Geared toward interest ages 9-12, join us every Wednesday for the next chapter in our selected chapter book for tweens.

Listening to books has serious benefits for developing readers.

It helps tweens improve their pronunciation and fluency, improves focus and memory, increases attention span, builds comprehension skills, and can boost mental health by relieving stress and calming thoughts. Audiobooks and listening to books read aloud also: 

- Introduces students to books above their reading level

- Models good interpretive reading

- Teaches critical listening

- Highlights the humor in books

- Introduces new genres that students might not otherwise consider

- Introduces new vocabulary or difficult proper names or locales

- Sidesteps unfamiliar dialects or accents, Old English, and old-fashioned literary styles

- Provides a read-aloud model

(extra benefits from readingrockets.org)