Kindle Immersion Reading

[Anonymous]

Audible advertises this great feature, “immersion reading,” where a kid can listen to the audible version of a book while reading along on the Kindle app. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make this work. Has anyone ever done this successfully? I have been fighting with apps all day. I just need to know it’s possible.

[Anonymous]

I believe you have to pay for both the kindle book and the audible version separately for it to work, and your audible account and your kindle account and your amazon account all need to be linked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe you have to pay for both the kindle book and the audible version separately for it to work, and your audible account and your kindle account and your amazon account all need to be linked.

Check whether you have to pay separately for Kindle and Audible. IME, one used to be able to buy a Kindle book and then add on a modest fee (like $3) to have the Audible version as well.

It gets very expensive to keep buying Kindle/Audible.

If your child has a reading related disability, ask your school to qualify him for Bookshare, which is a program run by US DoEd special ed programs to give access to reading materials to those with qualifying disabilities.

You can also qualify for Learning Ally, another program for kids with print disabilities, but you have to pay about $130 and year. My DS is in HS and still uses it. It costs more, but has more options in terms of natural reader voices. Although, TBH, it has been a number of years since I looked at both Bookshare and Learning Ally and compared.

Both organizations give you access to a huge range of books - practically everything in print, especially Bookshare.

I had to ask my IEP team specifically about this (morons), and had to escalate to the HIAS team within MCPS, who is spectacular and qualified DS without any problems.

[Anonymous]

Your school team may not have initiated this because districts have other programs that fulfill the same need. If you want assistance with an outside program that is on you to initiate and they were nice to assist. Calling them morons seems unnecessarily mean. I think they were nice to be helpful in aiding your acquisition of a program for home...which is not their responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Immersion reading can be helpful for some kids but it is too expensive on kindle for most people. You buy the kindle book with the audiobook as a package in the Amazon website. It’s best to buy a book your kid is really interested in. Search on Amazon kindle store for and tap “ebooks with audible narration” under Audible Narration on the left hand side of the screen. There is only a small subset of books that have this capacity.

It works best on a kindle fire or IPad tablet with both audible and kindle apps downloaded.

You can find some Kindle instructions online about how to do it. But learning ally has been bettter for us, a much better selection although the audio voices aren’t always as good.