It can often be a bit of a challenge to get children to sit down quietly and read a book without becoming distracted. This can be even more of a problem for those who are perhaps just beginning to read or those who have difficulty reading. For this reason online audio books for kids can be a great way to integrate fun and interaction into learning. There are a wide range of popular online audio stories and talking e-books available so finding something that your child will enjoy is even easier. If you do still struggle to find audio stories that your child will enjoy then why not try writing, recording or purchasing your own personalised stories to make reading even more exciting.
Audio Books Make Information Easier To Take In
Educational experts have agreed that online audio books and e-talking books for children make it much easier for them to absorb and remember the stories that they hear. This is great for all young people as they often really enjoy story telling and by listening to audio stories it enables them to recall these so they can tell their friends and family.
Below is a list to show you just why online audio books for kids can help to engage and promote learning:
1. Children tend to be more attentive if there is a third party speaking to them. With narration and sound effects audio stories are sure to capture your child’s imagination and enhance their ability to remember information. This is especially true for funny audio stories as kids often do not even realise they are learning.
2. Audio stories help to make learning that bit more entertaining than conventional teaching. Online audio books for children help to hold their interest and they will be excited and keen to learn more from stimulating and funny audio stories.
3. Free children’s audio books can help those who may have reading difficulties as they allow the child to listen as well as follow audio stories simultaneously. This could promote their interest in reading and allows them to learn as they listen. Perhaps most significantly is that popular stories that kids love will be interesting for them to listen to and will hopefully encourage them to read books later on. Finding online audio books for children is easy and there is a wealth of recommended audio books at.
4. Audio stories also help to save money for parents as well as greatly cutting down on the amount of storage space required to keep them. This means that teachers for example do not have to purchase and store vast numbers of books in the classroom as online audio books for kids can be played for all the students to listen to.
5. There are some young people who simply do not like printed books as much as they do online audio books for children and they feel much more at ease "listening" to an audio book than "reading" a book. With such a large range of audio stories available they do not need to miss out and can still continue to learn and enjoy by following the story along.
6. Online audio books for children have the added advantage of being able to help children with the pronunciation of certain words that they may struggle with when reading. By using audio stories and hearing the pronunciation as well as seeing it printed they are able to remember the word and their ability to pronounce it in the future will be increased.
Popular online audio books for children include: Alice in Wonderland, Hans Christian Henderson's Fairy Tales, The Chronicles of Narnia, Three Little Pigs, Tom Thumb, Goldilocks, The Emperor's New Clothes, Hansel & Gretel and Wind in the Willows, Harry Potter - such as Harry Potter Dealth Hallows Audio Book and other Harry Potter audio books your child can listen to online Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows CD Set tells the story of Harry's final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Not to forget the other funny audio stories which will excite and entertain young minds.
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7: Talking e-books for kids have always been a favourite of main, particularly as there are so many to chose from online. A talking e-book for kids allows them to look at the picture whilst at the same time listen to the book being read. These talking e books are brought to life by sound effects, as well as distinctive voices for each character, subtitles and computer graphics. As you can imagine they are valuable tool for a child who is having difficulty reading. There are many sites that you can where you can get them free.
8: Audio Stories For Kids has over 300 audio stories in Mps format for your to download.
9: Storynory ( listen to the podcast here - type in storynory) is an online treasure trove of free audio stories for kids. You will find a mixture of new audio stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories.
They have published an audio story every week since November 2005. Storynory has grown and grown in popularity, and now around a quarter of a million mp3 files are downloaded every month from their servers.
9: LibriVox ( listen to the podcast here - type in Librivox) should be on every audiobook enthusiast’s Favorites, and if you’re not an enthusiast, one visit to this website and you’ll be hooked. You don’t even need a library card to access the classic literature on LibriVox. All of the audiobooks on this site are books in the public domain read by volunteers and are completely free. Kids can listen to Wind In The Willow and Black Beauty and many others classic books.
1 comments:
Happy New Year. Great book, think I'll now get it on audio.
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