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Read-Aloud Revival ® — 307 episodes
Best of RAR: The Joy of Shakespeare
RAR #281: Homeschooling High School with Rachel Kovac
RAR #280: Books Take Us Places
Best of RAR: Becoming Your Child’s Mentor
RAR #279: Baptizing the Imagination with Malcolm Guite
Best of RAR: When Your Developing Reader Resists Reading
RAR #278: How to Actually Connect with Our Kids, Dr. Matthew Breuninger
Best of RAR: How a “Best Moments” List Can Help You Love Your Homeschool featuring Jon Acuff
RAR #277: Inspiring Heroic Virtue in Our Kids
Best of RAR: Why Read Aloud to Kids Who Can Read Themselves
RAR #276: Learning to Ask Good Questions (Audrey’s Back!)
RAR #275: Could We Have Tranquility by Tuesday? Laura Vanderkam
Best of RAR: Jolabokaflod
RAR #274: Behind the Scenes of One of My Favorite Christmas Picture Books
[Bonus] God Is Not Disappointed In You
Best of RAR: Education is for Love
RAR #273: Imagining the Childhood of C.S. Lewis, with Judith McQuoid
RAR #272: Giving Flora Her Voice with Astrid Sheckels
Best of RAR: What Do We Mean by Peace?
Best of RAR: 5 Habits of Happy Homeschoolers
RAR #271: An Inside Look at Writing & Illustrating a Picture Book with Katie Wray Schon
RAR #270: The Whys and Hows of Quiet Reading Time
RAR #269 – A Vacation for Your Homeschooling Heart
RAR #268 Advice to Young (And Young at Heart) Creatives
RAR #267: A Conversation About Belovedness with Emily Wilson Hussem
RAR #266 How to Do Shakespeare (and Actually Enjoy It)
RAR #265 Shakespeare Is Not a School Subject
RAR #264: How to Read Classics (and Actually Enjoy Them)
RAR #263: Growing in Confidence as a Homeschool Mama with the RAR Team
RAR #262: Every Question Is a Doorway, with Jonathan Auxier
RAR #261: Why the Modern Myths of Tolkien & Lewis Feel So True
RAR #260: The Woman Behind Narnia’s Iconic Illustrations
Best of RAR: How Read-Alouds Inspired the Wingfeather Saga with Andrew Peterson
RAR #259: Books Take You Places
Best of RAR: Reading for Fun is More Important than You Think
RAR #258: How Picture Book Illustrations Tell Half the Story with Charles Santoso
RAR #257: You Can Be Refreshed by Your Reading Life
RAR #256: My New Favorite Book for the Whole Family
Best of RAR: Jolabokaflod
RAR #254: What’s So Great About A Christmas Carol?
BONUS: The Power of What You’re Already Doing (Sneak Peek Inside RAR Premium)
RAR #253: How We Choose Books to Recommend at RAR
RAR #252: The Making of Because Barbara
RAR #251: Fostering Wonder and Creativity, with S.D. Smith and Carolyn Leiloglou
RAR #250: Relaxed, Bookish, and Ordinary
RAR #249: How a “Best Moments” List can Help You Love Your Homeschool featuring Jon Acuff
RAR #248: Nurturing Creative Dreams (Your Child’s and Your Own)
RAR #247: Why We Love Historical Fiction, Anna Rose Johnson
RAR #246: Sally Clarkson’s Advice to Her Younger Self
RAR #245 How to Read a Fairy Tale
RAR #244: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can’t, Erin Loechner
RAR #243: Why Read Fairy Tales?
RAR #242: An Art Gallery for the Lap, with Scott Gustafson
Bonus: 3 Steps to a Fairy Tale Summer
RAR #241: How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, with Ken Ludwig
Top 10 in the First 10 Years!
RAR #240: Max Lucado: Nourishing a Child’s Heart with Books
Best of RAR: How to Make Time for Your Own Reading
RAR #239: Practicing the Habits of a Lifelong Reader
Best of RAR: The Point is the Doing (Not Getting it Done)
RAR #238: How Books Make Us Better, Happier Moms
Best of RAR: What to Do When Reading Becomes a Slog
RAR #237: How Fairy Tales Re-Enchant Us
Best of RAR: No More Bookish Overwhelm
Best of RAR: Your New Favorite Tradition - Jolabokaflod
RAR #235: How to Give Feedback on Your Child’s Creative Writing (Even If You Aren’t a Writer!)
RAR #234: Encouraging Creativity: Insights and Inspiration from Author Millie Florence
Best of RAR: Is My Child Dyslexic?
RAR #233: Audrey is Back, and She’s Answering Your Questions!
RAR #232: How to Know If You’re Doing Enough
RAR #231: Homeschooling with Babies and Toddlers
RAR #230: Helping Your Differently Wired Kids Fall in Love with Reading
RAR #229: How a 25¢ Spiral Notebook Can Change Your Homeschool
RAR #228: Reading for Fun is More Important Than You Think
Best of RAR: Penderwicks Fans Rejoice!
Hey Sarah! When (and how) do I…teach writing, take my kids to the library, require a teen to read?
Anxious About Rest: How to Let Go of Summer Break Pressure
RAR #226: Hey Sarah! Late-Night Readers, Not Assigning Books and is it OK to Read SO MANY Books?
Best of RAR: 5 MORE Homeschool Mistakes I’ve Made (they just keep comin’)
Best of RAR: 5 Homeschooling Mistakes I've Made (so you can avoid them)
RAR #225: It's Just Data (What your data is REALLY telling you about your homeschool)
RAR #224: Cozy Couch Nature Study
(Fixed!) Bonus: Join us for an E.B. White Spring
RAR #223: The Books That Won (And a Few That Should Have)
RAR #222: Read Books, Go Outside: Simple Science for Homeschooling Families
RAR #221: What to Do When your Child Doesn’t Finish Books…and Other Questions You’re Asking
RAR #220: Essentialism for Homeschoolers
RAR #219: Yes, You Should Read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter
Bonus: Let's Fall in Love with our Homeschooling Lives
RAR #218: Jolabokaflod: How to Have a Christmas Book Flood
RAR #217: It’s Time to Put Some Pinecones Back
RAR #216: How to Teach from Rest
RAR #215: Whimsy and the Power of Childhood Reading
RAR #214: Am I Doing Enough?
RAR #213: Sweep: A Story You Don’t Want to Miss
RAR #212: The 10 Best Questions We Ever Got, Andrew Pudewa & Sarah Mackenzie
RAR #211: How We Made A Little More Beautiful: The Story of a Garden
Pre-orders are Open!
RAR#210: Introducing Waxwing Books: Our Brand New Publishing House
RAR #00: Welcome to the Read-Aloud Revival
RAR Special Edition Revisited: Robert McCloskey Makes Way
RAR Special Edition Revisited: The Woman Who Gave us Miss Rumphius
RAR#209: What Worked? What Didn’t? Looking Back on Homeschooling with my 20-Year-Old Daughter
RAR #208: Which Direction Should You Go? Determining Your Summer Compass
RAR #207: How to Fall Back in Love with Reading this Summer
RAR#206: A Simple, Low-Pressure Approach to Teach Shakespeare
RAR #205: Help! My Child Doesn’t Like Reading
RAR #204: How Do You Organize Books in Your Home Library?
RAR #203: What Do Your Kids Read for Fun in High School?
RAR #202: For Kids Who Don’t Like Sad Stories
RAR #201: The Surprising Value of Reading Fewer Books
RAR #200: Name What Matters in Your Homeschool This Spring
RAR # 199: The Books that Won, and Few That Should Have (2022 Youth Media Awards)
RAR #198: Which Curriculum Should I Use? (and other questions with life-changing answers)
RAR #197: Hey Mamas, Reading for Pleasure is Part of the Job!
RAR #196: Teaching Literature Without Curriculum
RAR #195: “So Many Books, So Little Time!” How to Quell Overwhelm in Our Reading Lives
Blessings Pressed Down, Shaken Together
RAR #193: A Relaxed, Read-Aloud Christmas
RAR #192: Help! My Kids Hate Narration
RAR #191: Helping your ADHD or Dyslexic Child Love Reading
RAR #190: Sarah’s Favorite Stories About Christian Saints and Heroes
RAR #189: What if my kids always pick screens over books?
RAR #188: My kids aren’t picking good books at the library. What do I do?
RAR #187: How to find books that engage both an 8- and a 4-year-old
RAR #186: Should my kids’ reading correlate with their history studies?
RAR #185: Should I Use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons?
RAR #184: What to do if your developing reader skips words when reading
RAR #183: Should We Avoid Abridged or Adapted Versions of the Classics?
RAR #182: 5 Books I want you to know about, and answers to your questions about reading a book a day
RAR #181: Practical Tips for Reading a Book a Day
RAR #180: Reading A Book a Day with Older Kids and Teens
RAR #179: Do You See What I See? How to Look Closely at a Picture Book
RAR #178: Why Read a Book a Day? (Yep, You Can!)
RAR Special Edition: Robert McCloskey Makes Way
RAR #177: Teach Your Kids to Think Like a Scientist (with Books You Already Have)
RAR #176: Homeschooling with Dyslexia
RAR #175: Is My Child Dyslexic?
RAR #174: The Books that Won (and a few that Should Have!)
RAR #173: What Happens in Your Child’s Brain when You Read Aloud
RAR #172: Helping Our Developing Readers Fall in Love with Books
RAR #171: How to Introduce Your Kids to Shakespeare
RAR #170: How to Read a Wordless Book
RAR #169: The Read-Aloud Challenge
RAR #168: Special Edition, Christmas Stories
RAR #167: Christmas with Tomie dePaola and Winter at RAR
RAR #166: What’s the deal with open-ended questions?
RAR #165: When Reading Starts to Feel Like School
RAR # 164: Our Favorite Way to Read Through History (and a new FREE resource)
RAR #163: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, Alan Jacobs
RAR #162: Why and How Reading Aloud Will Change Your Children’s Lives Forever (Mem Fox)
RAR #161: Becoming Your Child’s Mentor and Awaking Wonder, Sally Clarkson
RAR #160: Not Killing the Love of Reading
RAR # 159: 10 Homeschooling Mistakes I’ve Made (so you can avoid them)
RAR #158: Adventuring with Your Kids (yes, even now!)
RAR #157: Why Read Aloud to Kids Who Can Read Themselves?
RAR #156: Answering Your Q’s About Audio Books for Kids
RAR #155: Your Questions… and Library’s Most Wanted
RAR #154: When Your Child Doesn’t Love Reading
RAR #153: Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition
RAR #152: Finishing the School Year Doesn’t Need to Be a Slog
RAR #151: It’s a Story… So What? Barb Rosenstock
RAR #150: Water Your Bamboo—How to Focus on the Process (not the outcome) in Your Homeschool
RAR #149: Keeping Up with Advanced Readers, Colleen Kessler
RAR #148: 3 Books I Adore, Reading Curriculum, and What We’re Reading Aloud This Spring
RAR #147: Our Favorite Math Read-Alouds
RAR #146: The Astonishing Impact of Louisa May Alcott
RAR #145: The Importance of Reading at Whim and Developing Your Own Taste, Alan Jacobs
RAR Special Edition: The Woman Who Gave us Miss Rumphius
RAR #143: Kate DiCamillo is Back!
RAR #141: Why Re-Reading is Possibly the Best Reading
RAR #140: How to Fold Poetry into Your Routine, with Sally Thomas
RAR #139: Kindness Over Curiosity: Favorite Books Featuring Differently Abled Characters
RAR #138: How to Choose Books for Your Kids
RAR #137: Why Your Kids Love Graphic Novels (and which we like best!)
RAR #136: If You Want Your Kids to Love Reading, Try This
RAR #134: Author Access with Sally Lloyd-Jones (author of The Jesus Storybook Bible)
RAR #133: Books Take You Places (and some favorite seaside titles)
RAR #132: Books for Teens, and Why YA is a Genre (not a reading level)
RAR #131: Books About the Moon Landing
RAR #130: Reading Aloud as an Obstinate Act of Love, with Meghan Cox Gurdon
RAR #129: Jim Weiss: Storytime with Jim Weiss (and how to read aloud better!)
RAR #127: More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy: Introverting (and Extroverting) as a Mom
RAR #126: Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (Part 2)
RAR #125: Master Class, Creating a Book Club Culture at Home (part 1)
RAR #124: Camille Andros on Being a Mom AND a Writer
RAR #123: A Family Story for Easter, with Special Guest: Arnold Ytreeide
RAR #121: Kate DiCamillo on Reading Aloud for Connection
For Narnia and for Aslan! C.S. Lewis’s stepson, Douglas Gresham
RAR #120: Focus on What Matters Most (psst, that’s your relationships with your kids)
Read with us: Snowflake Bentley
RAR #119: Delighting in Your Own Reading Life, with Anne Bogel
RAR #118: A’s to Your Q’s
RAR #117: Christmas Novels to Read Aloud with the Whole Family
RAR #116: Reading Aloud to Babies, Connection Parenting, and Getting Books into the Hands of Every Child
RAR #115: Are you Making this Mistake When you Read Aloud With Your Kids?
RAR #114: Writing the Book You Needed as a Child, a conversation with Susan Tan
RAR #113: Why Reading Aloud to a Wide Range of Ages is Difficult (and How to Do It Without Losing Your Mind)
RAR #112: How an Audio Book is Made, with audio book narrator and producer, Lyssa Browne
RAR #111: When You’re Constantly Interrupted During Read-Alouds
RAR #110: S.D. Smith Live
RAR #109: How to Take Your Kids Around the World through Picture Books
RAR #108: Favorite Picture Books for Ancient History
RAR #107: Dr. Michael Gurian on The Minds of Girls
RAR #106: Connection, Community, and Confidence: What your homeschool needs this fall
RAR# 105: Favorite Early Reader Books (for kids who are learning to read)
RAR #104: Put Those Books Face OUT!
RAR #103: Excellent Nonfiction Picture Books, Gail Gibbons
RAR #102: What Kids Really Need (and Want), with Dr. Meg Meeker
RAR #100: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks, and over 4 Million Downloads
RAR #99: Meet Lola Dutch (she is just too much!)
RAR #98: Introducing Kids to Foreign Language through Reading Aloud
RAR #97: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud with Teens
RAR #96: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 8 – 12 Year Olds
RAR #95: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 4-7 Year Olds
RAR #94: The Lowdown on Reading Aloud to 0-3 Year Olds
RAR #93: How to Create a Book Club Culture at Home
RAR #92: Books Boys Love (that aren’t just books for boys)
RAR #90: Easter Basket Ideas for Young Readers
RAR #89: Andrew Pudewa is back!
RAR #88: Don’t Miss This Book: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
RAR #87: Books to Celebrate Your Adopted Child, Brooke Cooney
RAR #86: 5 Authors and Illustrators You Might Not Know About (But Probably Want To!)
RAR #85: Reading “Messy” Books About Hard Topics with Kids
RAR #84: Books for Kids Who Don’t Love Reading (Yet)
RAR #83: Why Read Picture Books with Older Kids?
RAR #82: Why Fidgeting is a Good Sign (and what brain science has to say about reading aloud), Dr. Michael Gurian
RAR #81: Eavesdropping on the Soul, a conversation with Katherine Paterson
RAR #80: Fantastic Gifts for Young Readers
RAR #79: Qualities of Great Books for Kids, with Sarita Holzmann of Sonlight Curriculum
RAR #78: Favorite Picture Book Treasuries
RAR #77: What the Scholastic Reading Report Means for You, Andrea Pinkney
RAR #76: How to make reading aloud the best part of the day
RAR #75: Delightful, Simple Reading Journals for Kids
RAR # 74: One thing you won’t regret
RAR #73: What your kids can do while you read aloud (they’ll probably listen better than ever)
RAR #72: How to Save a Bad Day
RAR #71: The Research and Inspiration Behind Fascinating Historical Fiction, Caroline Starr Rose
RAR #70: How to Find Time to Read as a Busy Mom
RAR #69: Helen Oxenbury, Behind the Scenes with an Award-Winning Illustrator
RAR #68: 5 Books to Read Aloud with Teens
RAR #67: Reading for the Bigger Story, Jonathan Rogers
RAR #66: Do Audio Books Count as Read-Alouds?
RAR #65: How to Best Use and Support Your Local Library
Special Edition: An Exclusive Interview with Jeanne Birdsall & N.D. Wilson
RAR #64: Helping Resistant Readers Fall in Love with Books, Laura Martin
RAR #63: Introducing Kids to Chesterton, Nancy Carpentier Brown
RAR #62: Inspiring a Love of Nature Through Books, Greta Eskridge
RAR #61: Highlights from Read-Aloud Revival Author Access
RAR #60: Your Job is to Plant the Seed, a conversation with Sally Lloyd Jones
RAR #59: Books to Make the Whole Family Howl, Maryrose Wood
RAR #58: History, Heroes and Henty, with Jim Hodges
RAR #57: How Stories Shaped an Out-of-the-Box Kid, Sally & Nathan Clarkson
RAR Bonus Episode: Some of the Best Books by Living Authors
How to Make Meaningful Connections with Your Kids in the Coming Year
RAR #56: What’s at Stake and Why Stories Matter, Jonathan Auxier
RAR #55: Best Thanksgiving Books – Cultivating a Spirit of Gratitude
RAR #54: Sharing Experiences through Stories, James Daniels
RAR #53: Can a Children’s Book Change the World? with Linda Sue Park
RAR Bonus Episode: Melissa Sweet on the One and Only E.B. White
RAR #52: Bonding Through Books, Tricia Goyer
RAR #51: The Golden Age of Children’s Books
RAR #50: How Books Spark Easy Projects & Play
RAR #49: Why We Should All Be Reading Aloud to Children
The Most Important Part of Teaching Kids to Read
RAR #48: Give Your Child the World, Raising Globally Minded Kids One Book at a Time– Jamie Martin
RAR #47: How to Read the Classics with Kids (even if you’ve never read them before)
RAR #46: Assigned Versus Free Reading
RAR #45: Our Favorite Picture Books
RAR #44: Magic and Fear in Children’s Books, N.D. Wilson
RAR #43: Raising Kids Who Read, Daniel Willingham
RAR #42: Inspiring Parents in Children’s Literature: A Conversation with Greta Eskridge
RAR # 41: Navigating Fantasy: A Guide for Christian Parents, Carolyn Leiloglou
RAR #40: Behind the Scenes at the Read-Aloud Revival
RAR #39: Reading to Kids with Special Needs, Cheryl Swope
RAR #37: Cultivating a Reading Life, Anne Bogel
RAR #36: Christmas and Advent Read-Alouds with Elizabeth Foss
RAR #35: Reading Aloud with Toddlers (and other littles) underfoot
RAR #34: Reading Aloud Around a Traditional School Schedule
RAR #33: The Research Behind Reading Aloud, Dr. Joseph Price
RAR #32: Q&A with Sarah and Kortney
RAR #31: Reading Aloud for History, Rea Berg
RAR #29: Getting Back in the Saddle with Reading Aloud
RAR #27: Summer Reading: Making memories (& having fun)
RAR #26: How Illustrations Nourish the Imagination, Zach Franzen
RAR #25: When Kids are Whiny (and other questions you’re asking)
RAR #24: From Picture Books to Chapter Books and Novels
RAR #22: Read Good Books. The End. -Carole Joy Seid
RAR #21: Finding Allies in Imagination: S.D. Smith and The Green Ember
RAR #19: Reading Aloud to Toddlers - the Why and How
RAR #17: On Living a Storyformed Life
RAR #16: Start a Reading Streak!
RAR #15: Poetry Read-Alouds for Parents Who Are Intimidated by Poetry
RAR #14: For Parents Who Don’t Like Reading Aloud
RAR #13: Learning to Read - What to Do With Your Struggling Reader
RAR #12: The Reading Promise
RAR #11: Using the Library Without Losing Your Mind, Jamie Martin
RAR #10: The Art of Choosing Books (and starting a book club!) with Heidi Scovel
RAR #09: A University Professor’s Perspective on Reading Aloud, Dr. Catherine Pakaluk
RAR #08: Every Book is a Mystery, Lawrence Goldstone
RAR #07: A Lifestyle of Reading Aloud, Melissa Wiley
RAR #06: Why Shakespeare Matters, a Conversation with Ken Ludwig
RAR #05: The Importance of Reading Aloud Imperfectly with Jim Weiss
RAR #04: Tips and Tricks for Reading Aloud, a Conversation with Jim Weiss
RAR #03: “Reading Aloud is Like Comfort Food”- a Conversation with Tsh Oxenreider
RAR #02: Engaging Conversations with Adam Andrews
RAR #01: Reading Aloud to Older Kids, a Conversation with Andrew Pudewa