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Originally Posted by queentess
I don't know about that. My 6 month old can turn the pages on my ereader, but she's still figuring out how to turn a paper page without ripping it right out of the book  Very very colorful and durable board books are where it's at! |
Those durable board books
are made of paper...
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I think we, as adults who grew up with pbooks, are making too big a deal out of the "this device is a book!" idea. The child doesn't need to be 'taught' that the device can be used for reading. It's just a book to them. There is no reason to teach them that books are books and then think that they also need to be taught that this other device here is also a book -- there's no need to make that distinction. Kids are smart.
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They are. And it isn't a matter of "teaching" them. You are simply showing them something. They'll get the idea quite quickly.
But you
do have to show them. There's no obvious relationship between a paper book and an ereader, and until they see you do it,
young kids aren't likely to realize the latter is a device you can read with.
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Dennis