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Reading aloud to tweens and teens.

I believe that the trick to reading aloud to your tweens and teens successfully is to make it as fun as possible. Select books that you will both enjoy and feel comfortable sharing together. Get silly or serious depending on what your growing child enjoys most. Talk about the book as you read, but don’t take things too seriously. And, above all, don’t use this as an opportunity to lecture all the time, or that may end your read-alouds fast. More...

Why read aloud to grade school students?

 

This is really the sweet spot for reading aloud for so many people. It’s the time when longer stories with more complicated plot arcs are introduced. Where we can spend weeks or even months sitting together with our children to share one big, long story.

This is also the age where we can make some of the biggest strides and the biggest mistakes More...

Why read aloud to toddlers and kindergartners?

 

Here begins the deep and wondrous world of picture books and repetition. I still love buying picture books and am glad to have a nephew to give me the excuse (not that I needed one).

This is also the age where the phrase “read it again” starts to pop up regularly! Always, always read it again! Read the book until you have it memorized. Read it until you dream of it at night. My daughter wanted to hear certain books so many times More...