Diane Frankenstein, children’s reading specialist and author of a new book, “Reading Together: Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Child Who Loves to Read” will return to WAB in March, offering sessions for parents, staff and the international school community in Beijing.
Recipient of the Library Journal Starred Review and the GOLD Mom’s Choice Award, Ms. Frankenstein believes in the following simple equation: Read a book + Ask a question + Start a conversation = Raise a child who loves to read. Her educational consulting business specializes in children’s literature and provides school communities — parents, teachers, and librarians, as well as individual families, and private organizations — the tools, resources, and knowledge that ensure children learn to love to read.
Sessions will be held on the following dates:
Monday, March 8 Parents and Faculty Introductory Presentation (7-9 PM)
Tuesday, March 9 2 x Sessions (2.5 hours each)
Wednesday, March 10 2 x Sessions (2.5 hours each)
Topics include: book recommendations that speak to both a child’s reading level and emotional readiness for the story; useful tips to make reading with children enjoyable; a demonstration of “Conversational Reading”, a successful approach to talking with children about the stories they read; and conversation starters for any story.
For more information, contact John Byrne ES Teacher-Librarian/WS Library Coordinator at jbyrne@wab.edu.
Praise for Reading Together:
“Diane Frankenstein has written an exceptional practical guide to exploring and expanding on children’s literature that will help anyone who reads with children to extend the experience and help them make connections between their thoughts and what they read. Also, by enriching young readers’ current experiences, it can also encourage them to become lifelong readers drawn to the enduring power of the written word to help them understand and articulate thoughts about life as they experience it.”
—Marie Conti American Montessori Society
“In Reading Together, Diane Frankenstein provides a delightful springboard for conversations between adults and children about literature. The author distills a lifetime of reading and teaching children’s literature into an accessible guidebook that will be useful in the library and the classroom and, most important, at home. Original and imaginative, the book is a wonderful resource for parents and educators who are interested in generating—and sustaining—a love of reading in young people.”
—Coreen R. Hester Head of School at The American School in London