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Originally Posted by Catlady
Unless it's a matter of recognizing some odd spelling of a name they've only heard, I don't see how anyone would know if the kid listened to an audiobook, based on any test of comprehension.
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That brings to mind Game of Thrones. I had listened to the audiobooks years before the series came out. And only then I found out that it wasn't Geoffrey but Joffrey...
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Originally Posted by silverraven
My youngest son also listened instead of "read". Not a single teacher cared. So many kids didn't do anything they were just happy when the books were consumed.
Now watching a movie of the book on the other hand, that didn't fly with them. But audio books were always fine. Unabridged of course.
My son still does most of his 'for fun' reading with audio books.
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I think it depends on the reason why a book should be read. Most often kids have to read books to be able to explain why the book was written, what style was used and other such things. Or even so that children get to use their imagination!
If you have to read a book for the reading (i.e. the combinations of letters that will form a word, which together will form a sentence), I doubt even an audiobook would be good enough
