Rediscovering the lost power of reading aloud

Re:Rediscovering the lost power of reading aloud by docdeek on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:51AM (#22128472)

FTA: "With schools having largely withdrawn from the practice of making students memorize poetry, few of us today have anything approaching the interior resources of a rhapsode.”

My son attends school in France and learning by heart and then reciting poems is something he does regularly as part of his homework.

Professionally, I’ve found that reading aloud is how I most easily catch the errors in text that I’ve written. Personally, there’s something magical about reading aloud to children and being able to maintain their attention with voices, expression, and variations in tone.

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Re:Rediscovering the lost power of reading aloud by markandrewj on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:54PM (#22131168)

I find reading my own writing out loud helps me to significantly improve the quality. I don't think this was ever suggested to me to try during primary education, but it is a writing strategy that I think more children should be taught.

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