Recorded Books

[hoptech]

I just received grant monies for Recorder Books (books on tapes) and now have no clue as to which ones to purchase. I am interested in Nonfiction for below-level readers for grades 4-8 who are at 2nd-3rd grade level. I went to recordedbooks.com and they have a ton of books on tape; it only confussed me more. Has anyone else used or heard of anyone who has used books on tape with their students? If so, which ones did you like? Help.......

 

[SLPWendy]

Have you looked at the Start-to-Finish books from Don Johnston? I think it depends on what the goal is here - do you want the students to "jut listen", or also see the text, like on the computer screen? Do you have a membership to the RFBD? (Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic) I'm not sure what membership costs, but it certainly would give you options. Also, have you considered purchasing a scanner and OCR software (like WYNN or Kurzweil, or Premiere Accessibility Suite) so that you could just scan in books and they would be read? Just a few possibilities...