The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud
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The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud
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#2My parents read outloud to me and my brother a lot as we were growing up. And now, this is something I really like doing with people I date? I have a couple of books of short stories that I'm slowing working through. Short stories are vital because my girlfriends zonk a handful of pages in, but they still have really liked it.
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#3I often read articles for girlfriends. Especially interesting or funny ones.
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#4I read aloud to our children every night for about 10 years. They are both phenomenal readers and actors. I read to them because it gave me extra snuggle time.
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#5It's been long established that reading aloud to your children is one of the best ways to advance their early learning.
(https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2267171)
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#6I often read articles for girlfriends. Especially interesting or funny ones.
Nice. For dates we'd go to a library or book store, take random books and dramatically read the first, middle, and last lines. And speculate on the rest and/or make fun of it.
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#7For material that I struggle understanding upon first read (e.g. academic papers), I often find myself pacing in circles in my room/backyard, reading it aloud, slowly, with proper intonation, as if I was lecturing. It helps a lot, although my neighbors probably think I'm crazy.
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#8My wife and I had a long-distance courtship. We used to read novels to each other over Skype. It was a nice change from chatting when we'd run out of things to say, and a fun way to share favourite stories. We didn't ever try to read anything really ambitious, but that was part of what made it enjoyable— even just kids' chapter books, stuff like Gordon Korman, Louis Sachar, Sid Fleischman.
We don't read to each other as much these days (though sometimes in the car), but we definitely do read to the kids.
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#9It's been long established that reading aloud to your children is one of the best ways to advance their early learning. ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2267171 )
The (controversial) economist Steven D. Levitt pointed out that there was no correlation between parents reading to children and reading test scores.[1]
I don't know which studies are accurate. I just remember that story because the findings were counter-intuitive.
[1] "Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which tracks the progress of more than 20,000 American schoolchildren from kindergarten through the fifth grade." -- https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005...
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#10Interesting, reading aloud has been a tradition inside every cigar factory in Cuba since the 19th century.
http://mashable.com/2016/11/19/cigar-factory-lectors/#l37Rcj...