Archive for 2011
PJ Families in Dallas: KICK-OFF Event with award winning author, Diane Frankenstein. Sunday, November 6, 3-5pm.
October 31, 2011
Turn your children into lifelong readers and help them get the most from the books they read. read more>> Adults only program. Free child care will be provided, please RSVP for the program to pjlibrary@jfgd.org “ I came away with a wealth of new ideas and techniques that I can use in the classroom but […]
Breakfast & Books. Thursday, November 3, 8:45-10:45am Old Mill School, Mill Valley, CA.
October 24, 2011
Tips and strategies on how to help your child find their “home run” books and get the most from their reading. And more>>Breakfast & Books
Diane comments on the pleasures of rereading books on the PJLibrary® Blog
October 19, 2011
Early reading expert (and PJ Library consultant and speaker) Diane Frankenstein is a long-time supporter and advocate of re-reading books to children — and she, too, is a devoted adult re-reader herself. Read more>>
Children need social face-to-face interaction to learn language.
October 19, 2011
“Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language” http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2016472193_ brainlanguagesbaby11.html speaks to the many benefits of babies growing up bilingual and it also speaks to the social, face to face interaction children need to learn language. Research has shown that exposing English-language infants to someone speaking to them in Mandarin helped those babies preserve the ability […]
Diane comments in NYT 10.18.2011
October 19, 2011
Children need social face-to-face social interaction to learn language. Babies learn language from people, not from gadgets.>>read more
