Previewing a book with multilinguistic learners before reading is important as it helps activate prior knowledge, build context, and support comprehension. Within Digital Reader, many books are accompanied by a comprehensive video book introduction. These introductions offer crucial scaffolding by explicitly modeling and teaching vocabulary and enhancing comprehension of English language structures.
Book introduction videos can be accessed from the book menu. By playing the video along side the book, students can follow along in the book as the book introduction is playing to help set them up for reading success through building context, comprehension, and knowledge.
The platform's innovative Reading Adventures feature fully integrates the book introduction into the steps to set students up for reading success as they work independently on reading.