| It is always a challenge to get children to sit down | | | | materials for your children |
| quietly and read a book, especially kids who are just | | | | 4. Children with reading difficulties can listen and follow |
| beginning to read or those who have difficulty in | | | | the books simultaneously. This could promote their |
| reading, audio books is a good way to integrate fun | | | | interest in reading and allow them to learn as they |
| and interaction in learning. | | | | listen. Most importantly, popular stories that children |
| Parents can now have an easier time in teaching their | | | | love, will be very interesting for them to listen to. |
| kids with audio books. | | | | 5. Audio books save money for the parents and |
| Educational experts have agreed that books with | | | | storage space for the school as teachers don't have |
| narration are easier for kids to absorb and remember. | | | | to buy and store up tons of books for a classroom, |
| Kids enjoy story telling and could remember stories if | | | | just one audio book can be played for all the students |
| they heard it from someone. | | | | in the classroom. |
| Many schools have now taken audio books not just to | | | | 6. Children don't particularly like printed books as much |
| the homes of their students but also in the classrooms. | | | | as they do audio books. It feels much more |
| Here is how audio books can help engage children in | | | | comfortable for them to "listen" to an audio book than |
| their learning | | | | "read" a book. |
| 1. Parents can have an ease of mind when they send | | | | 7. Audio books can also help children deal with the |
| their kids to school. Kids will no longer be crying their | | | | pronunciation of certain words that they would have |
| way to school. With audio books, children will enjoy | | | | difficulty with when merely reading them. By hearing |
| going to school as audio books provide interesting | | | | the pronunciation and seeing it printed, they are able to |
| books that arouse children's interest and attention. | | | | remember and pronounce it better. |
| Children tend to be more attentive if there is a third | | | | No wonder, audio books is getting more popular |
| party talking and speaking to them. With narration and | | | | among parents and teachers. They can easily assess |
| sound effects, it is sure to get children to remember | | | | children books at the popular audio bookstore like |
| information better. | | | | Merlion Audio Bookstore for a wide collection the all |
| 2. Audio books can make learning more entertaining | | | | time classic stories such as Alice in Wonderland,Hans |
| than conventional teaching. Your children will be excited | | | | Christian Henderson's Fairy Tales, a wide collections of |
| and keen to learn more from exciting audio books. | | | | Chronicles of Narnia and a series of fairy tales such as |
| 3. Using audio books to teach kids in school allows | | | | the Three Little Pigs, Tom Thumb, Goldilocks, The |
| teachers to have more time in planning more | | | | Emporer's New Clothes, Hansel & Gretel and many |
| well-thought and interesting programs and teaching | | | | more. |