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A review by kimball_hansen
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids by Sarah MacKenzie
5.0
Loved, loved, loved, this book!!! I'm glad I'm not a parent yet so I can incorporate these teachings when that happens. All you parents that raised kids without reading aloud to them have failed. "Parents! You're the cause of all my-their problems!" - Tony Perkis, Heavyweights.
So many good notes I jotted down:
The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.
Instead of being at your wit's end and telling the kids to stop such and such, relate to them by telling them to stop acting like a character in a book you're reading together. It will diffuse the situation and it brings a sense of closeness as you all know that book well that you've loved reading together.
The stories we read together act as a bridge when we can't seem to find another way to connect. They are a currency, language, and culture.
Stories are comfort food.
Reading aloud is so helpful because a child's listening comprehension level is much higher than his reading comprehension level.
A story allows our children to practice living through an experience vicariously. Yet vicarious reading isn't as vicarious as we thought. We learn empathy.
When we read aloud we give our kids practice living as heroes, practice dealing with life and death situations, practice living with virtue, practice failing at virtue. As our heroes struggle with hardship, we struggle with them. A powerful story quickens the heroes heartbeat within us. Well chosen words touch and transform our souls, making us want to become better than we are right now.
A story meets the child where he is. It can reach them where nothing else can, especially from a nagging parent.
3 benefits for reading aloud to kids:
1) Increased vocabulary and highly sophisticated language patterns. Vocabulary helps the most for kindergartners.
2) the ability to make connections in other words reading comprehension.
3) a love for reading.
So how do you read to a High Schooler aged child? Listen to audiobooks while in the car or at home. That will help get the ball rolling. Like dad would do with me butt hat was more late elementary and junior high.
A child will likely have great self-esteem if she believes her parents like her and want to spend time with her. That's so neat.
I like that she makes reading planned fun but giving the children a treat or they have a picnic.
I like that she talked up audiobooks. And all the book recommendations are many that I've read and if I haven't I'll be dog earring them for later.
I like that she gives her kids a book allowance each month so they can purchase a book.
I like the idea of literary matchmaking, and recommending quality books to our kids and other people.
Not every book needs to be discussed.
Good questions to strike up meaningful conversation with your child:
What does the character want and why don't they have it?
Should he have done that? Why?
How is x like/different than y?
Who we most courageous?
What does this story or character remind you of?
What is the character most afraid of?
What would you change if you wrote the book?
What surprised you most?
Which character most reminds you of yourself?
What is something you don't want to forget?
4 year olds are good age to start reading to them where they're paying attention to the book.
Ages 8 through 12 even though they can read on their own, it's still important to read books to them aloud. Most parents stop reading at this age but this is when you want to increase your reading with them. Remember their reading comprehension is less than their listening.
All these books she's recommending just makes me want to read them all!
"A children's story that is only enjoyed by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last" - CS Lewis
So many good notes I jotted down:
The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.
Instead of being at your wit's end and telling the kids to stop such and such, relate to them by telling them to stop acting like a character in a book you're reading together. It will diffuse the situation and it brings a sense of closeness as you all know that book well that you've loved reading together.
The stories we read together act as a bridge when we can't seem to find another way to connect. They are a currency, language, and culture.
Stories are comfort food.
Reading aloud is so helpful because a child's listening comprehension level is much higher than his reading comprehension level.
A story allows our children to practice living through an experience vicariously. Yet vicarious reading isn't as vicarious as we thought. We learn empathy.
When we read aloud we give our kids practice living as heroes, practice dealing with life and death situations, practice living with virtue, practice failing at virtue. As our heroes struggle with hardship, we struggle with them. A powerful story quickens the heroes heartbeat within us. Well chosen words touch and transform our souls, making us want to become better than we are right now.
A story meets the child where he is. It can reach them where nothing else can, especially from a nagging parent.
3 benefits for reading aloud to kids:
1) Increased vocabulary and highly sophisticated language patterns. Vocabulary helps the most for kindergartners.
2) the ability to make connections in other words reading comprehension.
3) a love for reading.
So how do you read to a High Schooler aged child? Listen to audiobooks while in the car or at home. That will help get the ball rolling. Like dad would do with me butt hat was more late elementary and junior high.
A child will likely have great self-esteem if she believes her parents like her and want to spend time with her. That's so neat.
I like that she makes reading planned fun but giving the children a treat or they have a picnic.
I like that she talked up audiobooks. And all the book recommendations are many that I've read and if I haven't I'll be dog earring them for later.
I like that she gives her kids a book allowance each month so they can purchase a book.
I like the idea of literary matchmaking, and recommending quality books to our kids and other people.
Not every book needs to be discussed.
Good questions to strike up meaningful conversation with your child:
What does the character want and why don't they have it?
Should he have done that? Why?
How is x like/different than y?
Who we most courageous?
What does this story or character remind you of?
What is the character most afraid of?
What would you change if you wrote the book?
What surprised you most?
Which character most reminds you of yourself?
What is something you don't want to forget?
4 year olds are good age to start reading to them where they're paying attention to the book.
Ages 8 through 12 even though they can read on their own, it's still important to read books to them aloud. Most parents stop reading at this age but this is when you want to increase your reading with them. Remember their reading comprehension is less than their listening.
All these books she's recommending just makes me want to read them all!
"A children's story that is only enjoyed by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last" - CS Lewis