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Hello, hello, welcome to episode 160. We're doing something a little different today. Recently we did a live event for Readallowed Revival premium members about what will be up to in premium.

Now hopefully you know that RIR premium is our online community where we help your kids fall in love with books and we help you fall in love with homeschooling.

In premium, we provide resources for mamas, usually master classes and circle with Sarah sessions. Those are both professional development for the homeschooling parent, as well as seasonal mama book clubs.

And then we also have resources for kids, primarily our family book club, which you can use with kids of all ages, all together as a family, and also wow writers on writing workshops that breathe life into your child's writing.

Our fall lineup is really wonderful and the RIR team hopped on a live zoom with our members to show them our lineup for September, October and November.

We thought you'd enjoy this too, if for nothing else to get some top notch book recommendations, but also so that you know what you can look forward to in our AR premium these next few months.

I'm going to air the audio segment from that live fall reveal here in today's show. But first we've got an excellent question from podcast listener, Corey.

Hi Sarah, I'm wondering if you can answer a question for me as I'm planning through things for my nine year old this year.

I'm thinking through reading and trying to keep a balance between encouraging him to read good books, but also not wanting to kill his love of reading.

He loves reading Calvin and Hobbes and graphic novels and I'm looking through some curriculum I'm going to be using for writing and it has some great literature kind of connected with it.

And yet I don't want to just assign him a bunch of books to read all year because I'm afraid that's going to kill it for him while he can read books like the line that which in the wardrobe without a co-op we won't be in that co-op this year.

I don't want to I don't want to kill it for him and I'm just wondering if you can speak to the balance of assigning great books to your kids for reading for school and yet still giving them the opportunity to read their own things and not killing it by assigning things he doesn't want to read.

Thanks so much for your input and all you do on read aloud revival.

Yeah, this is an excellent question, Corey, and I think it's worth considering because we really do want our kids to love reading more each time they put down a book.

Not less. So many of us had experiences as kids where the books we were assigned for school didn't feed our love of reading. They did the opposite, right?

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