E260: Read Alouds, Guest, Lana Edwards Santoro

Now, I see a couple of things here that are reasonable to me.

And maybe it's because...

It's just because history puts me there.

So I can picture myself reading to little kids.

I can picture myself reading to somebody in a hospital bed or an older adult maybe who is in mental decline.

I can't grasp sitting down with my spouse and saying, let's read a book together.

So talk to me about that.

Yes, but you might pull a news article and say, guess what I'm reading, either from my online or from the actual printed newspaper, right? Or you come across an interesting article.

So it doesn't necessarily have to be a book per se.

It's the printed text and reading that

out.

And now we do.

And now we do.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

I

also, oh, sorry, Ray.

I also think of, yeah, families who read together.

And I think families will relate to this, grandparents too.

When Harry Potter, Harry Potter was such an incredible thing for readers and literature when that book was published.

But families would sit around the table or in their living room and read together because that was such an exciting book to have and read.

So it does, yeah, those are the examples.

Okay.

Are there some essential ingredients that I might have missed here about reading aloud? I mean, I think we talked about the fact that it is a text material, that it doesn't have to be a storybook or a novel.

It can be a news article or something like that.