Thursday, October 24, 2013

Home And Classroom Learning With Listen And Read Along Books

By Elena McDowell


Listen and read along books are not only treasures to parents and children, and provide many ways to parents and children to bond together while listening and reading classical and contemporary fiction, but they also provide creative methods of teaching and learning. Educators often include listening and reading from nonfiction and fiction selections into a variety of lesson plans. Not only do children learn important life lessons by listening to audio about life activities, such as visiting a doctor's office, learning about veterinarians, animals, restaurants, or police, but it also teaches children literacy and speaking skills.

Not only are they learning to read, but they are also learning important things about culture, science, and behavior from nonfiction materials. Fiction teaches important things by using characters and objects to teach about friendship, types of behavior, and ethics. Children then identify with characters and their behaviors, while learning literacy skills.

Children also develop skills related to recognition, pronunciation and learn to break up syllables. They learn, through words, to recognize objects, shapes, and holidays. They also learn about cultures and traditions, and the history of a place, holiday or event. Reading is also used to represent math, and objects, words, and colors.

Children are also learning to understand their world through study and exploration. They are learning how to think about their world, how to understand themselves and the world through a variety of subjects. Studies also involve activities in which children learn to recognize words, objects and characters through reading.

Teachers and parents assisting children with sounds and then pointing to the printed word also helps them to connect the physical sound with the word in print. This also helps with vocabulary and can even help children confront some childhood problems, like fears when the lights are turned out or closets are closed, if characters in the story are also dealing with such things.

For parents unsure what types of materials the school is using, most schools provide a guide for materials and skills being implemented. Many classrooms for first grade learners are centered around comprehension in reading, and also learning to recognize some things in sentences. They are also beginning the spelling process with words of one syllable. They may also be learning to understand vowels and how they change, and are being introduced to breaking syllables for easier pronunciation.

Second graders on the other hand are reading two syllable words. They can read and understand prefixes and suffixes, understand the structure of stories, and know the beginning, middle and end of a story. Because they have more advanced skills, knowing the correct reading level for reading with children at home is essential to assisting them with skills in the classroom.

Listen and read along books are excellent tools for learning, both in school and at home. Audio books can often be found free by surfing the Internet, and can be easily and conveniently downloaded. Teaching children with audio is a great way for children to learn as audio is stopped periodically for children to point out sounds, words, or objects. Teachers and parents can also ask children to break down works into syllables.




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