Hi Sarah. Hi Sarah. My name is Holly. Hi Sarah. My name is April. I'm in Melbourne, Australia.

I have a question about my name is Julie Ann and we live in India. I am wondering,

Hi Sarah. This is Crystal from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Can you give me a suggestion for an especially fabulous book?

Hey there. I'm Sarah McKenzie. This is the Read-A-Loud Revival. And in this short episode,

I'm answering one of your questions. Hi Sarah. My name is Audra and here's my dilemma. I have an

emerging reader, a third grader, who's just beginning to enjoy reading chapter books for fun.

He recently finished the Wild Robot, which he loved. I see on your book list for young boys that you

have some historical fiction titles such as The Cabin Faced West, The Sign of the Beaver and The

Matchlock Gun. I think my son would love to pick those up right now. My only reservation is he

hasn't experienced those time periods in his history studies yet. While I think he would enjoy

the stories, would I be doing him a disservice by giving them to him too early in a sense?

I'm afraid he won't have the perfect context in which to enjoy them to their fullest and that when

we get to that point in history, we'll want to reread those as read-alouds or whatever. And he'll say,

but I've read that already. I'm noticing that I've been sticking to a lot of fantasy and our family

read-alouds in order to avoid this problem. What are your thoughts? Thanks so much.

Well, my first thought is happy, happy. Congratulations. I love it when my kids make that leap

from sounding out words and being very developing readers into getting lost in chapter books

and just the independence and freedom and deliciousness of being able to pick up a chapter book

and go somewhere tucked into a corner on the sofa and their bedroom and just get lost in a book.

One of my daughters has just made that leap and it's a beautiful side to be hold. And also,

I'm a huge fan of the Wild Robot. So I also enjoy it. Okay, so great question. A couple of thoughts

for you. One is that one of the things I wish I had worried about less early on in homeschooling.

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