Tutorial 03
Digital picture books
You can do shared book reading with your child with paper books and digital books. Reading a digital picture book together will also get you talking.
Digital books have several advantages
Videos with German Sign Language
Selection of several languages
Zoom function to discover details
Digital books are useful when you’re on the move. You can read them on the internet or download them from anywhere.
Your child learns how to use digital media such as smartphones or tablets.
Digital books have several advantages
Videos with German Sign Language
Selection of several languages
Zoom function to discover details
Digital books are useful when you’re on the move. You can read them on the internet or download them from anywhere.
Your child learns how to use digital media such as smartphones or tablets.
Digital books can also have disadvantages
Digital books have many additional functions such as moving pictures, sounds, music and games. These functions can be helpful and stimulating if you can switch them on and off yourself. However, sometimes they can also distract your child and prevent your child from developing own thoughts and start up conversations with you.
Digital books can also have disadvantages
Digital books have many additional functions such as moving pictures, sounds, music and games. These functions can be helpful and stimulating if you can switch them on and off yourself. However, sometimes they can also distract your child and prevent your child from developing own thoughts and start up conversations with you.
Examples for this are:
Too much stimulation from moving images, sounds and music can damage concentration and prevent relaxation.
Games that appear in the middle of the story can pull your child out of the story.
Advertising and possible app purchases are annoying.
Use the digital ReaDi picture books.
You’ll find lots of support here:
The ReaDi picture books want to get you into conversation with your child. That’s why there’s nothing in these books that could distract you.
You can look at each picture book in German, German Sign Language, Arabic, English and Turkish. You can choose or change the language yourself.
You can have the most important signs shown to you for each picture book.
You can display questions and impulses in German and German Sign Language to talk to your child about the picture book.
You and your child can also have the books read to you in German, as each picture book has a clickable read-aloud option.
Exercises
Exercises
Look at a ReaDi picture book on your own and try out all the functions. Which functions are suitable for shared book reading with your child?
Make a note of which functions you want to use in the book and try them out the next time you do shared book reading.