Wouldn’t it be great if your students could take their own running records? You can teach your students how to record themselves, listen for their mistakes, self-correct, and re-read for better fluency… all with GarageBand! Since today was Dr. Seuss Day, this first grade class recorded themselves reading excerpts from his books. To make it a bit more entertaining, they added a funny photo of themselves taken with the Photo Booth special effects (we did have to flip the pictures so the covers weren’t backwards, you do that by clicking Edit > Autoflip New Photos). Finally they added some music of their choice. Once they get good at this, it’s a great way for them to improve their fluency in a self-directed way. Think of how that will help your ESL students especially! Here are two examples from ESL students: Chahd and Jose.
