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Apr 03 2020

Read the Classics Aloud: Recommended Reading List for Teens

by Karen Boniface

April 3, 2020

Reading aloud should not end with childhood. It is not something to grow out of. It is something to keep growing into.

As teens come of age in a culture filled with chaos and confusion, books provide the perfect safe place to wrestle with questions about identity, purpose, relationships, and values. Stories draw us into the lives and worlds of characters we come to care about, sparking communication between parents and teens about important issues that concern them. Through sharing stories, parents can help guide teens to maturity, wisdom, and virtue.

Reading aloud, we learn to listen. To talk. To respect another’s thoughts and feelings.

In the movie I Remember Mama, a 1948 dramatization of Kathryn Forbes’s novel Mama’s Bank Account, an impoverished lodger—Jonathan Hyde—reads Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities aloud for Mama’s family. Hyde transports them to a world of sublime imagination. It’s one of my all-time favorite scenes.

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Written by Karen Boniface · Categorized: Reading, Teen

Mar 09 2020

Read the Classics Aloud: Recommended Reading List for Youths

by Karen Boniface

March 9, 2020

We are experiencing unprecedented times. At Inkwell, we’re here to help. Surely your inbox has exploded with COVID-19 emails. Ours has. Everything from alarmists spreading rumors, spammers preying on people’s panic to buy over-priced products promising protection, closure alerts, and redundant announcements of what businesses are doing to sanitize their facilities and prevent the spread of the virus. Rather than living in fear as families, let’s practice peace, gratitude, and solidarity by reading aloud.

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Written by Karen Boniface · Categorized: Reading, Youth

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