Read it Again and Again: How do Picture Books Work?

About the event

Join Jennifer Stone, PhD, CCC-SLP as she teaches us how picture books work and what are the best ways use them.

Any adult (parents, caregivers, teachers, etc.) who wants to learn more about picture books and how they work is welcome to register. We hope to provide a fun and engaging space to learn how to increase critical literacy for ourselves and the children we read with. As a group, we will read a picture book and then discuss theoretical frameworks that can be used for analysis. Then we'll choose a different lens and read the book again to see what we discover! Dr. Stone will draw upon multiple sources including Poetry Unbound, Five in a Row, and modern pedagogical texts including "Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates". This will be an interactive workshop, and patrons are invited to share feelings, observations, ideas, and ask questions. We welcome you all for a night of learning and sharing!

Jennifer Stone, PhD, CCC-SLP

Jennifer Stone lives in South Durham and owns Stone Circle Speech Therapy and Parent Coaching. She has specialized in early intervention, parent coaching, and literacy for over 30 years. Her work has taken her to hundreds of homes and she loves learning about parents' resourcefulness and creativity. In addition to therapy and coaching, Dr. Stone is a researcher, and her doctoral research focused on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and social power systems. She sees picture books as literary works that can transform our understanding and our culture. Dr. Stone loves sharing and learning about them with others who appreciate them as art. In addition to her work, Stone is a mom of two adults, whom she homeschooled before they graduated from North Carolina School of Science and Math and NC universities. She loves reading, dancing, traveling, and being in nature.