Young Readers: Day 5, Share a Story, Shape a Future

Friday, March 13, 2009

Day 5: Technology and Reading - What the Future Holds
is hosted by Elizabeth O. Dulemba at Dulemba.com

Audiobooks with Bruce Coville of Full Cast Audio and Mary Burkey of Audiobooker
E-books with Harold Underdown of The Purple Crayon and Sheila Ruth of Wands and Worlds
Podcasts with Andrea Ross of Just One More Book! and Cheryl Rainfield of cherylrainfield.com
A resource of links to audiobooks, e-books, podcasts and webcasts @ Dulemba.com.

Conditions the child to associate reading with pleasure, an association that is necessary in order to maintain reading as a lifelong activity
Contributes to background knowledge for all other subject areas, including science, history, geography, math, and social studies
Provides the child with a reading role model
Creates empathy toward other people, because literature values humanity and celebrates the human spirit and potential, offering insight into different lifestyles while recognizing universality
Increases a child's vocabulary and grammar, and has the potential to improve writing skills
Improves a child's probability of staying in school
Improves future probability of employment and higher quality of life
Increase life span by virtue of correlated education, employment, and higher quality of life
Lowers probability of imprisonment
Improves problem-solving and critical-thinking skills that are fundamental and transferable to all other areas of learning
Offers information
Offers laughter and entertainment and an alternative to television
Improves attention span
Stimulates the imagination
Nurtures emotional development and improves self esteem
Reading skills are accrued skills that are bound to improve over time..a countdown to academic success