MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS2Super WhySuper Why applications help children with the critical skills they need to achive the power to read. this application lets students go on letter hunts, works with letter sounds, rhyming, and allows students to select words to complete sentences. Age rating 3+Many advantages come with this application. Allowing reading to be fun and interactive will allow students to be active in their reading and eager to finish the assinment.Drawbacks- Must be able to have a device to play the application on sometimes requiring an internet connection.The Sound Out MachineThe Sounding Out Machine is an Assistive Reading Device. It helps children focus on challenging words in their texts, and then models how to sound out those words. Children use the Word Window to isolate and enlarge a difficult word. Then, just like a teacher sitting next to her students, The Sounding Out Machine models how to chunk the word into syllables and use phonics skills to blend the phonemes together and sound out the word. Children can use their own digital word card to practice and become independent.
