Booktrack has become a Google for Education partner and is now offering a free Booktrack Classroom version for teachers. With booktracks you are trying to engage students more with the text by adding sound effects, music and other forms of audio to the material they're reading. Research on the concept has found that adding a soundtrack to text being read can increase comprehension and encourage students to read for longer periods. Teachers register for their free account and add a class, student names, and student password options. With your account, teachers and students log in and access an online text library with public domain books and chapters, you can also upload your own stories. Once a story is loading, you can add an audio track, by choosing the text and then specifying music by emotion, genre and style or sound effects. When reading, the reader can adjust the volume, speed (or let the system figure it out by page turnings), the text size, spacing and back...
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