Montrose - Daily Press

OLATHE - If all continues to go to plan, parents and teachers are going to encourage children to spend more time listening to their iPods than turning them off.

Last winter, Olathe Elementary first grade teachers Nikki Corn, Lou Jankowski, Sarah Webber and Dave Snyder implemented a new program to improve students’ reading and stay hip in the process. The teachers have spent the past year recording stories, vocabulary, songs, poems and phonics as Mp3 files and ripping them onto iPod shuffles. Selected students then bring the iPods home and listen to the iPod as they follow along with text.

What started off as a trial run has become the latest sensation at Olathe Elementary, as Corn said all of the teachers have seen vast improvement in the students selected to use the iPods.

From left, Olathe Elementary first-graders Brooke Baecker, Mario Suarez, Dustin Young and Kolby Gray follow along with an activity while listening to an iPod containing audio. (Matt Lindberg/Daily Press) Advertisement

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