What can a university professor say about the value of reading aloud for future academic and relational success?
A lot, actually. If that professor is also a mother of many, she’ll lend a perspective on fitting read-aloud time into busy family life, and the value of even five minutes a day spent diving into a story with your kids.
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Catherine Pakaluk from Ave Maria University.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- why students who have been read aloud to fare better than their peers in college
- how she carves out time to make reading aloud a priority as a working mother of seven
- and why even five minutes a day can add up to a whole heck of a lot of reading
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Links from this episode:
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- Links to Dr. Joseph Price’s research, which Dr. Pakaluk references on the show: The Effect of Parental Time Investments, Time vs. Money- Which Resources Matter for Children?, The Time Use of Teenagers
- Story Nory– free audio stories read every week by Natasha Gostwick and friends
- Books Should Be Free– lots of free audio books (especially classics)
- Sarah recommends everything published by Bethlehem Books
- Ave Maria University is a thriving college that emphasizes truth and beauty in the hearts and minds of its students. Did you know that about 1/3 of students at Ave Maria University were homeschooled all the way through high school?
Books from this episode:
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The Complete Works of G. A. Henty (81 Complete Works)
**Description from Amazon: 81 Complete Works of G. A. Henty
A Chapter of Adventures
A Final Reckoning
A Girl of the Commune
A Jacobite Exile
A Knight of the White Cross
A March on London
A Roving Commission
A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3),
A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3),
At Aboukir and Acre
At Agincourt
At the Poin...
Anne of Green Gables
**Description from Amazon: The beloved debut of one of literature’s most irresistible young heroinesSent to Green Gables farm by mistake, eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley prays that Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert will decide to keep her nevertheless. The middle-aged brother and sister wanted a boy to help around the farm; ...
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Little House on the Prairie: Little House, Book 3
The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowin...
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Fourth Edition)
**Description from Amazon: Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education―by doing it yourself.The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, c...
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