Podcast: Read-Aloud Revival

RAR #156: Answering Your Q’s About Audio Books for Kids

In today’s episode, I’m answering several of your questions about audio books for kids. Let’s talk favorite narrators, whether audio books hold you children back from learning to read on their own, and more. In this episode,

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RAR #155: Your Questions… and Library’s Most Wanted

In today’s episode, I’m answering your questions – from reading to separate age groups and how to make time for that (!), to what to do if summer reading programs make your kids want to read LESS… In this episode,

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RAR #154: When Your Child Doesn’t Love Reading

We know that we want our kids to love to read. And it’s important (really important!) to give them the best chance fall in love with books. That’s why so many of us get worried when we have a child who doesn’t love reading. It’s a valid worry.

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RAR #153: Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition

In today’s episode, I’m joined by the woman who recently faced the daunting challenge of updating Jim Trelease’s much beloved Read-Aloud Handbook. Cyndi Giorgis takes us behind the scenes of updating The Read-Aloud Handbook,

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RAR #152: Finishing the School Year Doesn’t Need to Be a Slog

Being stuck at home is getting old fast, but finishing the school year doesn’t need to be a slog. We’ve heard you loud and clear: it’s really, really hard to concentrate on homeschooling right now. And we all want to finish the school year strong,

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RAR #151: It’s a Story… So What? Barb Rosenstock

When is a story worth telling? And why are the best stories in history seen through the lens of a single human being? We’re diving into those questions to day with one of the most talented and effervescent authors I know: Barb Rosenstock.

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RAR #150: Water Your Bamboo—How to Focus on the Process (not the outcome) in your Homeschool

Did you know that when you plant bamboo, you will water it, protect it, nurture it…and nothing happens for 5 years? At least it looks like nothing is happening, because it’s all happening underground, where the bamboo is growing a complex root structur…

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RAR #149: Keeping Up with Advanced Readers, Colleen Kessler

If you have a gifted, twice-exceptional, or advanced reader, this episode is for you. Today I’m chatting with Colleen Kessler of Raising Lifelong Leaners. A gifted specialist and mother of her own gifted and twice-exceptional kids,

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RAR #148: 3 Books I Adore, Reading Curriculum, and What We’re Reading Aloud this Spring

I’ve got a brand new episode of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast for you, and it’s a good one. In this episode, you’ll hear: Which 3 books I’d bring with me to a desert island 🏝 (it was torture to answer this listener question!

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