There is no denying the fact that most people hate reading as children. Only a few children enjoy reading, especially if there is an alternative.
Audiobooks have now made it possible for children to have better access to materials that they don’t like to read.
Of course, they still have to read, but reading any material and continuing to listen to it makes reading that much more interesting.
Many schools have now brought audiobooks not only into their students’ homes but into classrooms as well.
Experts in the education sector have agreed that audiobooks in the classroom greatly help students more than regular books, especially those students who are just beginning to read or those who have difficulty reading.
Below are 10 specific benefits of using audiobooks for students:
1. Using audiobooks to teach children in school gives them “variety”. Instead of just listening to their teacher, they benefit from the change that comes with “another” teacher.
2. There are specific audiobooks prepared with children in mind that are not only educational but highly entertaining. These kinds of audiobooks make learning so much more fun than regular teaching.
3. Using audiobooks to teach children at school will give teachers more time to prepare for the next lesson. Teachers can play the audiobook for the children while doing something else.
4. For children with reading difficulties, they can slowly follow the audiobook readings until they feel comfortable to read.
Simply following an audiobook to read while looking at the printed material in front of them can increase their learning abilities by a very high percentage.
5. Audiobooks save money. Instead of buying dozens of books for a classroom, just one audiobook can be played for all the students in the classroom.
There are certain audiobook rental services on the Internet, such as Jiggerbug.com, that allow teachers to rent as many audiobooks as possible at a very low cost. This is much more cost effective than having to buy even a single audiobook.
6. Audiobooks that tell interesting stories are very helpful when children are too tired to read and study.
Most importantly, popular stories that children love will be very interesting for them to listen to.
7. Kids don’t like print books as much as they like audiobooks. They find it much more comfortable to “listen” to an audiobook than to “read” a book.
8. Audiobooks also make children deal with the pronunciation of certain words that they would struggle with when simply reading them. By hearing the pronunciation and seeing it in print, they would understand it better.
In general, most children find it very fun to listen to an audio lesson, instead of having to read it. That is why children spend a lot of time watching movies, instead of reading.
It’s no wonder more schools are embracing audiobook technology to teach their children. And with the services freely available on the Internet now, it is now more profitable than ever.
