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In 2007 we started using iPods for our listening center. You
can read all about it on the
iPod page.
Pictured above on the
left you can see one of our individual cassette players. I
used to have a traditional listening center with a tape recorder and
a junction box with several sets of headphones, but I found that it
was both difficult and expensive to find multiple copies of books I
wanted to use in the listening center. Also, the children
could never agree on what they wanted to listen to so they were
either fighting over the book and ripping it, or there was only one
child there all alone. After weighing my options carefully I
decided to make the switch to individual cassette players, it turned
out to be the best move I ever made! I found the cassette
players at Wal Mart for only $5, although I don't know if they are
available any more.
The cassette players are
housed in a tub near the pocket chart, pictured above on the right.
This pocket chart is a great organizational tool. I put a book and cassette in each pocket of the chart and
when a student wants to listen to a story they get a cassette player
out of the tub, and then get the book and cassette out of the pocket
chart.
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