The Story-driven Brain Neuroscientists are becoming increasingly aware of an essential mode that our brain uses when interacting with the world and receiving information. Just like linguists such as Noam Chomsky posited the „grammar-brain” some 50 years ago, more and...
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Write your own stories for children
Reading stories to children is an important part of their intellectual and personal learning. Through them, they learn new words, concepts, notions, etc. They will also develop their imagination and curiosity. Do you want to write stories for children yourself? All...
Erasmus + “ABIbooks” – Meeting of partners in Romania
The second live meeting of the Erasmus+ ABIbooks program took place in Timișoara, Romania from 29th to 31st August 2022 with representatives from France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Greece. The agenda of the meeting included presentations, discussions, and...
How to make ebooks suitable for children with dys disorders?
ABIBooks is a project that aims to create interactive books, also called “ebooks”, for children aged 0-8 years to enable them to acquire basic literacy and mathematical skills in a fun way that is also suitable for children with possible dys- or learning disorders....
Looking for the perfect “ABIbook”
The first 100 digital interactive books collection is finally ready to be uploaded into ABIbooks digital library! We read, chose and reviewed the best books in each of the partners language. Besides the library creation, we are working to offer interactive books...
Basic literacy and numeracy skills acquisition (1/2): the role of print knowledge
In the classroom a fascinated silence fell. Lila half smiled, almost a grimace, and flung herself sideways, against her deskmate, who was visibly irritated. Then she read in a sullen tone: “Sun.” […] According to Rino, Lila’s older brother, she had learned to read at...
Daddy, are you reading me a story?
I can't imagine a more pleasant, quieter, more pampering activity… (I can't even find the right words to describe this inner experience) for a parent than sitting and reading to the child - nestled in his arms its a good book. Reading is an activity that I warmly...
Digital tools and interactive books – thoughts of the educator and an older brother
Technology in the 21st century is accompanying us at every step - be it at the professional stage, where more and more people work in the office at the computer, preparing documents, presentations, creating movies or music, or in everyday life - using social media is...
Interactive Learning & Digital Libraries
During the last decade, the rapid evolution of the Internet has turned the tide on the areas of learning as well. In this situation, Covid years have been added and they have imposed the integration of e-learning into the school reality. The learning procedure is now...
ABIbooks, the first transnational meeting of a new project partnership
Pre-school children very often do not have the opportunity to acquire basic skills before starting primary school. According to a study by C. Juel (1988 Learning to Read and Write: A Longitudinal Study of 54 Children from First through Fourth Grades. Journal of...