{"id":27610,"date":"2013-05-02T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/?p=27610"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:18:27","slug":"e-books-can-be-delightful-for-young-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/e-books-can-be-delightful-for-young-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Books can be delightful for young readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

e-Books can be delightful for young readers!<\/p>\n

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Kids Delighted while reading eBooks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ebooks bring delight to early readers<\/strong><\/p>\n

When students read ebooks on tablets, they can interact as they learn. Even with the most simple ebooks\u2014static paper books transferred to digital\u2014students can add highlights and make notes in the text. That kind of participation, at the moment of reading, is simply not allowed in school-owned textbooks or readers.<\/p>\n

When students can change the font size, a whole new joy comes to reading for many children. New readers, in Kindergarten and first grade, need larger type. More advanced readers in those same classrooms, though, might be comfortable with more words per page. Students now can find the right font size themselves, and continue to adjust it as their reading improves.<\/p>\n

Ebooks reduce the intimidation factor\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

For many children, there\u2019s something intimidating about the look and feel of a heavy, dense book. My friend Sebastian, now in his 30\u2019s, remembers avoiding \u201cbig books with small print\u201d as a child. He never picked up books he probably would have enjoyed just because their size made them seem too difficult to get through. \u201cNow all books are the same thickness, the thickness of a tablet,\u201d Sebastian said, \u201cIf every page was just a screen I would have read so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thick books may be daunting, but tablets\u00a0are captivating. Put a tablet in front of a child, and her eyes light up. As ebooks become more interactive, involving videos, demonstrations, three-dimensional models, and quizzes, students can participate and guide their own learning even more.<\/p>\n

A special tool for special needs\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special needs educators have already found tablets to be valuable tools. The Morrison Center in Maine, an educational facility for people with disabilities, uses tablets to help children gain a range of skills. In an article in\u00a0The Forecaster, a Portland-area journal,\u00a0David Harry\u00a0wrote about the ways tablets allow special needs children to work on stepping-stone activities that build into larger skills.<\/p>\n

For those who have issues with speech, tablets provide a vehicle for communication.Touch screens provide faster, more direct input than keyboards. \u201cI see the impact it has made. It opens a whole new world for them.\u201d said Lynn Gierie, whose nonprofit, The Robbie Foundation, helped provide funding for 24 iPads at Morrison. Her son, Robbie, is also a student.<\/p>\n

The appeal of tablets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as important as useful skill-building tools, tablets at Morrison are just plain fun. They\u2019re \u201cdynamic\u201d and \u201cexciting\u201d for kids. Children want to use them. Tablets reach students in ways other tools cannot. \u00a0Their bright screens and direct interactivity are\u00a0irresistible.<\/p>\n

This article is taken from dbw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

e-Books can be delightful for young readers! Ebooks bring delight to early readers When students read ebooks on tablets, they can interact as they learn. Even with the most simple ebooks\u2014static paper books transferred to digital\u2014students can add highlights and make notes in the text. That kind of participation, at the moment of reading, is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[4776],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115875,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27610\/revisions\/115875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kopykitab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}