This is a great webcast offered by School Libary Journal. There were some great ideas batted about and wonderful support for the use of audiobooks as a means to increase reading levels, reading for pleasure, and ultimately reading test scores.