Burnley-Moran's third-graders are using Kindles to read as part of a program during the second half of the school year. Piloting the technology has been done in schools across the country, even as close as at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. But it could very well be the first time in the area that 8- and 9-year-olds are using them in class to read.
The article mentions the text-to-speech to help them learn difficult words, but makes no mention of the occasional mangling of pronunciations that happens with computerized text to speech systems.
Isley said this is possible because of certain features on the Kindle — such as "text-to-speech," in which a built-in computer voice starts reading the text like an audiobook — that can help students learn difficult words without spending all their energy trying to decode them.
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