Read Aloud Handbook<\/a>,”\u00a0 plus had learned about read
\naloud benefits from the aforementioned seminars and books, but I couldn’t
\nbegin to anticipate the huge impact those early years of reading aloud would
\nhave on those children and on our future children. We grew to love reading
\naloud so much that quite literally, I have read aloud at least a couple of
\nhours every day for my first twenty-five years of parenting!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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What about those benefits? Well, all of my children were eager to learn to
\nread. They had such warm feelings of being read to that they could not wait
\nto learn to read themselves. They have all become strong readers. They all
\nlove learning as a result of that early reading. For my dyslexic children
\nand my late readers, reading aloud became invaluable. It built up their
\nbackground of experience and their listening comprehension dramatically.
\nThen when each one did learn to read, he or she brought that background of
\nexperience and auditory comprehension with them into their reading
\nexperiences, and they had amazing comprehension immediately upon learning to
\n“read” (decode words).<\/p>\n
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Educational benefits aside, reading aloud has given me the warmest, fondest
\nmemories than a mother could ever ask for. There’s a place in my heart, a
\nlittle corner of my heart, called the read aloud corner. It is warm. It is
\nfilled with good memories. Of snuggling with mama on the couch. Of rocking
\nwith mommy with books in her big chair. Of squeezing four,\u00a0 five, or six of
\nus in mommy and daddy’s bed with a stack of books two feet tall. Isn’t it
\namazing to think of the benefits that homeschooling makes available to us?<\/p>\n
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Thirty-one years ago with a one-year-old toddler in tow, my husband and I began homeschooling my younger sister who was in eighth grade at the time. It was definitely homeschooling out of necessity due to some problems that she was having at school with bullying and meanness because of her moderately mentally handicapped condition. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,628,634],"tags":[294,188],"yoast_head":"\n
Homeschool Benefit #5: Reading Aloud Together - Character Ink<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n