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Looking for a fun way to help some students with required Shakespeare reading? Try Shakespeare on Playaway! Our Playaway Shakespeare titles are all full-cast recordings from SmartPass, the award-winning audio company that makes our SmartPass Guides to Shakespeare. We’re sure the Bard himself would approve! Our Shakespeare titles on Playaway include: ~ King Lear • [...]
…everything! Our June survey at recordedbooks.com asked what you think recorded books are most important for. 35% said audio is most important for reluctant readers, 29% said students with IEPs, 21% said below grade readers, and 15% said English language learners. Audio is useful in all these areas for the same reasons: it gives struggling [...]
We are now offering a series of FREE lesson plans on the blog, with downloadable audio available for a limited time. This is a great opportunity to see first-hand what other educators are doing with audiobooks, and to give audiobooks in the classroom a risk-free try yourself! This month’s free audio lesson guide is for [...]
In our follow-up visit to White Marsh Elementary, we again got some great feedback from the teachers and students. The kids especially love the Playaway audiobooks. Check back soon—we’ll be running a series of feature stories Mrs. Cord and Mrs. McGrath shared with us about how audiobooks changed their classroom experience. The first batch of [...]
The award-winning SmartPass Audio Guides to Shakespeare are exclusively available from Recorded Books. SmartPass creator Phil Viner recently sat with us to discuss the benefits of using audio to teach Shakespeare, and how SmartPass Guides can help engage students in the study of Shakespeare. Also, check out SmartPass’s home on the web, where you can [...]
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