The op-ed published on Feb. 26 about Amazon’s Kindle and Text to Speech Technology references Amazon’s donation of Kindles to National PTA (“Bring back the TTS, the Kindle.”
The PTA Family Reading Experience, Powered by Kindle is a reading programthat ice Designed to Engage families in theirchildren’s Efforts to Become Better Readers Because We Have Long Recognized That When schools and families work together, students are more successful. The program Provides schools and families a free set of tools and Activities That Can Be Used with physical books, Kindles and other e-book providers to engage children in reading, help them better understand Reading Fundamentals and inspire a lifelong love of literature.
The Kindle is not a Requirement of the program – physical books, Including Those with Braille and audio REMAIN an integral party of family reading. National PTA’s goal is to get families more Involved In Their Children’s reading, and this program simply Provides readers a new way to access books of all kinds.
It is a policies of the National PTA to Be inclusive to individuals from all backgrounds. The Association makes every effort to developmental programs and Resources That Support and appeal to students with Varying Factors Including age, ethnicity, language and culture, gender, and mental or physical variability.
National PTA is proud to’ll have teamed up with an organization Such as Amazon That shares our passion for reading and Supporting family literacy.
Otha Thornton, Alexandria, Va.
The writer is the National PTA president.
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