Read Aloud Time

When your child is an advanced reader, it can be tempting to not read aloud to them.  This is especially true as they become more and more independant in their school work.  Megan is a very good reader.  In fact, she is a complete bookworm much of the time.  She wants to read her history herself.  She jumps into harder and harder books on her own.

I felt like the special time of reading to my girl was disappearing.  When Megan received The Little Princess for Christmas from her sister, I begged Meg to let me read it to her. We have made it to chapter  seven.

When school began yesterday, I wanted to read The Little Princess as a storytime book.  Megan didn't want to because she liked our reading the story of Sarah Crewe at bedtime.  I picked out a different book from our little library, The Borrowers Aloft. We are on chapter four. 

These are the priceless moments that make homeschooling so special.  I go through some busy periods where reading to my youngest doesn't happen as I would like. I have literally cut some of the stuff we have been doing and shortened other lessons so that we can have our read aloud time together.  I feel that reading aloud is more important than many subjects.

My Meggy is absorbing our read aloud time like a sponge.  Her imagination is growing as I catch her playing out scenes from the books we read in her play.  Yes! Book scenes running through her head is so much more rewarding than seeing her parked in front of the television!