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I am really great at reading out loud and making a story come alive. Seriously. I've read Harry Potter out loud twice, when my youngest and oldest were each in kindergarten 7 years apart. (Usually we get to the second book in the series when they are starting first grade and they quickly tire of having to wait for Mama, so they pick up the book and read it themselves.) I read Hamlet out loud to all three of my kids a couple of years ago, and even the pre-schooler was enthralled.
I love volunteering at my kids' school when they have parents in to read out loud, but rarely get the chance. I read a chapter of "The Sky Inside" to my daughter's 4th grader classmates last year. The next time I visited the classroom, one of the kids told me that their class kept all three copies of that book checked out of the school library for a month because they wanted to hear the rest of the story. That made my heart sing!
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