Thank you to everyone who was involved in putting together
the Literacy Workshop with Diane Frankenstein. My husband and I are avid
readers, so going into the workshop I was anxious and excited to find out and
learn what we could implement or change in our home that would help us, help
our children find and keep their love for learning.
I left the workshop completely enthusiastic. As soon as I
got home I took a few moments to review page 16 of Reading Together and chose a
question I would use to initiate a conversation with our daughters.
I then asked our girls to look at the pictures of the book,
Unlovable, and to tell me what they believed was happening. When I finished reading the book, magic happened. I utilized one of Diane
Frankenstein’s conversation starters and changed it up a bit. Instead of asking
our daughter’s “What would you do in this situation,” I asked them “if Alfred
(the dog) was a child, and the other animals were children what would you do in
this situation? Our five-year-old daughter, Zoë, became extremely emotional.
She said, “Mom, don’t they know that everyone belongs? That it does not matter
what we look like on the outside, because we are all the same on the inside?
The conversation evolved from there.
It turned into a long successful conversation about how
“judging” and treating individuals “different” because of the way they look is
unacceptable. The conversation brought our little family together in an amazing
way. It was also a joyous moment for us that there were questions we could ask
that would help our kids get more from the books they read and continue their
love of reading.
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