RAR #14: For Parents Who Don’t Like Reading Aloud
Do you enjoy reading aloud? I know a whole lot of people who don’t. But just because you don’t enjoy reading aloud doesn’t mean you can’t build your family culture around books.
Today on the Read-Aloud Revival podcast, I chat with Mystie Winckler about how audiobooks can make a huge difference in your family’s habit of shared reading.
This episode isn’t just for those who don’t enjoy reading aloud, though- it’s for anyone curious about how to use audiobooks to leverage more read-aloud time in your home.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- where she gets them
- how she finds them for cheap (especially during Audible’s Listener Rewards Month)
- and which devices her kids use to listen to them
Click the play button below:
Books from this episode:
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Links from this episode:
- Mystie’s resources on how to get free and cheap audiobooks on Audible
- My post about reading The Hobbit (shhh! Don’t tell Mystie I’m linking to this one!)
- See if your library has Overdrive so you can borrow audiobooks for FREE!
- Get a free audiobook on Audible when you sign up for a free trial here.
- Librivox offers free audiobooks in the public domain.
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I was listening Podcast 14 and maybe you could update it with a comment at the end of it. At the time when Sarah recorded the podcast Apologia only had one science book in audio but now they have more. I just got all of them.
Thanks!
Hello Sarah, I found you a few weeks ago and have been enjoying your podcast. This one apply to me greatly! English is not my native language and my accent makes reading aloud boring. Thank you for the encouragement!! I will be using audiobooks more frequently!! God bless!
Do you or Mystie have any audio book recommendations for Heidi? I followed your recommendation for the Hobbit. Fantastic!!!
Thank you,
Anita
Hi. What a great show, thanks! I hope you can post more suggestions for great audiobooks (kids and moms) in the future!
Thanks,
Mariana
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Listening to the podcast and thought of a FABULOUS audio book we listened to that we all loved! It was “The Wizard of Oz” read by Anne Hathaway. She did all the voices of all the characters. So fun!!
Did you ever find the list someone sent you of great narrators on librivox?
I still haven’t had a chance to dig it up. I’m hoping we can do that and then (along with some recommendations we got on Facebook) create a PDF with a great big list of awesome Librivox listens. Hopefully by this summer?
Awesome!!! I look forward to that. I just downloaded our first audible book, a really long history book for the Juniors in high school at Classical conversations. The guy reading it is much more exciting to listen to than I would ever be!!! I’m excited to try it throughout the summer. And I put some Pooh on hold at overdrive so I’m excited about that too!!!!
I actually love reading out loud, but I’ve been finding it hard to do with a six month old. This post inspired me to listen with my girls to some of the books I’ve been wanting to read to them. That keeps my hands free to play with the baby and the voice keeps going even if I’m distracted for a moment. We still share the experience–but it’s like having an extra adult around to help.
We are huge on reading aloud but we are also huge on audiobooks during quiet time. I get most of them at the library, but I’m going to check out overdrive, so thanks for the tip! My 7 yo son LOVES listening during his quiet time and just finished the entire Magic Tree House series. I was thinking of doing the Adventures in Odyssey next, or maybe Narnia. I know Odyssey aren’t technically books, but still great audio. :)
And I hate carving pumpkins, too!!
Sarah M
My day just got a whole lot better (and it was already pretty good!). So happy to have a new episode to listen to!
Now that I’ve finished listening, I also wanted to say that I wholeheartedly agree that audiobooks are a great way to read the classics and other denser literature. I just finished Oliver Twist on audio and LOVED it.
It’s a family joke that, whenever I read aloud, I start yawning. Everyone waits to see how far I can make it through the pages before the yawns begin. But that’s part of the fun – along with pausing to discuss what has just been read, and speeding up sometimes when things are exciting, and skipping boring parts – there’s more than reading the book when it comes to reading aloud. Such a wonderful way to spend part of the day with your family.
Thanks Sarah and Mystie! We have also enjoyed hours and hours of audiobooks. My high schoolers still like to have a book playing as they fall asleep. Audiobooks became indispensable when we discovered our third child had dyslexia.
A couple of other resources that have been great for us are:
Lit2Go http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
Learning Ally https://www.learningally.org