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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
informative
inspiring
Just finished this book my third time through. I connect so closely to this author and love how practical, necessary, and extraordinary she presents the read aloud experience between parent and child.
It’s one that makes me feel like I can conquer the world with my children. One story at a time.
Highly recommended for mothers
It’s one that makes me feel like I can conquer the world with my children. One story at a time.
Highly recommended for mothers
Truth be told, a little too much religion and homeschooling in this book (for my taste). But SO many good nuggets and especially the list of 10 questions to ask during read aloud, the lists by age and suggested activities.
CS Lewis quoted here "Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
4 Reminders: 10 minutes a day counts, audiobooks, light reading is OK and let them move.
CS Lewis quoted here "Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
4 Reminders: 10 minutes a day counts, audiobooks, light reading is OK and let them move.
Did not realize it was so based in Christian faith. Like the reading aloud and connecting with your kids, not into the “all truth leading to Christ” part. Did not research going in. Ended up skimming relevant parts.
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The tone was a little too anecdotal for me and almost lost me in the beginning. Definitely sounds like a blog and feels a bit repetitive.
I’m glad I carried on though, once she gets to the more practical part of the book there’s a lot of helpful and inspiring information.
I probably won’t re read this one, but it did inspire me to make reading a regular part of our day. I will probably revisit the chapters on questions to inspire conversations and the ones on selecting good read aloud books.
I did really appreciate the emphasis on books that are accessible and fun to read rather than literary elitism and prioritizing books that “should” be read.
I’m glad I carried on though, once she gets to the more practical part of the book there’s a lot of helpful and inspiring information.
I probably won’t re read this one, but it did inspire me to make reading a regular part of our day. I will probably revisit the chapters on questions to inspire conversations and the ones on selecting good read aloud books.
I did really appreciate the emphasis on books that are accessible and fun to read rather than literary elitism and prioritizing books that “should” be read.
Reading aloud is nice, but no, one should NOT push aside other academic pursuits to make time for it. And yes, it really does matter what your children read. I'd much rather my kids read less, but better. No Cupcake Diaries (or whatever nonsense she recommends) here. Also, kids must be taught to think critically about a book -- it's not "killing the puppy." It's instruction. This book is an example of something good (reading aloud) being taken out of proportion and given too much space. Reading is not a virtue in and of itself.
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I tapped out on this one hard. It was just....waaaaay too much Jesus. As a librarian and a writer and someone who is deeply interested in literacy and the ways stories ground and influence our lives, the general premise of the Read-Aloud Revival and this book is meaningful, but it stopped being a useful guide/example and started feeling coercive and judgemental in short order. The tone suggests that people who are secular or are not Christian couldn't possibly receive the "true" benefit of reading aloud (spoiler: it's Jesus). Even though the studies cited and the measured practice of reading aloud doesn't have a thing to do with religion-- reading fiction is proven to increase empathy, for example. This is a boon for ANY human, not just Christians, but this text is not interested in that. I found this myopic treatment extraordinarily disappointing.