What do you do if you notice that your child isn't finishing books?

How can you get your kids to widen their reading taste outside of a single genre?

How can you describe what you do for literature on a high school transcript when you take a more relaxed

read-aloud revival approach to the subject?

And what can you do to help boost your child's emotional intelligence and reading comprehension?

We're talking about it all right here and right now at the Read-aloud revival.

You've got episode

221 of the Read-aloud revival the show that helps your kids fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.

I'm your host Sarah McKenzie. Today, I want to jump right into things.

We've gotten so many great questions from you listeners. Thank you. Thank you for sending them.

Today, I want to answer a handful. So let's begin with a question from Laura.

Hi Sarah. My name is Laura McKinnon and I'm from Tallahassee, Florida.

I'm a mom of four kids ranging in age from seven years old to eight months old.

And we just started our third year of homeschool and so far it's been such a wonderful experience for the entire family.

I'm so grateful to this podcast for its encouragement and also for its useful advice. Here's my question.

My oldest, LC, is in second grade and she loves to read.

She reads all the time both independently and to her siblings. And she also loves to be read too, which we do daily.

So recently I've noticed when she's reading independently that she almost never reads a book from start to finish.

She likes to sift through the pages and begin reading when something catches her eye.

Sometimes it's a picture and sometimes it's the title of a chapter that catches her eye.

And then she'll read for a while and then thumb through the pages again and start reading from a completely different part of the book.

She's great at narration, but obviously can't narrate what she hasn't read.

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