The current generation of children are more used to watching a movie than reading a book. It is a habit that follows the homeschool students into their classrooms. If you wish your children were more interested in reading the book, here’s a great way to bring them into the book reading club. Add some videos and audio tracks to the book, a couple of QR squares to be scanned and viola the boring old book has been transformed using a smartphone in to a multimedia marvel.
Get interactive with the books
The story book which can have a video attached to it, along with a song that the child can sing along is definitely going to be more popular than one which has just some pretty pictures printed in it. The first time you read Alf the Workshop Dog by Emma Calin, you can rest assured that your homeschool student will teach you just how to scan the QR code to reach the YouTube video where the national anthem can be seen. Don’t be surprised if you have to watch the video more than once and even find yourself humming the tune.
Hunt for Interactive Books on Amazon
If you are wondering where you will find such books, its very simple. The online Amazon store has a fair number of such children’s books. In the search box type out interactive books in the children’s books department and you will have a great many results to pick from. Choose stories that would be interesting to your child when you buy your books. Trust me, once they discover how easy it is to connect the story in the book to a video online or a set of images that they can play with, it is going to become their new favorite read.
Once you have hooked them on such interactive books, you can gradually make them focus on the actual written word where the story plays out. Now they will be more receptive to actually reading the story and gradually you can move them on to regular books. That’s the beauty of using an available educational tool to meet your end result of getting your kids to read more books!
