I was curious as to just how my kids would respond to listening to chapter books on audio. We don't use audio much as they don't like to read along with the text and I was primarily aiming to teach them to read. In learning to read, without the words the audio isn't much use. Anyway now that they can all read, the girls very well and Jaykob well enough he can have a year off school
I figured it can't hurt to try. So I took off to the local library and WOW what a collection! My library has LOADS of audio books for kids. My library is one of 6 linked libraries and it had 3 rows of audio books! I had no idea they would be so popular!
Most were CD but a couple were still tape ( who still has a tape player?) they even had some available in MP3 download versions!
Anyway to test out we trapped an Enid Blyton famous 5 story, a silly short poems audio and a " best of" picture books from Margaret Wild. Also to make sure the experiment is a success I grabbed the Hairy Mcleary collection. I know my kids will love that one. I am hoping that they get hooked on this and I can use audio recordings to enhance their listening skills, memory retention and extend their vocabulary and sentence
structure memory bank. The theory being the more quality sentences they hear the more quality sentences they can reproduce ( written and verbally)
I will be hunting for older style, high level vocabulary books read to good quality audio if anyone want to recommend any that would be great!
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