How a Jingle Dog Can Help Kids Read
My daughter was given a Hallmark book that comes with a dog that makes different sounds at different parts of the book in response to preprogrammed phrases. It got me thinking about how cool it would be to have a piece of technology that was preprogrammed with a story and proper pronunciation. When students read the book if they mispronounce the word they could be automatically corrected with the proper way of saying the word.
Although a teacher would still be involved with helping students improve their reading fluency, having a piece of technology like this would help struggling readers because it allows them to do more reading out loud and not have to wait for other kids ahead of them in the row.
To make the system even more automated, the system could send a report to the teacher with the problem words or phrases so the teacher could work more quickly one on one with struggling readers.
This doesn’t replace a teacher, it would just give us another tool.z
