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By Carrie Lauth
Quick pop quiz! How can you accomplish the following things
with the push of a button:
Help your kids improve their reading skills?
Grow their vocabulary?
Help them sit quietly (willingly!)? and
Entertain them too?
Easy- Play audiobooks!
That's right Mom and Dad, listening to books on tape provide
all these benefits and more.
Did you know that for a significant part of their childhood,
your kids' intelluctual capacity will be greater than their
reading ability? That means that they can understand material
when it is read aloud to them that they would not be able to
read. Interesting isn't it?
My kids love audiobooks and I love that they love them. As a
homeschooling Mom of 4 kids, I do a lot of reading aloud.
Audiobooks give my voice a little break.
You can play books on tape when you're in the car running
errands. Naptime and bedtime are also favorite times to listen
to a story. (And if your kids are like mine, you wear out long
before they do so books on tape are a lifesaver for helping
them nod off after you've done the bedtime story!)
Listening to audio books strengthens your child's ability to
listen, a skill very crucial for their academic achievement.
Audio books also let your child hear fluent reading with a bit
of flair... a lot of them are read by the author or
professional actors.
If your child is struggling with reading, audio books
associate
reading with pleasure...so important if your child is to
develop
a lifelong love of reading!
Audio books help your child learn to visualize a story by
using
their imagination instead of the pictures (in contrast,
watching
television trains the brain to be lazy and rely on
images).
Why not get your child on the fast track to reading success
with the push of the play button too? To get you started, here
are some of my kids' favorite titles:
Charlotte's Web (read by the Author, E.B. White)
The Jamie Lee Curtis collection (And I dare you to get through
"Tell me about the night I was born" without crying!)
A New Coat for Anna
The Maurice Sendak collection
The B.F.G. by Roald Dahl
Have fun listening together!
About The Author: www.InsteadofTV.com helps you think
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