You're listening to the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast.

I'm your host Sarah McKenzie, homeschooling Mama of 6 and author of The Read-A-Loud Family

and Teaching from Rest.

As parents were overwhelmed with a lot to do, it feels like every child needs something

different.

The good news is you are the best person to help your kids learn and grow, and home is

the best place to fall in love with books.

This podcast has been downloaded 7 million times in over 160 countries, so if you want

to nurture warm relationships while also raising kids who love to read your in-good company,

we'll help your kids fall in love with books and we'll help you fall in love with homeschooling.

Let's get started.

Lately we've been talking about sharing a story a day with our kids.

We can't read a novel a day, of course, so we're talking about reading picture books,

and we don't mean just reading two little kids.

In fact, if you've been around here very long at all, you know that at The Read-A-Loud Revival,

we are huge believers in reading picture books with older kids.

One not super well-known fact is that language sophistication, you know, syntax, diction,

the complexity of sentence structure, it actually goes down when you move from picture books

to novels.

And the reason for this is very simple, publishers expect that adults are reading picture books

out loud to kids, so there's no such thing as a reading level for a picture book.

But once we get into novels, the authors and publishers take care to use words that will

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