News 12 First at Five / Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 AUGUSTA, Ga.
(WRDW) -- Georgia Regents University is putting good use to a
$60,000 grant. They're making a video game for kids just
starting school -- helping them learn to read. They say a
similar DVD has already been successful. Now they're trying to
continue the success by making a video game. Reading is
fundamental and not reading is detrimental, especially to kids
who have just started school. "It's not, 'Here is the ball.'
It's language involvement that expands their knowledge base,"
said GRU Professor Paulette. Thanks to a federal grant, Georgia
Regents University was able to make 20,000 DVDs aimed at
improving kids' reading skills. "The results were a 20-point
gain on the average for the Peabody vocabulary test. It tests
their receptive vocabulary," Harris said. "This goes into the
homes of kids who don't have many books in the home. It may be
single-parent homes where the parent has very little time to
read," said Professor Walter Evans. Now they're usi