Podcast Episodes

RAR #173: What Happens in Your Child’s Brain when You Read Aloud

Ready to dive into a little brain science? Today, we’re discovering what happens in your child’s brain when you read aloud.

This is probably not a sur…

5 years ago

RAR #172: Helping Our Developing Readers Fall in Love with Books

Learning to read can be hard. And when our kids are still learning to read fluently and well, helping them fall in love with books can feel impossibl…

5 years, 1 month ago

RAR #171: How to Introduce Your Kids to Shakespeare

The Bard. He can be a little intimidating, right? If you’ve ever wondered how to introduce your kids to Shakespeare, you are in a for a treat with th…

5 years, 1 month ago

RAR #170: How to Read a Wordless Book

Do you ever feel lost when it comes to how to read a wordless book?

I’m convinced that some of the very best picture books being published today are w…

5 years, 2 months ago

RAR #169: The Read-Aloud Challenge

Here at RAR, we can’t think of a better way to kick off a new year than to do it with books. 

That’s why we kick off every January with a challenge fo…

5 years, 2 months ago

RAR #168: Special Edition, Christmas Stories

Welcome to a very special Christmas episode of Read-Aloud Revival, featuring three audio Christmas stories from one of our very favorite storytellers…

5 years, 3 months ago

RAR #167: Christmas with Tomie dePaola and Winter at RAR

Do you feel it in the air? The seasons are a-changing…and it’s just about the best time of year for reading with a cup of cocoa, next to a crackling …

5 years, 3 months ago

RAR #166: What’s the deal with open-ended questions?

In today’s episode, we’re talking about how to talk with your kids about books. Specifically, we’re talking about open-ended questions, which you’ve …

5 years, 4 months ago

RAR #165: When Reading Starts to Feel Like School

It happens to all of us at one point or another: reading shifts in our kids’ lives from being principally about joy and delight into something that n…

5 years, 4 months ago

RAR # 164: Our Favorite Way to Read Through History (and a new FREE resource)

In this very special episode of the podcast, the RAR team is discussing our favorite way to study history: through picture book biographies.

We’re als…

5 years, 5 months ago