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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
On today's Jeremy Vine show
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Some children, upon being given a book to read for the first time, were trying to move their finger across like a phone to read it!
This sounds like a joke but she said it was perfectly true.
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This fails the sniff test. The child may interact with their first book at a simple level based on experience of touchscreen devices they may have handled before (e.g. when shown a video by a parent).
In practice this is no different from a young child putting a pen up its nose or in its ear. Or eating plasticine. It’s experimenting with the world around it.
Nobody is teaching their kid to read at home on a iPad then sending them to nursery or school with no concept of paper books.