Pew Resesearch Center survey of almost 2,500 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project Teachers re: impact of digital technologies on middle school and high school student.
Taylor, a young girl who struggles with reading, engaged in repeated reading until she could read this text aloud fluently. Her tutor helped her record it and upload it to Youtube. Strong motivation for the research-supported but often boring repeated reading of text.
Anne Cunningham's excellent and readable review of the impact of independent reading by children and reading aloud with children on vocabulary growth. Benefits accrue regardless of reading or cognitive ability when children are provided materials they can read with understanding.