Affordable, Effective Strategies with Audio

With the budget constraints imposed on so many educators today, it can be hard to get administrators to approve more costly items. Though audiobooks and Playaways may seem to fall under that category, there are many reasons why audio is an affordable and effective solution for your school. Do you have any tricks for fitting [...]

Help for ESL and ELL

Hello, visitors from ESL Magazine! If you’re looking for information on how audiobooks can benefit your ESL learners, check out our resources at the Recorded Books website or peruse this article from former ESL instructor Shari Quan-Rios. Audiobooks are an invaluable way to help students learn the English language while improving their English reading skills. [...]

You think recorded books are important for…

…everything! Our June survey at recordedbooks.com asked what you think recorded books are most important for. 35% said audio is most important for reluctant readers, 29% said students with IEPs, 21% said below grade readers, and 15% said English language learners.
Audio is useful in all these areas for the same reasons: it gives struggling [...]

Audiobooks Help ESL Students Achieve Success

ESL students have higher test scores, increased fluency, and more confidence when they use audiobooks
An article by former ESL teacher Shari Quan-Rios
It is a known fact that English is one of the hardest languages to learn, and more and more teachers are turning to audiobooks as the ESL solution. They are proven effective in increasing [...]