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EPISODE 23Cheat Sheet by Kortney Garrison

Meet Julie Bogart 2 In this Episode 2 Cheater’s Guide 3 Major Takeaways 4 Show Notes 5 Action Plan 6

Reading with Teens & Big Juicy ConversationsGuest: Julie Bogart

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Meet Julie BogartJulie homeschooled her five children and is the founder of Brave Writer. Brave Writer seeks to bring peace and progress to the writing process. Julie gives parents the tools they need to support their children as they become competent writers through writing manuals, online classes, and encouraging blog posts. She also mentors parents in The Homeschool Alliance.

In This EpisodeJulie talks about what reading aloud with older kids really looks like. She talks about reading one-on-one and gives us the kinds of questions to ask--questions that invite the big, juicy conversations and build the rhetorical imagination. She introduces the joys of Poetry Teatime, the fun of watching movies together, and the best way to pick books for teens.

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Cheater’s GuideUse this guide to skip to parts that most interest you, or listen to the entire podcast.

5:00 How Brave Writer began

8:15 Creating the environment where our children can grow

10:45 Books? Yes! But movies and TV too!

11:39 The writing renaissance

15:25 An Introduction to the Brave Writer lifestyle

17:22 Poetry Teatime--The Brave Writer gateway drug

22:10 What to do when your day is going wrong

23:50 Reading aloud with teens

26:28 Reading aloud one-on-one

27:18 What reading aloud really looks like

28:25 Becoming a conversation partner

32:35 What kinds of questions should you ask about books

35:20 The intersection of setting, audience, and the historical moment

39:10 Developing the rhetorical imagination

41:25 Choosing books with teens

43:50 An entire life of reading ahead for your children

47:00 Finding out more about Brave Writer

50:05 The Homeschool Alliance

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Major Takeaways { An environment that fosters growth

“I realized that parents who home educate needed more than a manual telling them what their kids should be writing and how they should be writing it, si we did instruction in how to facilitate the development of the inner writer, the person that lives inside that has something to say and wants to say it.” Brave Writer offers a unique approach to writing instruction. Julie’s approach focuses on creating an environment that fosters the natural stages of growth in writing.

{ TV and education aren’t mutually exclusive“When your kids are watching TV and they’re laughing, it means they’re getting it. And if they’re getting it, the language is embedding itself in a way that no vocabulary workbook can achieve so I’m not saying plug your kid in front of the TV and you can opt out and go skiing. But what I’m saying is, be less fearful. Go ahead and watch a marathon of Lord of the Rings. Go ahead and allow them to enjoy a sitcom. These are ways that they are actually building vocabulary in addition to having some time for fun.” The choice isn’t between watching TV all day and getting an education. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

{ Homeschooling with peace and joy“You will start to experience what you thought homeschooling was supposed to be. It’s going to feel natural. There will be some peace and joy.” Incorporating simple practices like poetry tea time into your homeschool day can help your kids fall in love with poetry. But it brings more elusive benefits as well.

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Show NotesBooks from today’s episode:

Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face: and Other Poems by Jack Prelutsky

Emma by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles

The Little House by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Other links from today’s show:

Julie’s company: Brave Writer

More information on the Brave Writer Lifestyle

More on Poetry Teatimes

Julie’s thoughts on reading aloud

The Homeschool Alliance, Julie’s coaching site

Find Brave Writer on Facebook, Twitter

Julie mentioned Charlotte Mason-style education

To find more resources to help you build your family culture around books, visit ReadAloudRevival.com.

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Action Plan1. Try a Poetry Tea Time

“The point though is that once everyone sort of calms down and they pick their poems, you each read one aloud and your only obligation for this hour and a half of fun is happiness…. But just once a week, take an hour out of your lives and just turn off your phone and read poems and have tea and eat something yummy.” Try a Poetry Tea Time! If you need more tea time inspiration, Julie did a Master Class training that’s available in the Read-Aloud Revival Membership Site.

2. Try a rich conversation“But what you want are rich conversations. Reading a book that has a movie version, absolutely! Do the book. And then the movie or do the movie and then the book. And talk about them. And help your teens start to do that rhetorical imagination work where they’re analyzing and thinking about themes and characterization and that kind of stuff.” If the idea of helping your teen develop the rhetorical imagination seems intimidating, pick out a movie to watch together and talk about. Julie has a great list of family friendly films to help get you started.

3. Come alongside“So what I would recommend for parents and teens, teens who [continue homeschooling], is that you put them in the best context for rich dialog about what they’re learning. It should not be a solo journey. It can be independent but it shouldn’t be solo.” Poetry tea time can bring a little joy to your homeschool. Watching movies together can help you begin to have rich conversations. Then you can start to think about other ways to come alongside your teen. What can you do that will help them become more independent but not alone?