Electronic Books and Struggling Readers.

Electronic books or e-books have the potential to "capture student responses to engaging children's literature." These e-books can encourage students to create their own versions of text through using their own language. This also allows students to engage in retelling and therefore can serve to promote comprehension and can be used in and out of the classroom.

Teachers can integrate the use of e-books in the classrooms in order to scaffold students learning as they can be used at varying degrees of difficulty to support student learning. E-books can also serve to promote vocabulary development, text comprehension and reading fluency. Teachers can produce e-books in collaboration with students which would promote ownership and encourage greater participation.

The use of multimodal texts may stimulate student involvement as sound, animation and images could facilitate active participation. Teachers with students can adapt literature stories used in class to allow students to create their very own e-books and generate retelling. Rhodes and Milby (2007) also posit that e-books can be used to support vocabulary acquisition, enhance text comprehension and model reading fluency.