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The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
Sarah MacKenzie
4.31 AVERAGE
362 reviews for:
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
Sarah MacKenzie
4.31 AVERAGE
I’ve had this one on my reading list for a while. When I happened upon it at the library I promptly picked it up. After only getting a couple chapters into it I immediately ordered my own copy to keep. I have enjoyed reading aloud to my 10 and 7 year old since they were babies. This book made me all the more want to keep reading and try and squeeze in more read-aloud time in (especially as summer is right around the corner). It also has SO MANY good books listed as suggestions that I know my family will not run out of book ideas for quite a while!
LOVED this. Honestly way more interesting than I thought it would be. She uses so many quotes and real-life examples throughout the book, gives great recommendations, and makes a ton of really good points! I found myself really encouraged to create more read-aloud time and to look past so many of the common excuses: will I miss the literary themes myself, what if I don’t ask the right questions, what if they don’t like it, I only have 10 minutes, etc. Highly recommend!
I simply can’t recommend this book enough. Some parenting books often leave me feeling slightly overwhelmed because just LOOK at all the things I’m not doing right! But Sarah Mackenzie has written a book that simply encourages. She helps you find your footing and gives you a tangible way to start reading and making connections with your kids. There are wonderful book lists at the back of the book that have been created specifically with read alouds in mind. This is a phenomenal book and if you have kids in your life (Grandkids! Nieces! Nephews! ANY KIDS!), you need this book!
I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting this book to be, but it ended up being so much more. I already love reading aloud to my kids, but this book did give me so much more to think through and incorporate into our read aloud time. There is a ton of encouragement and practical suggestions in this book, including book lists for different ages in the last few chapters. Honestly, there are book suggestions throughout the entire book, so get your pen ready!
I liked stories and reading as a child, but I honestly didn't fall in love with books and reading until I became an adult. For some reason, I have always had the nagging thought in my head that reading fiction is a "waste of time" and I'm not really sure where that came from. I don't think I was told that as a child, but I can definitely recognize times in my adult life when it's been implied by others. Sarah Mackenzie not only gives us "permission" to read fiction to our kids, but so much encouragement on why we should and how stories and reading aloud is so, so good for them (and us).
This whole book was so refreshing to my soul during a time of feeling "in the weeds" of raising tiny humans. I'm very thankful I chose to read it when I did.
I liked stories and reading as a child, but I honestly didn't fall in love with books and reading until I became an adult. For some reason, I have always had the nagging thought in my head that reading fiction is a "waste of time" and I'm not really sure where that came from. I don't think I was told that as a child, but I can definitely recognize times in my adult life when it's been implied by others. Sarah Mackenzie not only gives us "permission" to read fiction to our kids, but so much encouragement on why we should and how stories and reading aloud is so, so good for them (and us).
This whole book was so refreshing to my soul during a time of feeling "in the weeds" of raising tiny humans. I'm very thankful I chose to read it when I did.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Good tips, though my background in reading means that a lot were not new. Loved the reminders about reading to bigger kids and will revisit her book lists.
To be honest, I devoured this book while we started reading 2 books out loud this week. one as a family and one with me and my oldest child alone. It helped reaffirm my conviction that the time is worth it...even on a busy day. If you have listened to the read-aloud-revival podcast from episode one, I don't think that you are necessarily going to find anything new or intensely riveting. In fact for much of the book I felt like I was finally just getting a written out transcription of all my favorites parts of all the episodes in the podcast. That is not to say that I regret having purchased and read the book. The book lists, the breaking down the lists into ages was incredibly helpful as I went about picking the few books I have time to read loud to my children this summer. I also highlighted many many quotes in my kindle app to come back to and enjoy in the future when I am running low on steam in my parenting. I loved holding a piece of the author in my hands to remember the reason I fell in love with the read aloud podcast when I found it and it was just on the 4th episode. I am grateful it's grown and that the author has taken time to write down her personal convictions so this subject can be shared with a larger and larger audience in the world. Worth a read and worth owning my own copy so I can spend a lifetime in the index of book titles at the end of the book and read every good book I can get my hands on.
I really can't say enough good things about Sarah Mackenzie. If you listen to her podcast, the Read-Aloud Revival, you are probably already aware of this book and at least somewhat familiar with it's contents. I say, read it anyway! Even though I've heard Sarah say many of the things expressed in this book before, reading it in print helped solidify the ideas in my mind and provided a lot of "aha!" lightbulb moments. I also appreciate that I now have a great reference book to come back to again and again as my kids get older and our read-aloud time adjusts.
This is the kind of family environment I want to cultivate — the kind that reads together!
Good factoids about why reading aloud with your kids is a good idea. There’s also handy book recommendation list divided by age that I plan on utilizing.
Good factoids about why reading aloud with your kids is a good idea. There’s also handy book recommendation list divided by age that I plan on utilizing.
This book covers the myriad of benefits of reading aloud to your kids. I think there was a lot of overlap with the Read Aloud Handbook, which I read in 2013 (thanks Grandma Sue!). This book has some great reading lists that I’ll reference again.