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Hey team, it is hard to believe that our last blog post has already arrived. For my last post I wanted to share a wonderful idea I found on Amazon. Virtual Learning Dragon. In reality I wished I had found this and posted it earlier in the school year for my vast reading audience with young children adapting to virtual learning. Virtual Learning Dragon helps young children overcome fears and struggles with virtual learning and sudden change. It helps answer questions such as w hat if virtual learning is too hard for me?  What if I get bored easily and cannot stay engaged?  What if I don’t want to do my virtual classwork?  What if I am easily distracted? And, w hat if I don’t want to follow any of the new virtual class rules?  The best part is this book is free for Kindle Unlimited and Audible customers and is a great way to start introducing your young learning to all the benefits of eReaders. Of course, you can also find this read by various people on YouTube. Of not...

On the second to last post for my eReader blog I have decided to focus on how eReaders may assist teachers, both in and outside the classroom. The primary focus here will be supporting English as a second language (ESL) readers. A topic of some interest here in El Paso where we have a large Spanish speaking and bilingual population. I have written many times about access to education and as we all know, our schools resources are primarily produced in English and resources for other languages may be limited. To me that is limiting access to education. An eReader can help. First, eReaders have many books for young readers that are published from other languages that allows young readers to engage with literature in a cost effective and simple way. Moreover, some eReaders have settings that operate the eReader in other languages, albeit that does not mean translating eBooks from one language to another, although there are some eReader apps that profess to do this on a word by word basis....