[Web4lib] Audiobooks, are they helping kids learn to read?

[Linda_M.Schwartz at lvh.com]

Strictly as a parent -- we used audiobooks when traveling for entertainment
and enlightment.  We explored books that I could have never gotten my kids to
read and generated an interest on the part of one son in both listening to
audiobooks and reading favorite authors (like one of our favorites, Gary
Paulsen.) Getting boys to read, I have found as a parent and in my public
librarian persona is VERY difficult.. The books experienced as a family
figured in conversations, philosophizing and, in one case, became a family
byword ("FLUNG!" from Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods -- listened to in its
entirety on a memorable day. Like any teaching modality, depends on how you
use them.  Would I prefer my sons to listen to books on their MP3 players or
to some of the lyrics out there today-- books win hands down..


Linda Matula Schwartz, MDE
Library Information Specialist
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network


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