RAR #125: Master Class, Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (part 1)

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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Listener Guide

Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast:

• 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

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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)

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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

(Download the transcript above for more quotes and pull-outs.)

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Books from this episode:

(All links are Amazon affiliate links.)

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You’ll also enjoy:

• Focus on What Matters Most (psst … that’s your relationship with your kids)
• Delightful, simple reading journals for kids
• Highlights from Read-Aloud Revival Author Access