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Read-Aloud Revival Podcast Episodes
RAR#206: A Simple, Low-Pressure Approach to Teach Shakespeare
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RAR #205: Help! My Child Doesn’t Like Reading
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RAR #204: How Do You Organize Books in Your Home Library?
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RAR #203: What Do Your Kids Read for Fun in High School?
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RAR #202: For Kids Who Don’t Like Sad Stories
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RAR #201: The Surprising Value of Reading Fewer Books
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Name What Matters in Your Homeschool This Spring
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RAR # 199: The Books that Won, and Few That Should Have (2022 Youth Media Awards)
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RAR #198: Which Curriculum Should I Use? (and other questions with life-changing answers)
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RAR #197: Hey Mamas, Reading for Pleasure is Part of the Job!
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RAR #196: Teaching Literature Without Curriculum
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RAR #195: “So Many Books, So Little Time!” How to Quell Overwhelm in Our Reading Lives
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RAR #194: Let’s Talk About Loving Your Homeschool Life
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Blessings Pressed Down, Shaken Together
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RAR #193: A Relaxed, Read-Aloud Christmas
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RAR #192: Help! My Kids Hate Narration
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RAR #191: Helping your ADHD or Dyslexic Child Love Reading
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RAR #190: Sarah’s Favorite Stories About Christian Saints and Heroes
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RAR #189: What if my kids always pick screens over books?
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RAR #188: My kids aren’t picking good books at the library. What do I do?
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RAR #187: How to find books that engage both an 8- and a 4-year-old
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RAR #186: Should my kids’ reading correlate with their history studies?
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RAR #185: Should I Use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons?
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RAR #184: What to do if your developing reader skips words when reading
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RAR #183: Should We Avoid Abridged or Adapted Versions of the Classics?
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RAR #182: 5 Books I want you to know about, and answers to your questions about reading a book a day
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RAR #181: Practical Tips for Reading a Book a Day
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RAR #180: Reading A Book a Day with Older Kids and Teens
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RAR #179: Do You See What I See? How to Look Closely at a Picture Book
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RAR#178: Why read a book a Day? (Yep, You Can!)
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RAR Special Edition: Robert McCloskey Makes Way
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RAR #177: Teach Your Kids to Think Like a Scientist (with Books You Already Have)
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RAR #176: Homeschooling with Dyslexia
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RAR #175: Is My Child Dyslexic?
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RAR #174: The Books that Won (and a few that Should Have!)
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RAR #173: What Happens in Your Child’s Brain when You Read Aloud
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RAR #172: Helping Our Developing Readers Fall in Love with Books
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RAR #171: How to Introduce Your Kids to Shakespeare
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RAR #170: How to Read a Wordless Book
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RAR #169: The Read-Aloud Challenge
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RAR #168: Special Edition, Christmas Stories
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RAR #167 Christmas with Tomie dePaola and Winter at RAR
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RAR #166: What’s the deal with open-ended questions?
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RAR #165: When reading starts to feel like school
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RAR # 164: Our Favorite Way to Read through History (and a new FREE resource)
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RAR #163: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, Alan Jacobs
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RAR #162: Why and How Reading Aloud Will Change Your Children’s Lives Forever (Mem Fox)
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RAR #161: Becoming Your Child’s Mentor and Awaking Wonder, Sally Clarkson
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RAR #160: Not Killing the Love of Reading (and the Fall Reveal!)
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RAR # 159: 10 Homeschooling Mistakes I’ve Made (so you can avoid them)
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RAR #158: Adventuring with Your Kids (yes, even now!)
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RAR #157: Why Read Aloud to Kids Who Can Read Themselves?
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RAR #156: Answering Your Q’s About Audio Books for Kids
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RAR #155: Your Questions… and Library’s Most Wanted
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RAR #154: When Your Child Doesn’t Love Reading
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RAR #153: Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition
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RAR #152: Finishing the School Year Doesn’t Need to Be a Slog
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RAR #151: It’s a Story… So What? Barb Rosenstock
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RAR #150: Water Your Bamboo—How to Focus on the Process (not the outcome) in your Homeschool
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RAR #149: Keeping Up with Advanced Readers, Colleen Kessler
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RAR #148: 3 Books I Adore, Reading Curriculum, and What We’re Reading Aloud this Spring
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RAR #147: Our Favorite Math Read-Alouds
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RAR #146: The Astonishing Impact of Louisa May Alcott
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RAR #145: The Importance of Reading at Whim and Developing Your Own Taste, Alan Jacobs
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RAR Special Edition: The Woman Who Gave us Miss Rumphius
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RAR #144: Take the 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge
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RAR #143: Kate DiCamillo is Back!
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RAR #142: What We’re Reading This Winter ❄️
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RAR #141: Why Re-Reading is Possibly the Best Reading
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RAR #140: How to Fold Poetry into Your Routine, with Sally Thomas
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RAR #139: Kindness Over Curiosity: Favorite Books Featuring Differently Abled Characters
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RAR #138: How to Choose Books for Your Kids
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RAR #137: Why Your Kids Love Graphic Novels (and which we like best!)
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RAR #136: If You Want Your Kids to Love Reading, Try This
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RAR #135: What We’re Reading This Fall (and an invitation 💌)
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RAR #134: Author Access with Sally Lloyd-Jones (author of The Jesus Storybook Bible)
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RAR #133: Books Take You Places (and some favorite seaside titles)
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RAR #132: Books for Teens, and Why YA is a Genre (not a reading level)
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RAR #131: Books About the Moon Landing
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RAR #130: Reading Aloud as an Obstinate Act of Love, with Meghan Cox Gurdon
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RAR #129: Jim Weiss: Storytime with Jim Weiss (and how to read aloud better!)
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RAR #128: Read with Us – The Secret Garden
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RAR #127: More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy: Introverting (and Extroverting) as a Mom
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RAR #126: Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (Part 2)
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RAR #125: Master Class, Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (part 1)
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RAR #124: Camille Andros on Being a Mom AND a Writer
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RAR #123: A Family Story for Easter, with Special Guest: Arnold Ytreeide
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RAR #122: Picture Book Biographies We Love
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RAR #121: Kate DiCamillo on Reading Aloud for Connection
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For Narnia and for Aslan! C.S. Lewis’s stepson, Douglas Gresham
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RAR #120: Focus on What Matters Most (psst, that’s your relationships with your kids)
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RAR #119: Delighting in Your Own Reading Life, with Anne Bogel
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Announcing the 2019 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge
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RAR #118: A’s to Your Q’s
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RAR #117: Christmas Novels to Read Aloud with the Whole Family
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RAR #116: Reading Aloud to Babies, Connection Parenting, and Getting Books into the Hands of Every Child
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Audio Book Deals Not to Miss
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RAR #115: Are you Making this Mistake When you Read Aloud With Your Kids?
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RAR #114: Writing the Book You Needed as a Child, a conversation with Susan Tan
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RAR #113: Why Reading Aloud to a Wide Range of Ages is Difficult (and How to Do It Without Losing Your Mind)
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RAR #112: How an Audio Book is Made, with audio book narrator and producer, Lyssa Browne
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RAR #111: When You’re Constantly Interrupted during Read-Alouds
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RAR #110: S.D. Smith Live
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RAR #109: How to Take Your Kids Around the World through Picture Books
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RAR #108: Favorite Picture Books for Ancient History
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RAR #107: Dr. Michael Gurian on The Minds of Girls
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RAR #106: Connection, Community, and Confidence: What your homeschool needs this fall
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RAR# 105: Favorite Early Reader Books (for kids who are learning to read)
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RAR #104: Put Those Books Face OUT!
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RAR # 103: Excellent Nonfiction Picture Books, Gail Gibbons
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RAR #102: What Kids Really Need (and Want), with Dr. Meg Meeker
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RAR #101: 3 Steps to Connecting with Your Kids this Summer
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RAR #100: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks, and over 4 Million Downloads
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RAR #99: Meet Lola Dutch (she is just too much!)
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RAR #98: Introducing Kids to Foreign Language through Reading Aloud
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RAR #97: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud with Teens
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RAR #96: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 8 – 12 Year Olds
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RAR #95: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 4-7 Year Olds
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RAR #94: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 0-3 Year Olds
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RAR #93: How to Create a Book Club Culture at Home
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RAR #92: Books Boys Love (that aren’t just books for boys)
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RAR #91: Sharing A Wrinkle in Time with Your Family
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RAR #90: Easter Basket Ideas for Young Readers
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RAR #89: Andrew Pudewa is back!
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RAR #88: Don’t Miss This Book: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
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RAR #87: Books to Celebrate Your Adopted Child, Brooke Cooney
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RAR #86: 5 Authors and Illustrators You Might Not Know About (But Probably Want To!)
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RAR #85: Reading “Messy” Books About Hard Topics with Kids
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RAR #84: Books for Kids Who Don’t Love Reading (Yet)
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RAR #83: Why Read Picture Books with Older Kids?
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RAR #82: Why Fidgeting is a Good Sign (and what brain science has to say about reading aloud), Dr. Michael Gurian
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RAR #81: Eavesdropping on the Soul, a conversation with Katherine Paterson
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RAR #80: Fantastic Gifts for Young Readers
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RAR #79: Qualities of Great Books for Kids, with Sarita Holzmann of Sonlight Curriculum
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RAR #78: Favorite Picture Book Treasuries
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RAR #77: What the Scholastic Reading Report Means for You, Andrea Pinkney
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RAR #76: How to make reading aloud the best part of the day
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RAR #75: Delightful, Simple Reading Journals for Kids
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RAR # 74: One thing you won’t regret
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RAR #73: What your kids can do while you read aloud (they’ll probably listen better than ever)
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RAR #72: How to Save a Bad Day
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RAR #71: The Research and Inspiration Behind Fascinating Historical Fiction, Caroline Starr Rose
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RAR #70: How to Find Time to Read as a Busy Mom
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RAR #69: Helen Oxenbury, Behind the Scenes with an Award-Winning Illustrator
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RAR #68: 5 Books to Read Aloud with Teens
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RAR #67: Reading for the Bigger Story, Jonathan Rogers
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RAR #66: Do Audio Books Count as Read-Alouds?
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RAR #65: How to Best Use and Support Your Local Library
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Special Edition: An Exclusive Interview with Jeanne Birdsall & N.D. Wilson
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RAR #64: Helping Resistant Readers Fall in Love with Books, Laura Martin
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RAR #63: Introducing Kids to Chesterton, Nancy Carpentier Brown
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RAR #62: Inspiring a Love of Nature Through Books, Greta Eskridge
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RAR #61: Highlights from Read-Aloud Revival Author Access
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RAR #60: Your Job is to Plant the Seed, a conversation with Sally Lloyd Jones
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RAR #59: Books to Make the Whole Family Howl, Maryrose Wood
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RAR #58: History, Heroes and Henty, with Jim Hodges
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RAR #57: How Stories Shaped an Out-of-the-Box Kid, Sally & Nathan Clarkson
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RAR Bonus Episode: Some of the Best Books by Living Authors
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How to Make Meaningful Connections with Your Kids in the Coming Year
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RAR #56: What’s at Stake and Why Stories Matter, Jonathan Auxier
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RAR #55: Best Thanksgiving Books – Cultivating a Spirit of Gratitude
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RAR #54: Sharing Experiences through Stories, James Daniels
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RAR #53: Can a Children’s Book Change the World? Linda Sue Park
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RAR Bonus Episode: Melissa Sweet on the One and Only E.B. White
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RAR #52: Bonding Through Books, Tricia Goyer
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RAR #51: The Golden Age of Children’s Books
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RAR #50: How Books Spark Easy Projects & Play
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RAR #49: Why We Should All Be Reading Aloud to Children
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The Most Important Part of Teaching Kids to Read
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RAR #48: Give Your Child the World, Raising Globally Minded Kids One Book at a Time– Jamie Martin
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RAR #47: How to Read the Classics with Kids (even if you’ve never read them before)
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RAR # 46: Assigned Versus Free Reading
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RAR #45: Our Favorite Picture Books
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RAR #44: Magic and Fear in Children’s Books, N.D. Wilson
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RAR #43: Raising Kids Who Read, Daniel Willingham
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RAR #42: Inspiring Parents in Children’s Literature: A Conversation with Greta Eskridge
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RAR # 41: Navigating Fantasy: A Guide for Christian Parents, Carolyn Leiloglou
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RAR #40 Behind the Scenes at the Read-Aloud Revival
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RAR #39: Reading to Kids with Special Needs, Cheryl Swope
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RAR #38: On Dads, Boys & the Importance of Building a Family Culture Around Books, Martin Cothran
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RAR #37: Cultivating a Reading Life, Anne Bogel
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Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Jonathan Bean, plus… What’s Coming in 2016!
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RAR #36: Christmas and Advent Read-Alouds with Elizabeth Foss
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RAR #35: Reading Aloud with Toddlers (and other littles) underfoot
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RAR #34: Reading Aloud around a Traditional School Schedule
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RAR #33: The Research Behind Reading Aloud, Dr. Joseph Price
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RAR #32: Q&A with Sarah and Kortney
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RAR #31: Reading Aloud for History, Rea Berg
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RAR #30: Reading Aloud with Boys, Cindy Rollins
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RAR #29: Getting Back in the Saddle with Reading Aloud
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RAR #27 Summer Reading: Making memories (& having fun)
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RAR #26: How Illustrations Nourish the Imagination, Zach Franzen
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RAR #25: When Kids are Whiny (and other questions you’re asking)
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RAR #24: From Picture Books to Chapter Books and Novels
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RAR #22 Read Good Books. The End. -Carole Joy Seid
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RAR #21: Finding Allies in Imagination: S.D. Smith and The Green Ember
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The Best Board Books for Toddlers
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RAR #19 Reading Aloud to Toddlers- the Why and How
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On Living a Storyformed Life, RAR #17
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RAR #16: Start a Reading Streak!
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RAR #15 Poetry Read-Alouds for Parents Who Are Intimidated by Poetry
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RAR #14: For Parents Who Don’t Like Reading Aloud
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RAR #13: Learning to Read- What to Do With Your Struggling Reader
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RAR #12: The Reading Promise
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RAR #11: Using the Library Without Losing Your Mind, Jamie Martin
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RAR #10: The Art of Choosing Books (and starting a book club!) with Heidi Scovel
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RAR #09: A University Professor’s Perspective on Reading Aloud, Dr. Catherine Pakaluk
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RAR #08: Every Book is a Mystery, Lawrence Goldstone
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RAR #07: A Lifestyle of Reading Aloud, Melissa Wiley
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RAR #06: How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, a Conversation with Ken Ludwig
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RAR #05: The Importance of Reading Aloud Imperfectly
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RAR #04: Tips and Tricks for Reading Aloud, a Conversation with Jim Weiss
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RAR #03: “Reading Aloud is Like Comfort Food”- a Conversation with Tsh Oxenreider
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RAR #02: Engaging Conversations- How to Talk to Your Kids About Books, a Conversation with Adam Andrews
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RAR #01: Reading Aloud to Older Kids, a Conversation with Andrew Pudewa
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