Manhattan ? Kansas State University researchers are finding success using webcams to improve the reading fluency of elementary school students.

The school says in a news release that a professor and two graduate students were trying to reduce the errors students make when reading aloud. Improving fluency usually leads to improved comprehension.

For 16 weeks, 27 second- through fourth-graders at an elementary school in the Shawnee Mission district read in front of the webcams. They then watched the video to pick out their mistakes.

Students in all three grade levels reduced their reading errors.

Researchers found that even students who disliked reading would read with the cameras.

The researchers are preparing to publish their research and recently presented their project at an education conference.