Friday, October 25, 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.

Children can learn about history, how animals survive, about the weather, what a meteorologist does, science, planting flowers and growing, and a variety of other important topics from nonfiction books. From fiction books they learn important life lessons through characters movement throughout the story, as well as important ethical lessons, ways of interacting with others, and proper ways of behaving.

They also learn vital skills needed, such as identifying words, objects, characters, names, and others in the audio, and book. They also learn to recognize word structure in syllables, learn the right way of saying words, and build vocabulary. Not only that, but they are also learning important things about the culture, history, and ways of doing things.

Not only that, but children learn to understand the environment and the world in which they live by learning about animals, history, and society. Through teacher plans involving read-along activities children learn not only speaking, reading, and recognition, but also critical thinking, and cognitive skills. Children can also benefit from teachers hand selecting books to be read at home between parent and child. This further advances the child's reading skills, speaking and word and object recognition skills.

Reading at home also connects sounds to printed words for children. It can also help build vocabulary, confront feelings of fear, such as being scared of the dark, of monsters in the closet, and will help parents and their children connect in a personal way. Children will be more equipped for classroom learning, and trained for school activities.

School guides are also helpful to parents investigating ways of helping children increase reading and word recognition skills at home. This helps parents understand what they are learning at each level, and materials needed to assist their children at home. In first grade students are learning mostly reading and understanding what they read, as well as some thing about sentences. They are learning to spell words, vowels, and how to break down words for easy 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.

This assures parents will purchase the right books for home study and practice. Audio can also often be found on the Internet and downloaded. Audio is a great way to teach children, both at home and at school, as it allows for pausing listen and read along books and asking children to identify objects, animals, characters, words, and other things.




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