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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please do NOT fall into the trap of using YouTube videos to read stories to your students. Read real books to them, stop and ask questions, ask them to make predictions. It’s easy to put on a 5 minute video and think it’s the same experience for them, but it’s not.
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I am a special ed teacher, not OP.  If I am putting on a video of a story, there is one of two reasons. One is that there is something going on like a kid melting down, or urgently problem solving something for a child, where I can’t sit down and read to them.  In this case I am not under the impression that it’s the “same” as me reading the story.  Because those aren’t the choices.

The other if is if it’s something that really isn’t available to me in another way.  Maybe they’ve started a new unit in their general education class that involves African animals and it’s clear the kid doesn’t know an elephant from a giraffe.  So I put on a 3 minute video and we spend 10 minutes stopping and starting it and making connections, asking questions, etc . . . With the video.  [/quote]

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