reading books to children or handing read along books?

[ozi3]

do you prefer to read e-books or paper books to your children? or hand read along books to your children and have a break (which is needed). which one are your children interested in?

Reading proper books to my children.
Always.

I don’t know what this mean - “hand read along books to your children and have a break (which is needed)”?

Physical books. If it’s a book I’m reading which doesn’t have picture in then I may use my kindle if we are on holiday but generally I prefer physical books.

I don’t understand the question. We do all of it.

We used both ebooks and proper books. Ebooks were annoyi g as when DD wanted to point at. A picture it would change the page.

Read a long books have their place for example on a car journey but I wouldn't use them instead of reading to her myself.

Sorry for the confusion, I was wondering if you give your children screens to use for read-along aloud books instead of reading to them

@ozi3
Read along books are great for parents who may be illiterate, dyslexic, English not their first language and keeping children engaged when parents are busy etc. There is no replacing a parent reading to a child though, change in voice, discussing the story as you go etc. Use them as a tool by all means and they are much better than a child never being read to but I wouldn't rely solely on them if you have other options.

The screen can be annoying as they can't track the words with their finger to follow along as it changes the page and tracking is an important skill.

I use kindle a lot for myself, but only physical books for children. I'm not sure I love the idea of associating screen and books at such a young age (as obviously we're talking about children who can't read yet). Though mostly tbh the thought hadn't even crossed my mind that I could look for children's books on kindle.

Obviously there may be other factors that make electronic/read along books a good idea for some. But I don't know why, I don't like the idea.

Also if it's read along then I'd rather have a paper book and audio only, rather than a screen. There was a children's magazine when I was young that came with audio tapes, it was great (obviously it can never replace actually reading to kids).