About Me
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A tutor, a teacher, a mom who never really stopped being a student of reading.
I am a former 1st and 3rd grade teacher, and today I work as a private tutor, helping young children learn to read, and learn to love reading.
My mother is a voracious reader and a lifelong teacher, and for years I resisted following in her footsteps. In my twenties I bounced from job to job, restless, trying to answer the question everyone asks and nobody quite knows how to answer: what do I want to be when I grow up?
Eventually I landed at a school, and within a year I was a 1st grade teacher — just like Mom. If I hadn't been so reluctant to be "just like my mother," I could have saved myself a lot of time.
My daughter didn't make that mistake. She knew early that she wanted to follow in her grandmother's footsteps, and mine. She started teaching last year after college graduation, and begins her Master's this fall.
Helping a child fall in love with reading, and keeping that love alive, is harder than it looks, whether it's a student in my tutoring room or my own kids at bedtime. But that's never been a reason not to do it. This site is the record of one way I tried: reading aloud with my own children, every night, for years longer than anyone expected.
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
— Ernest Hemingway
What I believe
Reading aloud is for every age
It doesn't stop when kids learn to read on their own. The shared experience of a story — the voices, the pauses, the questions — is something no silent reading can replicate.
Books build bridges
Between generations, between strangers, between a child and a parent at the end of a long day. A book read aloud together is a conversation that keeps going long after the last page.
Every child deserves a reader
Not every child has a classroom full of books or a teacher who reads aloud every day. This site exists to help more families find their way into that habit.
Come read with us
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