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The Mango reader app is all out with a new line of entertaining story books. These books are catered to all ages. The author of these stories is the very creative and renowned Sheetal Sharma who has worked in collaboration with Tushar publications. It offers a fully interactive reading experience packed with Games, activities, learning puzzles and pictures, it is sure to bring a smile on your child’s face. The new line consists of eight interactive story books such as the ‘Lovable Rolly Polly’, ‘Tricky Fox’, ‘Basket full of toys’, ‘Share and be a Dear’ and many more.

Mango Reader encourages reading and literacy, we request you all to be part of our ‘Start Reading’ campaign which

- ENCOURAGES literacy skills with highlighted narration

- LEARN new vocabulary with tappable words and pictures

- RECORD your own narration & share it with others

- SHARE a story with your own voice and artwork

- TRACK reading progress and learning data.

For more information log onto-

http://mangoreader.com/read

Download our app on the App Store-

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mangoreader-storybooks-library/id568003822?ls=1&mt=8

It was a fine Monday morning, sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? Interestingly it truly was a “ Fine Monday Morning.”

All excited to intern for a flourishing startup I walked in to the seemingly intense office. Although I was cleared of this misconception as it was a host of the friendliest people ever.

I was introduced to the team as soon as I walked in and given a brief of the rich history the startup possessed.

Mango Sense particularly interested me as it was something different from blazing high tech which had engulfed the startup market. It also provided a fusion of mainstream ebooks and standard animation clips. To me it proved to be the epitome of technological education for children.

So my first day at the office was pretty eventful, I met a lot of people and got an opportunity to learn about the company it its functioning. Most importantly I was enlightened by the true vision or mantra of this organization. Picasso once said that “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Mango Sense as a whole preserves that thought an incorporates it in its products and motivations.

Working in a startup requires the ultimate form of passion and dedication. Tech Crunch and Wired articles are unable to portray the true emotions that go into startups.

While in school watching shows like Silicon Valley, movies like Social Network and Jobs and following startups from dropbox to airbnb truly gave me the hype about working for such companies. Fortunately today that urge is fulfilled, I can proudly say that I am part of the culture; with messy whiteboards,scattered tables, wires floating around the place, empty cartons, makeshift offices and most importantly high spirited and dynamic employees.

It has only been a few days since I have started my internship and to be honest the experience has been overwhelming and nothing like ever before.

As Mayor De Blasio’s Pre-k initiative gets off the ground in New York City, the impact of early learning is becoming increasingly apparent. According to reading specialist Maryanne Wolf, “Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story.” She also adds that the more talking children hear and the more they are read to, the more words they experience and the more prepared they are for school learning. While many parents know that reading to their kids is important, they aren’t clued into its specific benefits. Here are eight important reasons to read to your child early on:

Expansion of world view. In books (and in conversations) children are exposed to new ideas—they visit far away places, see new things, feel new feelings, and go on cognitive and emotional adventures.

Object identification. Vision, perception, and language work together to connect an object with a word, and then children develop memories of what they’ve seen. Books increase their scopes of reference.

Everything has a name. It is easy for adults to forget that infants and toddlers don’t know a fork is called a fork, a tree is called a tree, and so on. When we talk to children we name their world and expand their universe of concepts. Books do an even better job of catapulting this process through image and story.

Connection between text and image. Beautiful images encourage focus, questioning, and the drive to know more; children begin to use pictures to prompt letter and word recognition, connections with characters, and sequencing skills.

The delight of literary language. The pairing of powerful images with evocative literary language helps to develop children’s minds. Growing up hearing older and/or more complex language allows children to develop an ever-expanding universe of words.

Phonological development. As children hear language they begin to identify different sounds, and learn to connect starting and ending sounds and make rhymes.

Book sense. Experience handling books teaches children the logic of how texts work physically, the direction in which the home language is read, and the rhythm of turning pages.

Letters make words and words make sentences. Children who are read to begin to understand the building blocks of the reading process. They recognize each letter as an object with a sound, each word as a small picture, and multiple words coming together as a sentence with meaning.

Beyond these eight important reasons, reading is just another way to bond with your child. So encourage more talk at home, in your kids’ classes, and in infant and toddler learning centers, so we can expand the minds of these early learners.

AUTHOR: RENEE BOCK

@tarasharmasaluj Amazing review on Songs for Grandchildren. #mangoreader http://t.co/ac3xYzVdOX. Kids loving it. @SrBachchan

— Mango Reader (@mangoreader)

June 11, 2014

Startups are often like taking a ride on The Cyclone in Coney Island. There are moments of unmatched exultation and equally incorrigible despair. Yet all these euphoric and gut-wrenching moments are interspersed with moments of sullen hankering for the inevitable loop the loop to arrive on this roller coaster.

On any of these ordinary days, a good 5 million children would be learning their alphabets and their numbers, in nurseries, schools, madrassas, homes or even on the streets painstakingly instructed by teachers and parents, a ritual that dates back to the river civilizations.

Yet, not all children learn their alphabets and numbers at the same rate, which is often not a function of instruction but the mode itself. We at MangoReader start everyday with this fundamental realization and attempt to change it in ways that have come to define us.

But this was no quotidian day-the quintessential Joe Blog day spent typing away 9 to 5 and staring out windows at the blaring and the setting suns. This was a day when we had more reason to believe in what we did. And this reinforcement came from the most unlikely of sources, a man India knows by the name of Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.

“Children enjoy enacting and singing nursery rhymes - what better way could there be to develop a healthy, creative, imaginative and educational mind for kids, than through action, song and dance - definitely the most effective type of education for our tiny tots. Songs for Grandchildren encapsulates all that. "-Amitabh Bachchan on The Counting Song.. 

It suffices to say that we have been extremely fortunate to have Partap Sharma’s The Counting Song and his other children’s books, courtesy his daughter; Tara Sharma coupled with the wisdom of a man as Mr.Bachchan.

To cultivate a value in your child ?

How old is your child? How many days more before the teenage hit your home? How many more days do you have left to tell your child this is right and this wrong? Parents always wish to pass on to their children some character traits that they idealise. You know, honesty; or perhaps punctuality. I personally know a parent who feels strongly that their kids should grow up to be proper patriotic gentlemen. (Right now both these proper patriotic gentlemen are below average human waist-height and in their house there is always some kind of improper activity going on in that altitude.).

The only time you may safely bet on is their childhood. What is impressed upon a person in their childhood stays with them all life. Once they reach teenage there is a limit to how much you can get the child listen to and respect your view of things. Your tiny thing is one chance given to you to grow a nice person whom everybody will look up to one day. How do you do it?

  It is fairly easy – tell them a story.  Storytelling is one of our oldest art forms. Folktales and fables are the oldest educational tools through which cultures have passed down values and lore from one generation to the next.

What is in a language?

In a place like India where there are more than 1600 officially recognised languages, conserving one’s mother tongue may prove tricky. But then, a language does not need a lot of efforts to get conserved. It only needs to be spoken.

A story in your mother tongue is more than just a story. It carries the essence and colour of your culture and the social outlook of your community, inherently. A native tongue is an identity, and has vestiges of history, of culture and traditions. When a child reads a story in the language that his parent or grandparents speak in, it grows in him the sense of belonging and helps develop his sense of identity.

In these days of commercial living and impersonal relations where kids speak English way more than their mother tongue, help conserve your language and help your child develop a sense of identity.

Tell him a story in your mother tongue. Your child will need it, before he has to go off into the world devoid of uniqueness.

Here are some stories to get you started.

About Bunnies - NewEnglish

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537321a569702d2eaa030000

אודות ארנבים - Hebrew

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/5384771969702d50bf030000

Tavsanlar Ile Ilgili - Turkish 

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e56d969702d33dd030000

Sobre Conejos - Spanish

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e55cc69702d3360030000

Nyuszi Mese - Hungarian 

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e540269702d328a030000

Si Kelinci -Indonesian

http://mangoreader.com/preview/537e532c69702d3222030000

Despre iepurasi- Romanian 

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e529269702d31d4030000

A Proposito Di Coniglietti - Italian

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e520269702d318b030000

Acerca de Coelhinhos - Portugese 

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e4f2f69702d303a030000

小兔兔的故事 -Chinese - Simplified 

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537e4e7769702d2fe4030000

Über Häschen - German

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537b5b8b69702d49c0030000

Au suject des lapins - French 

http://mangoreader.com/live_stories/537b59de69702d4901030000

The term ‘mother tongue’ harks back to the notion that linguistic skills of a child are honed by the mother and, therefore, the language spoken by the mother would be the primary language that the child would learn.

The mother tongue, native or first language, is what a person has learned from birth or within a critical period, where the ability to acquire a language is biologically linked to age, and thus becomes the basis for social identity.it  is part of a child’s personal, social and cultural identity. It is this identification we get from speaking our mother tongue that enforces successful social patterns of acting and speaking. Our diverse social backgrounds make us unique and appealing in society.

The mother tongue is an indispensable instrument for the development of intellectual, physical and moral aspects of education. Habits, conducts, values, virtues, customs and beliefs are all shaped through the mother tongue. Needless to say, weakness in the mother tongue means a paralysis of all thought and power of expression.

 When children are offered opportunities to learn in their mother tongue, they are more likely to enroll and succeed in school and their parents are more likely to communicate with teachers and participate in their children’s learning. Mother tongue-based education, especially benefits disadvantaged groups, including children from rural communities and girls, who tend to have less exposure to an official language. They tend to stay in school longer, achieve better and repeat grades less often when they are taught in their mother tongue.

Fluency and literacy in the mother tongue lay a cognitive and linguistic foundation for learning additional languages.  When children receive formal instruction in their first language throughout primary school and then gradually transition to academic learning in the second language, they learn the second language quickly. If they continue to have opportunities to develop their first language skills in secondary school, they emerge as fully bilingual (or multilingual) learners. 

If, however, children are forced to switch abruptly or transition too soon from learning in their mother tongue to schooling in a second language, their first language acquisition may be weakened or even lost. Even more importantly, their self-confidence as learners and their interest in what they are learning may decline, leading to lack of motivation, school failure and early school drop-out.

Knowing the importance of Mother tongue and teaching children through stories,MangoReader believes that if we can instil in our children a love of reading for pleasure and lifelong learning,we will give them the tools to change the face of our nation forever.Having access to story books in their own language allows them to discover other childhood worlds,of imagination and fantasy,which they have sometimes been deprived of,helps them coping strategies and shows them the importance of their own language.Children can enjoy these interactive stories at Mangoreader not only in their mother tongue but also in their mother's voice,making it one of the most astounding and loved interactive tool for learning through Stories.

We are looking for volunteers to help us translate, record and make interactive story books for children to make mother tongue learning accessible and available to children across the globe. 

Join us for the cause on www.mangoreader.com and help spread the word.

Share the love of reading with the little ones in your life.

Reading helps all of us in many areas of our lives. It helps people become successful in school and later in their careers. Avid reading allows us to grow as individuals by teaching us new information and by staying connected to our local and global communities.Reading can also help us become more compassionate and empathetic to others, as well as give us pure enjoyment and relaxation.

Instilling a love of reading in your child is one of the best gifts you can give them in their life. Here are 5 ways to do just that.

Read to them regularly, with expression and in different voices and then model reading in your daily life. Let your child see you read often. It can be cookbooks, magazines, the newspaper, novels or non-fiction.

Talk about the books or articles you have been reading. This is a great thing to do at dinner time or for 20 to 30 minutes after dinner. Share the excitement or intrigue you have experienced and enjoy how contagious this enthusiasm can be!

Find books that come with a CD either in bookstores or the library so your child can listen and follow along. This is also a fantastic way to encourage reluctant readers or to keep the motivation high for those children who are struggling with learning how to read.

Always give books as at least one part of a birthday, or holiday gift.

Take your child to the library regularly. It could be to participate in a library program or just to hang out and read. What about making every second Sunday your family’s library day and follow it up with a hot chocolate so you can all talk about the books you read?