YMB #3 Reading In Morning Time: An Interview with Brandy Vencel
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Your Morning Basket. You may remember that, early in episode 2, Pam introduced us to the "4 Rs" that make up a rich Morning Time: recitation, reading aloud, ritual, and relationship. (And if you happened to miss that one, be sure to check it out!)
In today's interview, Pam talks with Brandy Vencel of Afterthoughts about the second of those Rs, reading aloud. They discuss the subtle ways that reading aloud during Morning Time can differ from the reading we may do with our children at other times during the day.
This interview is packed with great book recommendations and insightful conversation about how reading aloud can help shape our children's imaginations, give them opportunities to grapple with big ideas, and enrich their learning by pairing content with captivating stories. So sit back and enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi, everyone, it's Pam Barnhill, and welcome to episode three of the Your Morning Basket |
| 0:24.5 | podcast. Today we're talking about another one of those three hours of morning time. We're |
| 0:29.8 | talking about reading. And this can be kind of a tricky subject because most homeschoolers |
| 0:35.9 | read to their children in some way. |
| 0:38.6 | So this begs the question, how is reading aloud during morning time, |
| 0:43.0 | different from the reading aloud that you might do at other times of day with your family? |
| 0:48.2 | To help me answer that question today, I have my good friend, Brandy Vensel. |
| 0:53.0 | Brandy is someone who definitely spends a lot of time reading to her children. |
| 0:58.3 | She follows the Amble Side online curriculum. She is a big proponent of the Charlotte Mason method of |
| 1:05.3 | education. And she is here today to help us talk about how reading aloud in morning time |
| 1:10.3 | looks a little bit different |
| 1:11.8 | from the other reading that you might be doing or how it could look a little bit different. |
| 1:16.1 | A couple of the things that we do in today's podcast that you can look forward to, we really |
| 1:21.1 | kind of talk about what Brandy's morning time looks like. And then we talk about the reading in her |
| 1:26.9 | morning time. What kinds of things |
| 1:28.9 | does she read for a family that spends a lot of their day reading. How is the reading during |
| 1:33.7 | morning time different and how does she make those choices? We also do a little comparison |
| 1:38.0 | between the reading Brandy does in her morning time and the reading I do in my morning time |
| 1:43.3 | because we're not a family that does |
| 1:45.9 | the Charlotte Mason method where we're reading all day. Morning time is actually quite a bit of our |
| 1:51.7 | daily reading. And finally we unpack a few truths, some good nuggets for you at the end. What I love about |
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