[MOSAIC] Carbo Recorded Books

[CNJPALMER at aol.com]

Here are our school, we did not buy the prerecorded tapes and perhaps that  
is why we have had a little different experience. I bought Carbo's book and a  
sample tape and have tried to record my own books for two individual third  
grade readers for whom nothing else has seemed to work. I have had HUGE  gains 
with one student (one year in three months time) and modest  but measureable 
gains with the other. It IS time consuming to record my own  books, but it has 
the advantage of allowing me to record books the students  are very interested 
in (which helps them to track and follow along).You have to  experiment with 
how much to record on a tape side and the speed with which  you record the 
tape.You also really have to hold them accountable by letting  them read back to 
you! The students I have tried it with are dyslexic  and also have very high 
IQ's. I am now trying it with two more learners who  are not disabled but slow 
learners. We'll see how they  do. Interestingly, I just saw Tim Rasinski speak 
and he has done some  research on tape-assisted reading and seen real positive 
gains. What I have  seen with my two students seems to support that research. 
 
 
My goal is to train a few more parent volunteers and match them to disabled  
readers and see what comes of it! I think it has real possibilities for more  
global rather than analytic learners...
Jennifer
Maryland
 
 
In a message dated 3/16/2007 8:04:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
BilsCntsa at aol.com writes:

A few  years back our school had a large grant and had the Carbo tapes and a  
 
lot of other resources and training from the company. After time, we  have  
discarded most of the tapes. They are not an example of fluent  reading, it 
is  
very slow reading. The students would not follow  along and track, they would 
 
become bored. At the time it seemed like  a good thing, however it never 
proved  
to be very good or helpful to  many of our struggling readers.
Terry/Fl







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