(ABC Australia) Parents should be actively talking to their children as well as reading to them if they want to boost their literacy skills, a study from Macquarie University has found. Researchers from the Centre of Excellence in Cognition and…
(Mind/Shift) Nina Kraus, a biologist at Northwestern University, has spent the better part of her professional career researching how sound affects the brain. What she’s found has important implications for how adults and children manage the sounds that envelop them.…
(WBUR) Books in your ears. The history of audiobooks from wax cylinders to the digital age. We’ll trace the untold story of the talking book. The digital age has done a number on the music, movie and publishing industries. But…
(USA Today) Call it easy listening. Audiobooks are finding a new audience, as listeners discover the ease and portability of downloading recorded versions of books onto their smartphones. Once known as books on tape (and before that, books on vinyl),…
In a digital age, with the increasing use of technology in the classroom and in school libraries—69 percent of school libraries provide students with digital content—audiobooks are gaining ground. In fact, they are the fastest-growing sector in the book-publishing industry,…
(The Washington Post) As a parent and an educator I want to instill a love of reading in children. I intentionally model positive reading habits and provide time and opportunities for my older children to read. However, I do not…
(Language Magazine) In their book, Early Childhood Literacy: The National Early Literacy Panel and Beyond, Timothy Shanahan and Christopher Lonigan explore the connection between early oral language development and later reading comprehension success. Through its research, the The National Early…
(The Washington Post) Ever since audiobooks began to gain in popularity more than a decade ago, this question has been raised: Are kids who listen to assigned books rather than reading them actually cheating? Is reading a book anywhere near…