Audiobooks

     Are you considering using audiobooks with your children, but feel they are not as beneficial as your child reading the book? Well audiobooks are in fact beneficial for children! Audiobooks introduce students to books above their reading levels, model good interpretive reading, teach critical listening, highlight humor in books, introduce new genres that students might not otherwise consider, introduce new vocabulary or difficult proper names or locales, sidestep unfamiliar dialects or accents, provide a read-aloud model, provide a bridge to important topics of discussion, and recapture the essence and the delights of hearing stories beautifully told by extraordinarily talented storytellers.
    It is important that you do your homework before buying audiobooks. Some narrator's voices can be irritating or the audiobook can be paced too faced or too slow. It is important to choose an audiobook paced appropriately for your child.
   If you are considering using audiobooks in the classroom, single author unabridged audiobooks are the best to use. Audiobooks have traditionally been used in the classroom by teachers of second-language learners, learning-disables or impaired students, and struggling students to access literature and enjoy books.