Thursday, April 05, 2007

Auditory Skills Practice!

I have just discovered that our library subscribes to TumbleBooks, a virtual online library of books and games for young readers! While it's $29.95/year for a family to subscribe to this service, if you Google "TumbleBooks" you will find links to many libraries that have already subscribed to the service, offering it to you through them. Here are two places to find TumbleBooks:

North Greenville Public Library (also has links to kids' eBooks, cool sites and more online games)

Contra Costa County Library (again, a bunch of OTHER cool links as well)

FUN!

When going through the Story Books, I've found them well illustrated, and the words highlighted as they are spoken. I'm sure my 6 year old "hearing" child will love these books, but I'm also hoping the highlighted spoken words will help my 8 year old son w/CI improve his auditory skills and literacy by following along with the stories. ;)

OOOOH! Just found another good resource:

Starfall, "Where children have fun learning to read!" Good phonics/auditory skills practice, too.

Enjoy!