Episodes 304
Avg. Duration 41m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (3,359)
Since Apr 2014
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Sarah Mackenzie helps your family fall in love with books, and helps *you* fall in love with homeschooling.

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Best of RAR: The Joy of Shakespeare

Jun 11, 2026 55m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. When I mention Shakespeare, a lot of people immediately conjure up visions of high school English class, struggling through Julius Caesar line by line.Which is an…

RAR #281: Homeschooling High School with Rachel Kovac

May 28, 2026 53m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. How do we homeschool high school? It’s *the* question, isn’t it?A lot of us go into homeschooling ready and excited for the younger years. Then as high school…

RAR #280: Books Take Us Places

May 14, 2026 38m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. One of the very best ways to travel with your children is through books.Physically travelling as a family isn’t always possible for a variety of reasons, but by…

Best of RAR: Becoming Your Child’s Mentor

Apr 30, 2026 33m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure.  What would happen if you decided to be your child's mentor rather than their teacher? What if you awakened their wonder and curiosity so that they became the kind…

RAR #279: Baptizing the Imagination with Malcolm Guite

Apr 16, 2026 48m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. What is your calling in life? For poet, songwriter, and academic, Malcolm Guite, it’s unequivocally clear–to be a storyteller. Today on the podcast Audrey and I…

Best of RAR: When Your Developing Reader Resists Reading

Apr 02, 2026 33m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Learning to read can be hard. And when our kids are still learning to read fluently and well, helping them fall in love with books can feel impossible.But it…

RAR #278: How to Actually Connect with Our Kids, Dr. Matthew Breuninger

Mar 19, 2026 49m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. We all want to build those meaningful and lasting connections with our kids. Around here, we’re usually talking about doing that through books and reading aloud.…

Best of RAR: How a “Best Moments” List Can Help You Love Your Homeschool featuring Jon Acuff

Mar 05, 2026 46m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Today, we’re revisiting a listener-favorite episode that has some advice and an activity that I think are perfect for this time of year in our homeschools.Jon…

RAR #277: Inspiring Heroic Virtue in Our Kids

Feb 19, 2026 40m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. We talk a lot around here about the incredible impact stories have on our kids. They build empathy and connection, letting us walk a mile in another’s shoes. And…

Best of RAR: Why Read Aloud to Kids Who Can Read Themselves

Feb 05, 2026 27m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Why do we read aloud to our kids? Especially those who can read to themselves? This is a topic that comes up all the time at Read-Aloud Revival and it’s one I’m…

RAR #276: Learning to Ask Good Questions (Audrey’s Back!)

Jan 22, 2026 36m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Today’s episode is a special treat featuring the return of a listener-favorite guest who happens to be one of my favorite people, too. 😉Back on episode 209, my…

RAR #275: Could We Have Tranquility by Tuesday? Laura Vanderkam

Jan 08, 2026 39m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. If I were to ask you if your life ever felt tranquil, you would probably do one of two things: bust out laughing or look at me like I was from another planet.I get…

Best of RAR: Jolabokaflod

Dec 04, 2025 20m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. What if I told you there’s an Icelandic Christmas tradition where the whole point is to spend an evening sitting around, sipping hot cocoa, and reading books?Sign…

RAR #274: Behind the Scenes of One of My Favorite Christmas Picture Books

Nov 13, 2025 40m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. We all know there is no shortage of Christmas picture books out there. But for a book to make it onto my kids’ Christmas stack or onto a Read Aloud Revival…

[Bonus] God Is Not Disappointed In You

Nov 05, 2025 10m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Hey hey, it's Sarah Mackenzie!I am here with a bonus episode. I host another podcast — it's called Circle with Sarah— and it's a short, weekly podcast that helps…

Best of RAR: Education is for Love

Oct 30, 2025 53m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Have you ever worried that you’re not meeting all of your child’s needs—academically, emotionally, spiritually, or even socially? Pretty much every day,…

RAR #273: Imagining the Childhood of C.S. Lewis, with Judith McQuoid

Oct 16, 2025 40m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Many of you will already know that I am a huge fan of The Chronicles of Narnia. Today, I want to introduce my fellow Narnia lovers to a new book that jumped right…

RAR #272: Giving Flora Her Voice with Astrid Sheckels

Oct 02, 2025 49m Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Astrid Sheckels continues the wit and whimsy of childhood through her marvelous and magnificent illustrations and storytelling. You might recognize her from the…

Best of RAR: What Do We Mean by Peace?

Sep 18, 2025 1h 2m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. Peace. It sounds lovely, right? It’s what so many of us want more than anything else in our homeschools. We long for peace, even if it often feels unattainable.But…

Best of RAR: 5 Habits of Happy Homeschoolers

Sep 04, 2025 55m Bonus Transcript

Join us for RAR's Summer Adventure. What does having a happy homeschool mean to you? How would you describe it? What would you be doing?Our homeschools are all unique. We have different kids,…

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Read-Aloud Revival ® is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 41m.

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