Presented by Daniel Toriola
Audio books are recordings of the contents of a book provided either on tape, CD or in digital format. Audio
books or talking books, as they are generally called, are audio recordings of books. Audio books are a great
way to use ‘empty’ time.
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Audio Books For Kids
By Kit Heathcock
Audio books are becoming more and more popular as people with no time to sit down and read a
book take advantage of iPods and MP3 players to listen to the latest bestseller as they rush through
their daily lives. Where is the place of audio books for kids though, at a time when we are struggling to
promote literacy for all and encourage kids to read?
Audio books can work very well alongside printed books for kids that have grasped the basics of
reading but need to develop vocabulary. They can sit down with the printed book and follow the text as
they listen to it being read on a CD or MP3 download.
Not only does the reading aloud bring the story to life, at a time when slowness of reading skills can
frustrate children when they are trying to make out a plot line, but it means that they can cope with
more complicated vocabulary than they might otherwise be able to.
Hearing a book read aloud as an audio book teaches them the correct pronunciation of words that
might otherwise be hard to work out from the complexities of English spelling.
By listening to the same story over and over as children love to do, they can memorize it and will
suddenly find that they can actually 'read' the printed book with the help of their memory. This soon
translates to real reading as word recognition increases.
Of course if parents have time to read aloud to their children this is invaluable in developing a love of
reading, but today when we are hard-pr