I have a six-year-old, so I still read aloud to her quite often. She's also now reading well enough herself that we can take turns reading aloud with only minor scaffolding. One of our current favourites for this is Mélanie Watt's book Chester, in which the author (in black type) and her egotistical cat (in red marker) compete to tell their stories. Sometimes I'm Chester and she's Mélanie, and sometimes the other way around.
In our pre-parenting days, my husband and I read the first three Harry Potters together. Mostly I read and he listened, because, having majored in English and French Lit, and thus perforce done an enormous amount of reading aloud in front of people, I am more comfortable with it (also, I talk less at work than he does, so my voice is less tired at the end of the day). It was a good experience, and I would also like to do it again (maybe with the rest of the Harry Potters, which he still hasn't read!!).
ETA: I meant to add that we don't read aloud in the car -- he's driving, and I get carsick if I read (a legacy of pregnancy, it appears, because I never used to). Neither of us has ever commuted by car, either, so I was on my second reading of your post before I realized you weren't talking about reading aloud to each other on the bus or subway :D
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Date: 2009-02-20 03:53 pm (UTC)In our pre-parenting days, my husband and I read the first three Harry Potters together. Mostly I read and he listened, because, having majored in English and French Lit, and thus perforce done an enormous amount of reading aloud in front of people, I am more comfortable with it (also, I talk less at work than he does, so my voice is less tired at the end of the day). It was a good experience, and I would also like to do it again (maybe with the rest of the Harry Potters, which he still hasn't read!!).
ETA: I meant to add that we don't read aloud in the car -- he's driving, and I get carsick if I read (a legacy of pregnancy, it appears, because I never used to). Neither of us has ever commuted by car, either, so I was on my second reading of your post before I realized you weren't talking about reading aloud to each other on the bus or subway :D