Help, my kid doesn’t like to read!

Large numbers of school-age children, including children from all social classes, face significant difficulties in learning to read.

Audio books have now made it possible for children to get better access to materials that they don’t like reading.

Of course they must still read, but reading any material and still hearing it makes the reading much more interesting.

Many schools have now taken audio books not just to the homes of their students but also in the classrooms.

It is surprisingly to discover that the experts agree - audio books in fact help improve a child’s reading!

Below are 5 specific benefits of using audio books for kids:

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. 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.

3. There are certain audio book rental services on the Internet, such as Jiggerbug.com that allows teachers to rent as many audio books as possible at very low cost. This is much more cost effective than having to buy even a single audio book.

4. 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.

5. 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.

All in all, most children find it a great deal of fun listening to a lesson on audio, rather than having to read it. That is why children spend a lot of time watching movies, rather than reading.

NoPaperback.com is the blog of Audado.com. Download the Juvenile Catalog. Audado offers over 5,000 downloadable audio books from major publishers such as BBC, Harper-Collins, Simon and Schuster, and Time Warner. Books are organized by categories like biography, fiction, history, humor, religion, and self help.

- Ruben Alvarez

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