Diane Frankenstein

Archive for 2010

Grandmas brag about Reading Together

September 22, 2010

Frankenstein has discovered the equation for helping children to love reading…and provides a wealth of strategies, book titles, and conversation topics to help children find what to read and then how to find meaning and pleasure in their reading. Read More>>

Program with Diane Frankenstein, author of Reading Together, scheduled in Cleveland area

September 21, 2010

Diane Frankenstein, award winning author of Reading Together will be at Ford Middle School in Brook Park on Tuesday, September 28 at 7 p.m. Read More>>

Happy Birthday William Carlos Williams

September 17, 2010

William Carlos Williams had a unique combination of talents, being both a pediatrician and a poet. To pay tribute to his wide range of poetry, let me share two very different poems he wrote. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and […]

Read a book. Ask a question. Start a conversation.

September 16, 2010

Conventional wisdom has become so focused on the importance of reading to children that it has, to a large extent, ignored the critical component of the importance of talking with children about what they read. As important as it is to read aloud to children, many of the benefits of the read aloud experience are […]