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"Of all the things I did in my classroom, audiobooks made the single biggest difference in increasing reading ability in my students," says Janet Allen, author of Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12 (Stenhouse). Audiobooks, says Allen, bridge the gap between adolescent reading vocabulary and listening vocabulary, which is actually higher for struggling readers.
How can you increase reading comprehension with recorded books? Just listen: