Books are not just for school lessons, but as Charlotte Mason concurred, family read-aloud time is essential to the education of a child. Listen in as Emily, Nicole, and Liz reminisce about their own experiences and share an abundance of suggestions for how to make family reading part of your family culture.
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“This habit should be begun early; so soon as the child can read at all, he should read for himself, and to himself, history, legends, fairy tales, and other suitable matter.” (1/227)
“There are few stronger family bonds than this habit of devoting an occasional hour to reading aloud, on winter evenings, at any rate…But this, of reading aloud, is not a practice to be taken up and laid down at pleasure. Let the habit drop, and it is difficult to take it up again.” (5/220)
[Read for] “the pleasure of other people from the moment when they can read fluently at all.” (5/220)
“It is not important that many books should be read; but it is important that only good books should be read.” (5/223)
A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Yearling, Marjorie Rawlings
The Little House series
Charlotte’s Web, EB White
Betsy and the Circus, Carolyn Haywood
Wild Geese Flying, Cornelia Meigs
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
