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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
This was SO good and inspiring. I don't feel the need to own every book I read, but this is one I will absolutely return to again and again.
Full review to come.
Full review to come.
My favorite parenting book :)
Honestly there is so much gold here, I bought my own copy so I could reference it over and over. There is so much power in reading aloud to kids!
Honestly there is so much gold here, I bought my own copy so I could reference it over and over. There is so much power in reading aloud to kids!
Excellent! I loved this book and it definitely inspired me to keep reading to my kids. Some parenting days are just hard, but I know if I make time to read to my kids I’ve had at least one win. Highly recommend to anyone with little people around. ❤️📚
Sarah Mackenzie’s The Read-Aloud Family was even more inspiring than her first book, Teaching From Rest. The most notable difference is the editing is much better this time around, although I still found a few errors. As for the content, Mackenzie makes it clear she was first inspired by Jim Trelease’s book The Read Aloud Handbook, written in the 80’s. From his book, she attributes that reading aloud as a family is a way to build strong bonds among family members, especially when the days are tough, full of trials, and full of discipline. Mackenzie says that reading aloud can weave “inside jokes” (allusions) into the family dynamic, giving the family a natural connection when they can’t seem to find any other way to connect. Most importantly, Mackenzie says that stories provide hope, joy, and lasting memories. Who doesn’t want that for their children and family? She reminds us that we are only with our children temporarily. Eventually they will move out and have their own family. While they are with us, we want to make the most of it, and one surefire way to do that is to read aloud as a family. In doing so, we provide opportunities for our children to live vicariously through the stories we read with them. Of course our children can’t experience every adverse situation known to man, nor do we want them to, but they can read about it, developing empathy for the characters who are “living” those adversities. And sometimes, stories can even offer more than a stern talking to or discipline can offer, because “a story meets the child where he is. It sparks an authentic desire within him to do better, try harder, and love more” p. 49.
On the more academic side of things, Mackenzie writes that “reading to our kids teaches them to think, make connections, and communicate” p. 63. Additionally, it provides our children with exposure to a broader vocabulary and sophisticated language patterns, all while inspiring a love for reading. And that’s the point—encouraging our kids to love reading. How do we do that? Well, Mackenize says we get out of the way. We teach our kids to love reading by reading to them, by surrounding them with stories (whether written or audio), and by allowing them to talk about books in a more organic way, rather than checking their comprehension the way teachers and parents typically tend to. And Mackenzie doesn’t just tell us what we need to do as parents to become a read-aloud family, she gives us the tools. She provides us with questions to ask our children that will surely inspire them to talk about literature. She also offers plenty of book recommendations to choose from depending on the age of our children. As a parent who has always valued reading aloud to my children and has surrounded them with books since birth, The Read-Aloud Family still had something truly magical to offer, and that is reminding me why it is I fill my home with books; why it is I make time to read aloud; why it is I buy more books than I should; why it is we walk to the library multiple times a week; and why it is I allow my children to see me reading—I want my children to know that reading is valuable. Reading is how we learn. Reading is one way we grow in faith. Reading is one way we connect with others. Reading inspires us. Thank you Sarah Mackenzie for writing this book and reminding families why reading is so important and why reading aloud should never cease.
On the more academic side of things, Mackenzie writes that “reading to our kids teaches them to think, make connections, and communicate” p. 63. Additionally, it provides our children with exposure to a broader vocabulary and sophisticated language patterns, all while inspiring a love for reading. And that’s the point—encouraging our kids to love reading. How do we do that? Well, Mackenize says we get out of the way. We teach our kids to love reading by reading to them, by surrounding them with stories (whether written or audio), and by allowing them to talk about books in a more organic way, rather than checking their comprehension the way teachers and parents typically tend to. And Mackenzie doesn’t just tell us what we need to do as parents to become a read-aloud family, she gives us the tools. She provides us with questions to ask our children that will surely inspire them to talk about literature. She also offers plenty of book recommendations to choose from depending on the age of our children. As a parent who has always valued reading aloud to my children and has surrounded them with books since birth, The Read-Aloud Family still had something truly magical to offer, and that is reminding me why it is I fill my home with books; why it is I make time to read aloud; why it is I buy more books than I should; why it is we walk to the library multiple times a week; and why it is I allow my children to see me reading—I want my children to know that reading is valuable. Reading is how we learn. Reading is one way we grow in faith. Reading is one way we connect with others. Reading inspires us. Thank you Sarah Mackenzie for writing this book and reminding families why reading is so important and why reading aloud should never cease.
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So great for new parents wanting to be intentional about cultivating readers in their family!
If I were going to write a book, this would be what I could maybe accomplish. Sarah Mackenzie outlines what I know to be true about reading aloud as a family.
Es un libro que me leí en un periquete, gracias al audiolibro. Me gusta mucho la voz de la autora (narra ella su propio libro), el tema me resulta muy interesante y he sacado algunas ideas para poner en práctica.
Ahora bien, hay ciertas cosas que señalar: primero que si escuchas su podcast pues poco más aporta el libro; es una buena introducción al tema que luego puedes ampliar con el podcast. Segundo, las constantes menciones a dios. Yo ya lo sabía, porque lo había leído en varias reseñas, y no es abrumador, peeero, me genera rechazo.
Me encantaría leer el libro-base de todo esto, que es el de Jim Trelease, pero como no lo tengo en audiolibro pues empecé con éste.
Si no sabes nada del tema, te interesa saber los beneficios de leer en voz alta a lxs niñxs, y entiendes inglés, claro, pues es una buena introducción.
Ahora bien, hay ciertas cosas que señalar: primero que si escuchas su podcast pues poco más aporta el libro; es una buena introducción al tema que luego puedes ampliar con el podcast. Segundo, las constantes menciones a dios. Yo ya lo sabía, porque lo había leído en varias reseñas, y no es abrumador, peeero, me genera rechazo.
Me encantaría leer el libro-base de todo esto, que es el de Jim Trelease, pero como no lo tengo en audiolibro pues empecé con éste.
Si no sabes nada del tema, te interesa saber los beneficios de leer en voz alta a lxs niñxs, y entiendes inglés, claro, pues es una buena introducción.
I loved the inspiration for making reading aloud even more a part of our family culture and continuing even after our kids are reading independently. The booklists in the last chapters are great and I'll be referring back to them in the future. My only word of caution is that it is written from a Christian perspective. I glossed over that and focused on what was important to me, but I can see how it would be off-putting to some.