In today’s episode of the Read-Aloud Revival Podcast, I’m sharing a master class straight out of Read-Aloud Revival Premium about how to create a book club culture in your home.
For most of us, the books we read for school growing up were not the same books we read under our covers with a flashlight past our bedtime.
But we can do something better.
We can invite our kids into a reading experience that will help them fall in love with books and become readers for life.
Less like school, more like your favorite book club.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- the importance of knowing WHY you want to raise readers
- how to nurture and protect your kids’ love of reading
- why reading is not broccoli 🥦🤨
I also answer a listener question about… what to do when your kids lose interest part-way through a book…
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- 1:14 Schooling a love of reading out of our kids
- 5:15 When our kids drop books half-way
- 8:17 Creating a haven of reading
- 9:57 A better option
- 11:55 A love of reading
- 16:11 WHY we want to raise readers
- 17:58 In Sarah’s home
- 21:57 What is your child voracious about (hamburgers, anyone?)
- 23:43 Reading is the icing
- 26:29 Know your goal
- 27:27 If your child doesn’t like a book
- 28:54 Emphasize delight
- 32:50 Let the Kids Speak
Links from this episode:
- Join us in Membership! Go to RARmembership.com, and request an invite for when membership opens May 6 – May 10
- RAR #43: Raising Kids Who Read, Dr. Daniel Willingham
- RAR #46: Assigned Versus Free Reading (with Mystie Winkler)
Quotes to remember:
“We don’t want reading to be the vegetables: ‘Eat your vegetables, and you can have dessert.’ Reading is the dessert.” – Sarah Mackenzie
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
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