Help, my kid doesn’t like to read!
January 9, 2008 by Audado
It is a fact the many persons hated reading as children. Merely a few juveniles appreciate reading, especially if there is an option.
Audio books have now made it possible for children to get better access to materials that they don’t like reading. Now, audiobooks come in digital file formats like MP3 which allows one to listen to audiobooks through MP3 players that have facilites friendly towards audiobook files. With all these improvements, one can enjoy an audiobook, anywhere and anytime.
Of course they must still read, but audiobooks in fact help improve a child’s reading!
Many schools have developed effective strategies for integrating audiobooks successfully in their classrooms.
By listening to audiobooks children are presented with an opportunity to hear language thereby providing them with models for the correct use of grammar and also giving them the chance to hear the correct pronunciation of new or difficult words.
Below are 7 specific benefits of using audio books for students:
1. Using audio books to teach children in school gives them “variety”. Instead of just listening to their teacher, they benefit from the change that comes with “another” teacher.
2. There are specific audio books prepared with children in mind that are not only educative but very entertaining. These types of audio books make learning much more fun than normal teaching.
3. Using audio books to teach kids in school will give the teachers more time to prepare for the next lesson. The teachers can play the audio book for the children while doing something else.
4. For children with reading difficulties, they can slowly follow the readings from audio books until it feels comfortable to read.
Simply following an audio book to read along while looking at the printed material in front of them can increase their learning skills by a very high percentage.
5. Audio books save money. Instead of buying dozens of books for a classroom, just one audio book can be played for all the students in the classroom.
6. Audio books that tell interesting stories are very helpful in times when the children have become too tired to read and study.
Most importantly, popular stories that children love, will be very interesting for them to listen to
7. Audio books also have children deal with the pronunciation of certain words that they would have difficulty with when merely reading them. By hearing the pronunciation and seeing it printed, they would better grasp it.
No wonder more schools are embracing the technology of audio books for teaching their children. And with services available freely on the Internet now, it is now more cost effective than ever.
At the Audado website, you’ll find a long list of available audiobooks for children of all ages.
These include 98 pages of listings of books. In general, audado provide audio exerpts for all of the their audiobooks.
Visit the Audado Kid’s Section
[...] they benefit from the change that comes with “another” teacher. 2. Using audio books to teach kids in school will give the teachers more time to prepare for the next lesson. The teachers can play [...]
[...] they benefit from the change that comes with "another" teacher. 2. Using audio books to teach kids in school will give the teachers more time to prepare for the next lesson. The teachers can play [...]