World Read Aloud Day with Pam Allyn

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Parenting, Mental Health, Kids & Family

5.0 • 85 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In a world of screens, chatbots, and constant digital input, what still truly matters for our children? In this episode, we go back to basics with Pam Allyn, founder of World Read Aloud Day, to explore why reading—and reading aloud—builds children’s brains, supports emotional health, and strengthens connection in ways technology cannot. A grounding reminder for parents of babies through middle schoolers: no matter how advanced AI becomes, children still grow through words, stories, and shared...

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0:00.0	Hi, guys. Welcome back to Breaklides podcast. We are fully into 2026. And I have my dear friend who mentor, she's never get away from me, Pam Allen. You guys know her from our wonderful conversations about reading. She's an author. She's an educator. She's now founder. She's a mom.
0:25.7	She's grandma. She's everything. Pam, welcome back. Thanks, Sarah. Thanks for having me back.
0:30.9	Well, we are back for a very special week. And before we dive into this, catch us up our audience. They know a little bit about what's
0:40.1	going on with you and your company and why we're talking about read out loud and importance
0:45.3	this week. Well, just catching everyone up. Yep. We coming up on the great holiday World Read Aloud
0:52.3	Day, which I founded 16 years ago with a little boy in
0:56.7	second grade had the idea to make the Read Aloud a big birthday party. That was his thought.
1:02.6	And since, you know, the last year or so, or since we last talked, my biggest focus has been
1:09.1	on early childhood reading and writing, and I just created a
1:13.5	program called Pals Town, which we're sharing widely now, which is very exciting. In fact, everyone
1:19.8	can keep an eye out. We're going to have a YouTube channel because the pals are super cute and also
1:24.9	help kids learn to read and write from a very early age.
1:28.7	And I just think kids can do a lot, you know, from a very early time, no matter how diverse
1:33.8	their learning styles are or how they grow in different ways because not every child's going
1:39.5	to do everything at the same time. We wanted to create a very welcoming, abrasive environment for literacy for our youngest children. So that's what I've been up to.
1:49.3	And offline, I was just sharing with Pam about how she's walked me through my oldest
1:54.4	literacy. And now very interesting that at my youngest, who's four, I was just sharing with her just this about the
2:02.8	levels of, I feel like, you know, the differences in like different preschool programs or daycare
2:08.2	programs. There's no universal. This is what a three year old or this is how two year olds just are.
2:14.3	And so I'm so happy you're covering that gap, Pam, but more to come on
2:17.6	that and I'll make sure I'll link everything. But this episode, I think would be a really great time
2:24.1	to pick your brain about we hear AI coming. We hear chat GPT. We hear this world of basically
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