Recently in the past few years, the hottest trend both at home and in the classroom in helping to read are Leap Frog's Tag Reading Pens. They are "pens" with a stainless steel tip or ball point, with a small infrared camera that reads infrared dots on pages of books. The pens can do everything from helping the child sound out a word, sound, or read an entire sentence. At the actual Leap Frog site teachers can get ideas for technology Leap Frog provides to use in their classroom. I have talked to numerous teachers in the elementary grades, who say that these pens and other things offered by Leap Frog are an inspiration to children when it comes to learning how to read in the classroom. Technology is something that is a fun learning tool for students, and at times reading isn't something that sounds fun for the students to do. By using technology, these students are getting excited about learning how to read!
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