RAR #129: Jim Weiss: Storytime with Jim Weiss (and how to read aloud better!)

In this episode we welcome back Jim Weiss, master storyteller and a voice so many of us recognize.

This is a fantastic episode to enjoy with your kids, because Jim tells us two stories during the show: Stone Soup and a tale of Sherlock Holmes, The Mazarin Stone.

Gather everyone ’round and enjoy!

You’ll also hear …

Jim’s two rules for telling our children stories (you’ll love them)
How to handle interruptions… and how to clarify what’s happening in a story without “breaking character”
Why you’re probably better at reading aloud than you realize…

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Listener Guide

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1:53 A special episode!
3:22 STORYTIME: Stone Soup
15:13 Welcome Jim Weiss
15:28 Not any good at reading aloud?
18:11 Reading aloud as an act of love
22:28 A living element
24:00 Keeping kids in the story
27:09 ‘More fairy tales’
29:12 Translating for clarity
32:50 Vocal strain
36:38 STORYTIME: The Mazarin Stone

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Quotes to remember:

“It’s an act of love to sit down and share a story. To pause your schedule. To stop everything else you’re doing and just sit in a story with your child.“ – Sarah Mackenzie

“When it comes to reading aloud, you’re probably better at it than you know. Nobody sounds good to themselves. At the beginning of this, I have the vision that when Meryl Streep’s daughters were kids, they probably said to her, ‘Oh mom, do we have to do this again?’ when she started reading to them.” – Jim Weiss

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