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Originally Posted by saoir
Based on what evidence ?
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Based on the evidence of being a trained professional in this area. As I said in the article, I am a licensed teacher (in two countries) with professional experience in teaching in this area. I also have special qualifications in second language learning. Good enough?
It's not so much that the child needs to turn the pages themselves in such a situation, it's that you need to observe how they behave with something like pages, so you can sense if they have grasped certain important concepts that prepare them to read. If they have not grasped these concepts, it is a sign they are not developmentally ready to learn to read independently.
I have allowed children to play with the readers too, and as I said, the older children do enjoy it. But anything with a touchscreen is problematic for early readers. And if you try to teach them strategies to get around that, you're losing your focus and it becomes 'how to teach children to interact with technology' and not 'how to teach children to read.'