madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Just musing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 We're in the middle of Harry Potter- read a chapter today. Also, read a chapter of the Ben Franklin biography we're working through today. DS read me a chapter of the book he's writing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) I am currently reading the Septamus Heap series with DS, who is 12. We trade turns, though; he reads aloud for a while and then I do. ETA: typo Edited April 7, 2017 by Quill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) I don't have a clue but I mostly read school stuff to him. Dh was the one who did night time read-alouds. The last book dh read aloud to him was the 7th Harry Potter book. By then he was more than old enough to read it himself (though I don't remember how old) but he had been reading the whole series to ds so it was only right that they finished it aloud together. Edited April 7, 2017 by Lady Florida. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage81 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I just finished reading Nim's Island to DDs this evening. We also finished Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets last week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceseeker Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I am reading Little Men and Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales aloud now to my two, ages 11 and 13. I still read some of our history selections out loud as well. They both read independently for both school and pleasure but they still enjoy it when I read to them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 My kids are 10, and I'm reading The Wheel on the School. Their teacher recently read them Number the Stars. We're also listening to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on audiobook. I think reading aloud will continue for at least another year or two. It depends on our schedule more than anything else. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) Just finished Monks and Mystics. Right before that Robin Hood. Next up: Swallows and Amazons Audiobook for the car is Peter Pan right now. Kids are 9 and 11 Edited April 7, 2017 by ScoutTN 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalypso Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) Just finished 100 Cupboards. My dd12 and dd8 listened and sometimes ds15. Edited April 7, 2017 by azmom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 We read the Bible, Bible stories, missionary stories, or other Christian literature every night before bed. It's good for me as well as my daughter! I have learned a lot more about the Old Testament, which I don't know as well as I should. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thessa516 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 6 and 9 year old: Charlotte's Web 11 and 13 year old: Tom Sawyer Family Read Aloud: Artemis Fowl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) We just finished The Little Prince. He is 16.Now I am reading aloud Politics and the English Language by George Orwell. It is not nearly as fun :) Edited April 7, 2017 by Penguin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hmm.. ds did the literature program about The Lord of the Rings in 9th grade. That would have been about 13 for him, which meant dd was 11. I think during that program, we read aloud Roger Zelazny's Night in Lonesome October. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 We do tons of read alouds--we make it a point to snuggle and read after lunch (even though I have one who is not so keen on snuggling anymore, lol.) Last week we finished Peter Pan. Coming soon we have The Hiding Place. Not sure what's actually up next--I should check the schedule. Then at night we spend the last 30+ minutes of the night snuggling and reading our own thing. Of course, the same kid is weaning off that too :crying: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) We just finished The Little Prince. He is 16. Now I am reading aloud Politics and the English Language by George Orwell. It is not nearly as fun :) This gives me hope! â¤ï¸We are on de Tocqueville next ;) Edited April 7, 2017 by madteaparty 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 The Brothers Karamazov. All of it. He was about 14. Maybe 15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 The Brothers Karamazov. All of it. He was about 14. Maybe 15. How perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loowit Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I am reading Children's Homer The Iliad and the Odyssey to my boys. We are also working our way through the Harry Potter series. I am reading Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Spy to the girl. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Just finished Island of the Blue Dolphins and am currently reading Cheaper by the Dozen with dd (12yo). I only read with ds1 until 14yo and ds2 until 12yo when they both went to school full time. But they listened to a lot of audiobooks in the car as teens and dd doesn't care for them at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 The Selfish Crocodile, to my 4 and 6 year old. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Just finished Island of the Blue Dolphins and am currently reading Cheaper by the Dozen with dd (12yo). I only read with ds1 until 14yo and ds2 until 12yo when they both went to school full time. But they listened to a lot of audiobooks in the car as teens and dd doesn't care for them at all. Mine is going to school at 14, too. So I have a bucket list going. 😩 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I was just reading, BrotherBand book 6, "Ghostfaces" to Youngest. Before that I read, you'll never guess, BrotherBand book 5.... I do keep a record of the various books read in our house. Simple because I couldn't note ever single little picture book, I made the cut-off of an hour. As in, if the book takes an hour or so to read, then it goes on my list. I also keep records of the books the boys read. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Good thread. I have no idea what the last book was that we read aloud and how old they were, besides scriptures which we read usually every day together (but that's different). But it makes me feel sad. I mean, who says, "okay, this is the last book we'll read together aloud"? (I'm not condemning you, OP). What a non-momentous occasion and if I were a kid I'd be thinking, "what?!! Never again!??" Mom of the year award to anyone who is still reading with or to their teenagers. Thank you, once again, for your fine examples, hive moms. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Good thread. I have no idea what the last book was that we read aloud and how old they were, besides scriptures which we read usually every day together (but that's different). But it makes me feel sad. I mean, who says, "okay, this is the last book we'll read together aloud"? (I'm not condemning you, OP). What a non-momentous occasion and if I were a kid I'd be thinking, "what?!! Never again!??" Mom of the year award to anyone who is still reading with or to their teenagers. Thank you, once again, for your fine examples, hive moms. It was one of the greatest pleasures of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 I mean, who says, "okay, this is the last book we'll read together aloud"? (I'm not condemning you, OP). Well, it wouldn't be me that says such a thing, for sure... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 It was one of the greatest pleasures of my life. Yes m'am. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 It was one of the greatest pleasures of my life. I loved teaching them, working with them, on learning how to read. My daughters have become little bookworms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 It was the last Sisters Grimm book. Ds was 13 or 14. I would have continued reading aloud but they had already begun resisting. They wanted to read on their own. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Last summer, DS#1 and I enjoyed doing "reader's theater" aloud together of Star Wars Shakespeare. He was 24. :) We read aloud all the way up through 12th grade, and even managed a few books into college, just for fun, because our family loves read alouds. So, no need to stop if you don't want to, and if everyone is enjoying it. :) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I read parts of the Magician's Nephew with my 11 year old last month. I read all of the Hobbit aloud to him last summer. I'm reading MacBeth with the 11 and 16 year olds together right now, we all take turns/parts, does that count? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I loved teaching them, working with them, on learning how to read. My daughters have become little bookworms. So wonderful!!! And mine...is not. Gyah!!! I read aloud to home for three or more hours a day from the time we starter until he was in 5th or 6th grade. His demand. Maybe he thinks we already read All The Books. Ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoorsy Type Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Listening to an audio of HP and the Half Blood Prince with all ages. Reading Farmer Boy with my 9yo. I also read short stories for my middle schoolers literature. The last one was The Ransom Of Red Chief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechWife Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I know we read Julius Caesar when he was seventeen, but I dint think it was the last book we read together. I'm not entirely sure, though. Cherish the moments! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMamaBird Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I read Sandra Boynton's "Barnyard Dance" book to my 2 year old today. :laugh: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Nowadays, i read aloud mostly memoir or nonfiction that I loved and want to discuss with everyone. I read to dh and DC (young adults). I think we do at least one book a year this way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Nowadays, i read aloud mostly memoir or nonfiction that I loved and want to discuss with everyone. I read to dh and DC (young adults). I think we do at least one book a year this way. You're on to something...adding dH to my audience when he's not travelling...perhaps before they go off to play overwatch ;) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Still doing history read alouds with my 14 yo 8th grader. We'll finish Warriors Don't Cry (nonfiction about integration of Central High by one of the 9 students--highly recommend), and before that was Grapes of Wrath. I think we'll finish the year with Brave New World. Last read aloud with both dds (older was 16) was Pride and Prejudice last summer. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaraby Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 We're currently reading "Bridge to Terabithia." Oldest is 12. We're also listening to "The League of Beastly Dreadfuls" on audiobook. A couple of weeks ago, I read aloud to dh while he drove. Sometimes I'd like to stop reading aloud. Sadly, no one else here shares my opinion. :p 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 You're on to something...adding dH to my audience when he's not travelling...perhaps before they go off to play overwatch ;) It's nice to have a shared book to discuss without having to wait for everyone to read it on their own! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busymama7 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Summer of the Monkeys. Loved by the ones ages 7-16 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWillSoar Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Around The World in 80 Days to my 13 and 16 year old kids. The 13 year old prefers to read on his own so he ended up breaking off from us to read on his own. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimeeM Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I just read Strega Nona to The Marvelous Flying Marco (yes, at midnight, lol). He's having a hard time sleeping in his new bed. He's almost 5 years old. Prior to that (not today), I read a few pages of Gilgamesh the King to DS7. I read aloud some of DD15's physics book (to her), if that counts :P 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Episode 16 of the [wonderful] Read-Aloud Revival podcast is a wonderful chat with Alice Ozma about how her dad never let there last book until the very day she went to college. Her book The Reading Promise is enjoyable but I think I enjoyed the podcast interview as much or more. You can listen to it here if you'd like to check it out: https://amongstlovelythings.com/12/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) Twins 6 - still doing picture books for their bedtime story New arrival 8- Magic Faraway tree Ds13- just finished Archamidies and just started The Golden Goblet Edited April 7, 2017 by Melissa in Australia 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 It has been several years. For dd13, it was the last of the Sisters Grimm series. For dd15, I think it was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Dh and I read to each girl separately because they had vastly different attention spans and needed some one on one time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I am currently reading the second Fablehaven to my 14yo dd & 12yo ds. Amber in SJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lea1 Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Yesterday I read The Sign of the Beaver to my two 11 year old sons. We all loved it so much, we spent the whole morning on it and finished it by noon:). Such fun. The day before we finished Little Men, which we had been reading for a few weeks. Before that, we read the Lord of the Rings books. I also read aloud the Bible to them each day and I read history and science aloud also. I love it. They also read on their own though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Just finished Monks and Mystics. Right before that Robin Hood. Next up: Swallows and Amazons Audiobook for the car is Peter Pan right now. Kids are 9 and 11 Swallows and Amazons is our all-time favorite read-aloud, no question. It took us a while to get into it, but once we did, we never looked back. Read all the rest of the books one right after the other. I can even picture the scene the day the book clicked for us, where we were, all that stuff. Last read-aloud, I don't remember. Maybe it was The Metamorphosis. I know they were deep into high school when I stopped. And I only stopped because our schedules are too divergent now. The other day one of my kids said "you know what I miss? Field trips and reading aloud." I would read to them forever if I could. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaBearTeacher Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 With DS10: The Magician's Nephew With DS13and DS15: Pride and Prejudice and the Crispin books by Avi All great books! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insertcreativenamehere Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 My kids are 4, 7, 10 and 12 and I still read aloud to them. My daughter and I are reading Betsy, Tacy & Tib right now. I'm also reading In Grandma's Attic to the three older kids. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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