Hip-hop used to improve reading among students with special needs
Created by a hip-hop artist to help struggling readers, H.E.L.P. -- Hip-Hop Educational Literacy Program -- features workbooks for relating hip-hop lyrics to school curriculum to improve student reading. Gabriel Benn, the artist who created the books, said data show that when teachers used the program with students who have special needs, students met their individual goals in skills such as editing, grammar and critical thinking 90% of the time.
Gazette (Gaithersburg, Md.), The
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This story published in CEC SmartBrief on 11/16/2009
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