Werden Kinder durch Hörbücher vom eigenen Lesen abgehalten und dadurch schlechter in Rechtschreibung?

I’m sure you’re not getting worse in spelling. You just don’t improve.

On the other hand, I am convinced that children who read a lot are in advantage from the outset. A child who reads a lot will hardly happen to be confused with “the one who/if, are/beside, that/that”. It sees these words so often in texts in completely different contexts that it automatically writes them correctly1. It will also not write “unzwar, the law, pumacy, invalid” or the like. These and other terms do not occur equally frequently, but they also impress, and if you read consciously, then you also understand that “final” has something to do with “end” and not with “death” or “away/free from, apart”. In addition, each child expands his vocabulary completely by reading. It becomes even more eager in expression, can write better essays, letters etc. You listen to him more interested because it can speak more interestingly.

If, of course, these are issues on the Krach-Bumm-Zisch-Rassel-Niveau or are images stories only with mini-dialogers, but without any descriptive text, then it is hardly possible to assume that this kind of “Lektüre” has a fruitful effect on spelling and vocabulary enlargement.

Yes, it may be that some children are held by the convenience of the audiobooks from their own reading. That’s a shame. Because it’s a part of the imagination to flourish. With a film, my imagination is given almost no room, everything is served, I just have to swallow it. In the case of a hearing book, I can at least imagine the images themselves, but by the narrator the mood is given, and the voices of the characters also influence me as to the perception of the characters.

1 In actual Legasthenics this may be different. Only today will it – it seems to me – each, who can’t write correctly, attests that he’s a legassian.