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Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Have you ever watched a play or a movie in which the actors weren't that great? They just didn't do a very good job of delivering their lines, or of communicating what was happening inside and outside their characters.

The actors didn't write the play or the movie, yet they had an important role in making it

enjoyable for the audience.

Well, in some ways, that's kind of like reading a book aloud.

The reader plays an important role in making that book enjoyable for his or her audience.

Charlotte Mason told each reader to take up a book with the certainty that the pleasure

of the whole family depends on his or her reading well. Formation

of character, page 221. In a Charlotte Mason education, the parent-teacher reads aloud often,

especially when the children are in the elementary years.

But that habit of sharing a good book together should not be neglected when the children

are older too.

And if you want your children to look forward to those read aloud times, let me give

you some tips to help you improve your part.

The author has already taken care of writing the lines, those worthy thoughts well put and

inspiring tales well told.

All you have to do is read them well.

I've been reading aloud to my children for almost 30 years now, and they seem to enjoy

it.

Either that or they're really good actors.

No, they enjoy it.

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