Engage to achieve: using mobile technologies to enthuse reluctant readers

Abstract

A network of four Tasmanian primary schools worked together to explore the potential of mobile technologies to engage year 6 students in reading, expose them to multimodal texts, build their understanding of inference, and provide opportunities for online, collaborative communication.

Engagement in reading was facilitated through multimodal texts, personal and collaborative responses to these texts, and year 9 reading mentors.

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