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Originally Posted by ficbot
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.
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And what, pray tell, differs between a book and an iPad in this regard? I really enjoy a good "I'm so smart" followed by truly tragic reasoning.
If you give a book to a child....and go away...you have no more of all those good things you are attributing to a book. If you sit you child in your lap and read with them on you iPad -- you have ALL of those good things.
And MORE. Because the books themselves can be interactive. I remember when my first child started pestering me at the computer. I didn't want the computer to become the "place of NO!" so I bought some JumpStart reading applications.
At 1.5yrs old, she sat in my lap and we went through the reading/games application together. She learned to use the mouse, and it was all that a book could possibly be and MORE.
I can only imagine how much better it would be with an iPad where we could do the same thing on the couch or on the floor or at the table.
Of course I'm going to give my grandkids (hopefully a good few years from now) actual physical books. But by then there will by "Playschool iPad" or some such as well. It will be fantastic.
Lee