Episode 38: The Joy, Art, and Educational Benefits of Read-Alouds

Ever wonder which educational activity will bring you and your family the most enduring and impactful results? Reading aloud to our children can bless them beyond measure, now and throughout their lives. Today’s guest, Maureen Wittmann, has spoken and written extensively on the topic of The Power of Read-Alouds!

Find Maureen here:
https://homeschoolconnections.com/about-homeschool-connections/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maureenwittmann/
Maureen’s Recommended Read-Aloud Resources: https://homeschoolconnectionsonline.blogspot.com/2020/04/best-homeschool-reading-lists.html 

Maureen's book For the Love of Literature, https://catalog.beholdpublications.com/product/love-of-literature/

Authors and books mentioned during this episode:

• Sandra Boynton
• If I Could Build a Car by Chris Van Dusen 
• If I Could Build a House by Chris Van Dusen 
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
• Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
• Hobbit and LOTR by JRR Tolkien
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel Brill
• Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
• E. Nesbit
• George McDonald
• Madeline
• A. A. Milne
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Readers Digest article on empathy and fiction reading, https://www.rd.com/article/reading-fiction-empathy/ 

Short Feature: Amy Cattapan's Books & Blessings

Today's Topic: 8 Notes to a Nobody, by Cynthia T. Toney
Find Amy here:
https://www.ajcattapan.com/

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