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Read Alouds: What Nobody Explains To Parents (+ Unlocking The Question: Why Is It Important To Read To Your Child After Age Eight?)
This episode is all about read alouds and unlocking why oral reading is important for your child. Hint: Because their ears are years ahead. By the end of this episode, you’ll:
Know why picking up books for read alouds does more for your child than another thirty minutes of sounding out words.
Explain why your child's listening brain is years ahead of their reading brain, and exactly how long that head start lasts
Use the stop, swap, and go method to hand your child a new word in about six seconds, without turning the story into a vocabulary quiz
Pick the right book for a read aloud,
Run the…
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