[Vision2020] Need some advice

Dave tiedye at turbonet.com
Wed Oct 28 00:40:09 PDT 2009


Take her to the library, get her a BOOK!

Dave


Sue Hovey wrote:
> Hello there folks,
>  
> I've been thinking about getting our daughter, Leslie, a Kindle so she 
> will have opportunities to read books in which she's interested.  
> Here's the problem:  Her interest level is "LIttle House, etc." but 
> her reading level is "middle first grade" or lower.  What I want to 
> get her is something that will let her read independently, but if she 
> doesn't know one single word she can point to it (or whatever) and it 
> will audibly give her the word.  The program, Leapfrog, does that and 
> she uses it, but the books are kindergarten, primary.  I want 
> something more at her interest level.  To those of you who use Kindle, 
> will it do that?   I know the new models have audio, but I don't know 
> if they will isolate one single word, and when I read the description 
> of the instrument, that isn't clear to me. 
>  
> Thanks for your advice.
>  
> Sue Hovey
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