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Drawing on decades of audiobook experience and research, librarians Grover and Hannegan convincingly make the case that audiobooks not only present excellent opportunities to engage the attention of young people but also advance literacy. Listening to Learn connects audiobooks with K-12 curricula and demonstrates how the format can support national learning standards and literacy skills by * Presenting a concise history of the audiobook, with commentary from experts in the field * Showing librarians how to harness their library's audiobook collection and practice effective collection dev

Reading --- Literacy --- Educational technology. --- Audiobooks. --- Libraries --- School librarian participation in curriculum planning. --- Children --- Books and reading for children --- Reading interests of children --- Curriculum planning --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Audio books --- Books, Cassette --- Books, Recorded --- Books on tape --- Cassette books --- Recorded books --- Sound recordings --- Instructional technology --- Technology in education --- Technology --- Educational innovations --- Instructional systems --- Teaching --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Study and teaching --- Special collections --- Books and reading. --- Aids and devices --- Didactics of English --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- leesproblemen --- leesbevordering --- leesonderwijs --- Audiobooks