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My Great Homeschool Sessions 2022

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My Favorite Books of 2021

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Blessings Pressed Down, Shaken Together

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RAR #193: A Relaxed, Read-Aloud Christmas

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Christmas School 2021 is here!

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RAR #192: Help! My Kids Hate Narration

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RAR #191: Helping your ADHD or Dyslexic Child Love Reading

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RAR #190: Sarah’s Favorite Stories About Christian Saints and Heroes

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RAR #189: What if my kids always pick screens over books? 

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5 Middle-Grade Novels You Want to Know About

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RAR #188: My kids aren’t picking good books at the library. What do I do?

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RAR #187: How to find books that engage both an 8- and a 4-year-old

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RAR #186: Should my kids’ reading correlate with their history studies?

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RAR #185: Should I Use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons?

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RAR #184: What to do if your developing reader skips words when reading

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RAR #183: Should We Avoid Abridged or Adapted Versions of the Classics?

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RAR #182: 5 Books I want you to know about, and answers to your questions about reading a book a day

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What’s coming this fall in RAR Premium

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RAR #181: Practical Tips for Reading a Book a Day

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RAR #180: Reading A Book a Day with Older Kids and Teens

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RAR #179: Do You See What I See? How to Look Closely at a Picture Book

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RAR#178: Why read a book a Day? (Yep, You Can!)

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A Booklist for Mama

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RAR Special Edition: Robert McCloskey Makes Way

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RAR #177: Teach Your Kids to Think Like a Scientist (with Books You Already Have)

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RAR #176: Homeschooling with Dyslexia

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RAR #175: Is My Child Dyslexic?

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RAR #174: The Books that Won (and a few that Should Have!)

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RAR #173: What Happens in Your Child’s Brain when You Read Aloud

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RAR #172: Helping Our Developing Readers Fall in Love with Books

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RAR #171: How to Introduce Your Kids to Shakespeare

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Real Mom Tour: A Virtual Night In

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RAR #170: How to Read a Wordless Book

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Introduce your kids to shakespeare

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RAR #169: The Read-Aloud Challenge

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Make Reading Aloud a Habit with our Free 2021 Habit Tracker

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RAR #168: Special Edition, Christmas Stories

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RAR #167 Christmas with Tomie dePaola and Winter at RAR

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RAR #166: What’s the deal with open-ended questions?

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RAR #165: When reading starts to feel like school

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RAR # 164: Our Favorite Way to Read through History (and a new FREE resource)

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RAR #163: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, Alan Jacobs

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RAR #162: Why and How Reading Aloud Will Change Your Children’s Lives Forever (Mem Fox)

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RAR #161: Becoming Your Child’s Mentor and Awaking Wonder, Sally Clarkson

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RAR #160: Not Killing the Love of Reading (and the Fall Reveal!)

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RAR # 159: 10 Homeschooling Mistakes I’ve Made (so you can avoid them)

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RAR #158: Adventuring with Your Kids (yes, even now!)

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RAR #157: Why Read Aloud to Kids Who Can Read Themselves?

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RAR #156: Answering Your Q’s About Audio Books for Kids

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Books to Help You Talk About Racism

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RAR #155: Your Questions… and Library’s Most Wanted

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RAR #154: When Your Child Doesn’t Love Reading

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RAR #153: Jim Trelease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, 8th Edition

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RAR #152: Finishing the School Year Doesn’t Need to Be a Slog

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Tomie Day

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Special Event: Emma by Jane Austen

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RAR #151: It’s a Story… So What? Barb Rosenstock

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RAR #150: Water Your Bamboo—How to Focus on the Process (not the outcome) in your Homeschool

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RAR #149: Keeping Up with Advanced Readers, Colleen Kessler

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RAR #148: 3 Books I Adore, Reading Curriculum, and What We’re Reading Aloud this Spring

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RAR #147: Our Favorite Math Read-Alouds

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RAR #146: The Astonishing Impact of Louisa May Alcott

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RAR #145: The Importance of Reading at Whim and Developing Your Own Taste, Alan Jacobs

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RAR Special Edition: The Woman Who Gave us Miss Rumphius

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RAR #144: Take the 31-Day Read-Aloud Challenge

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RAR #143: Kate DiCamillo is Back!

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RAR #142: What We’re Reading This Winter ❄️

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RAR #141: Why Re-Reading is Possibly the Best Reading

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How to Draw a Scarecrow

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RAR #140: How to Fold Poetry into Your Routine, with Sally Thomas

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RAR #139: Kindness Over Curiosity: Favorite Books Featuring Differently Abled Characters

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Book of the Week: The Race Around the World

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RAR #138: How to Choose Books for Your Kids

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Book of the Week: The Drawing Lesson

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RAR #137: Why Your Kids Love Graphic Novels (and which we like best!)

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Book of the Week: The Wild Robot

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RAR #136: If You Want Your Kids to Love Reading, Try This

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Book of the Week: Tuesdays at the Castle

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Book of the Week: The Gardener

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RAR #135: What We’re Reading This Fall (and an invitation 💌)

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Book of the Week: The Hawk of the Castle

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Favorite Picture Books for the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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Book of the Week: The Mysterious Giant of Barletta

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RAR #134: Author Access with Sally Lloyd-Jones (author of The Jesus Storybook Bible)

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Book of the Week: In Mary’s Garden

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Book of the Week: Goodbye Friend, Hello Friend

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RAR #133: Books Take You Places (and some favorite seaside titles)

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Moon Landing Anniversary :: Drawing Tutorials

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Book of the Week: Book of a Thousand Days

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RAR #132: Books for Teens, and Why YA is a Genre (not a reading level)

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Book of the Week: Gone Fishing

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Book of the Week: Moonshot

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RAR #131: Books About the Moon Landing

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Book of the Week: Honey…Honey…Lion!

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Book of the Week: Badger’s Perfect Garden

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RAR #130: Reading Aloud as an Obstinate Act of Love, with Meghan Cox Gurdon

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Book of the Week: Hats Off to Mr. Pockles!

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Book(s) of the Week: Obadiah

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RAR #129: Jim Weiss: Storytime with Jim Weiss (and how to read aloud better!)

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Book of the Week: Watersong