Audiobooks are great! The audiobook, Learning to Read: Favorite Fairy Tales, will be available soon!
Audiobooks have been used with second-language learners, learning-disabled students, and struggling readers or non readers. Most audiobooks have proven successful in helping these students to access literature and enjoy books. Many are finding out though they are also useful with average, avid, or gifted readers.
Audiobooks certainly help the listener understand the content of the story, the plot, and the theme. No one would argue the importance of decoding in teaching children to read. With audiobooks, you can follow along with the print book too. Understanding the message, thinking critically about the content, using imagination, and making connections is at the heart of what it means to be a reader and why kids learn to love books.
Don’t be bored! Have fun with reading! How? Listen to audiobooks to step it up a notch! Audiobooks are entertaining, engaging and just plain awesome!