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iPod in the Second Grade ELL Classrooms in Palatine IL Put the iPods in two of four schools not meeting AYP in two second grade classrooms in each school. In each of the two schools with iPods 18 our of 40 students exited the ELL program and 25 our of about 50 exited at the other school. This is compared with classes without the iPods in which no schools exited the ELL program. Content for the iPod:
 * Create a Keynote with a photo and vocabulary word on each slide. Export slides as jpegs to iPhoto. Then sych up iPhoto to the iPods. Also export as video with manual advance so students can control it.
 * Flash cards with a picture and/or text on the front and a spoken word in the back.
 * Listening to audio books (Teachers, parents, or students can record books already available in the school library.)
 * ELL students struggling with vocabulary can have flash cards to see an image, hear a word used in a sentence, and read the word in text—and do it as many times as they need to understand it.

Students have a spiral notebook as a journal to record what they have done every time they use the iPod Touch or iPad