{"id":47,"date":"2026-10-31T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/reading-aloud-small-habits\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:50:44","slug":"reading-aloud-small-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/reading-aloud-small-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Aloud: Small Habits for Big Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading aloud is not a performance, but it helps to treat it a little like one. Children notice when we slow down for the good bits, when we pause before turning the page and when we enjoy it ourselves.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let the pictures breathe<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picture books tell half their story in the illustrations. Stop and look. Ask what they notice. In <em>Fox and the Very Tall Forest<\/em>, the fox is hiding on every spread: let them find it before you read the words.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Make the page turn count<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good picture books are built around page turns. A short pause before the turn turns a sentence into a surprise.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read it again<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fourteenth reading of a favourite book is not a chore; it is how children learn that stories can be relied on. Let them join in with the words they know.<\/p><p class=\"fo-demo-note wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices, pauses and the art of the page turn: a few habits that make reading aloud a joy for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-aloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}