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I listened to three podcasts that were created by elementary school children and 6th graders, but I have to say that a group of first graders out did all of the other grades. The first graders’ podcast was on Radio Willow Web #28. Besides the fact that everything they said sounded incredibly cute, it also seemed that they put a lot of effort into what they were going to talk about. The children seemed to have done a lot of research to prepare for their podcast on fish. A few of the first graders were even better at public speaking than the sixth graders I listened to. They even had some better jokes. Although, I am not sure if they wrote the jokes or the teacher did. I think allowing the first graders to prepare and write their own podcast probably gave them a lot of practice in research, writing, reading, and public speaking. And I’m sure they had a lot of fun with it too.