Basehor Elementary School first-grader Piper Rusk tries out a Nook Color tablet device during class Tuesday, as other students look on.

Cynthia Fletcher's first-grade class at Basehor Elementary reacts with enthusiasm after Fletcher shows them a Nook Color tablet device. Fletcher borrowed the tablet from kindergarten teacher Amy Scruggs to show the students what they had to look forward to after the Basehor-Linwood Education Foundation awarded a $600 grant for two of the tablets.

Amy Scruggs and Cynthia Fletcher, Basehor Elementary School: Classroom Library for 21st Century Students, $613.86 each

Basehor Elementary School principal Teri Boyd (left) and Basehor-Linwood Superintendent David Howard award a grant check to first-grade teacher Cynthia Fletcher from the Basehor-Linwood Education Foundation on Monday.

Basehor-Linwood Superintendent David Howard and Basehor Elementary School Principal Teri Boyd present a grant check to kindergarten teacher Amy Scruggs from the Basehor-Linwood Education Foundation on Monday.

The books give the students the option of reading on their own or listening as the device reads to them, which Fletcher said should allow the students to make their way through trickier, higher-level books than they could read on paper.

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