I just read the article Can eBooks for Children Really Help them Learn to Read? from The Children’s Book Review.
ebook readers are just too expensive. I heard that a lot of ebook consumers are older than 50 years. Of course, they buy an ebook reader just for fun.
A computer on the other hand is something even parents would buy for their children. It’s an investment. Just imagine all the things you can do with a computer. What can you do with an ebook reader? Well, just read…
While reading the article my attention was instantly drawn to one sentence: “Statistics show that to be on grade level, a 5 year old should have had 1000 hours of reading exposure before they reach school – that is half an hour every day each year for every year they have been alive!”
I think “Can eBooks for Children Really Help them Learn to Read?” is not a relevant question. “How can parents help children learn to read” is what we have to think about. When your child was/will be 5 years old, had it/will it have 1000 hours of reading exposure before it reaches school? Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000 hours rule in his book Ouliers. So how will you manage to add another 9,000 hours?