Hi Kathryn,

Our district has a subscription and I think that it's helpful. It is not for all students, students must struggle with decoding, fluency, or reading comprehension, or be blind, visually impaired, or have a physical disability that prevents them from reading standard print. An IEP or 504 plan is not required. They have audiobooks and many read along options (audiobook and online text that is highlighted and read to the student). I think that it has the most options for read along books available. A teacher or librarian needs to assign the books to students, they aren't able to search and read it by themselves.

If you get it, definitely make yourself an account so that you can search for books and assign them to students. Or, you can recommend the titles to classroom teachers or Special Ed teachers that can assign them.

I think it's a worthwhile audiobook/read along tool. We use it alongside our Sora accounts, Bookshare, and playaways that students check out from the library.

Rachel Stieber,
Sage Park Middle School, Windsor

 

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 5:47 PM LaFlamme, Kristin via CASL-L <casl-l@mylist.net> wrote:
I use it as a 5th grade classroom teacher so I can’t speak to library usage. It’s definitely increased reading engagement within my classroom. It’s for students with reading impairments, however if students want to try audiobooks, I hook them up with it. There’s a wide variety of books on there. Not necessarily the newest ones. You can assign books to certain kids. There’s no borrowing of a book, so the kids can have it for as long as needed. I’m not sure I’d see much of an advantage of it as a library tool, but I’ve loved it for my 5th graders! Most books are voice text, which means the book pages are on the screen and it highlights as the audio reads to them. Some are classic audio, just listening. It’s great for book clubs because you don’t need physical multi copies. Let me know if you have any other questions! 

Kristin LaFlamme
Wells Road Intermediate School
5th Grade Language Arts
860-844-3048





On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 4:20 PM Jenny Lussier <jlussier@rsd13.org> wrote:
I would be interested in learning about this too!

Thank you!
Jenny

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 3:37 PM Kathryn Ferrante <kferrante@renbrook.org> wrote:
I am wondering if anybody has experience using Learning Ally for audiobooks. My school is interested in getting a site subscription, and I am curious about its uses from the library perspective.

Thank you!

Kathryn Ferrante

Renbrook School

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