Podcast Episodes

RAR #21: Finding Allies in Imagination: S.D. Smith and The Green Ember

If you read nothing else to your kids this year, read The Green Ember. This is a book that will steep your family’s imagination in the good, true, an…

10 years, 11 months ago

RAR #19: Reading Aloud to Toddlers - the Why and How

We know we should start reading aloud to toddlers when they are still small, but somehow the logistics of doing just that are really difficult! 

Today…

11 years ago

RAR #17: On Living a Storyformed Life

If you only listen to one episode of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast, let this one be it. This episode is the humdinger of them all, if I do say so my…

11 years, 1 month ago

RAR #16: Start a Reading Streak!

I never do this--record a podcast episode on the fly just because I’m so excited I can’t help myself. :) But today is the last day of 2014 and I want…

11 years, 2 months ago

RAR #15: Poetry Read-Alouds for Parents Who Are Intimidated by Poetry

Caroline Starr Rose has written entire books in verse. Now don’t be intimidated. Her book, May B, has been described as part Hatchet, part Little Hou…

11 years, 3 months ago

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 …

11 years, 4 months ago

RAR #13: Learning to Read - What to Do With Your Struggling Reader

Reading aloud plays a major role in a child’s life as he or she is learning to read--especially if he or she is struggling to learn to read!

In this e…

11 years, 4 months ago

RAR #12: The Reading Promise

Alice Ozma is the author of The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. If you read nothing else this year, read this book. I mean it.

I s…

11 years, 5 months ago

RAR #11: Using the Library Without Losing Your Mind, Jamie Martin

What keeps you from making the best use of your local library? For me, it’s the likelihood of losing my sanity. :)

On this episode of the Read-Aloud R…

11 years, 5 months ago

RAR #10: The Art of Choosing Books (and starting a book club!) with Heidi Scovel

Heidi Scovel admits that she isn’t a read-aloud superstar. Reading aloud can be hard to fit in when you’re a busy mother of four! But she does know h…

11 years, 6 months ago