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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't consider audio books or graphic novels reading.[/quote]

Experts would disagree with you.[/quote]

I guess I don't see how looking at pictures or listening to recordings really helps reading. I mean at that point you may as well include TV shows.[/quote]

When you read, you create a voice in your head. When somebody else reads, they create the voice for you. either way, you take a voice and construct meaning from it.

With a graphic novel, there are literal words in there that you read. How is that not reading? Also the pictures do not just tell you what was read. They add more detail or entirely new information.

Here is what a cognitive scientist has to say about it:
http://www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willingham-science-and-education-blog/is-listening-to-an-audio-book-cheating

Oh and Im' the PP whose son listens to audiobooks. DD has read all the same books, but not in audio format. When they discuss the books, there is no difference in the depth of their understanding that cannot be explained by a three-year age gap. If you think of reading as just decoding, sure, audiobooks don't do that. But reading isn't just decoding. [/quote]

Interesting link. Thanks.

And our kids read dozens per year. But we drag them to the library every month and won't leave until they've gathered a handful of age / grade appropriate books. And that includes some illustration heavy tomes. [/quote]

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