Here we go. Another good article addressing something I have never thought about, but should have always known and implemented. Captioned Media.
The article makes very reasonable, and research based, claims that ESL students and learning disabled students can benefit from watching shows with captions. The article says that captions can help students with:
- reading speed,
- word knowledge,
- decoding,
- vocabulary acquisition,
- word recognition,
- reading comprehension, and
- oral reading rates.
It is a very simple way of differentiating instruction in our classrooms. It would be a good idea to let all the teachers in our schools know that this is something simple they could do to increase literacy. It's a great excuse to send out a mass email to your co-workers. In fact, I plan on doing just that.
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