Inspire the Desire for Writing!
Target Audience: Teachers (Grade 2-8/Year 3-9)
Course Leader: David Greenberg
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Date: November 8 - 9, 2012
Venue: To be confirmedCity: Shanghai, China
Course Leader
David Greenberg teaches hundred of writing workshops a year in classrooms of all sorts across America and overseas. He has taught courses for the University of Idaho, Lewis & Clark College, and Oregon State University, among others. And he is the founder, director, and one of the instructors for the Oregon Coast Children’s Book Writers Workhsop (www.occbww.com) the purpose of which is to help adult writers produce publishable, children’s manuscripts.
David specializes in poetry books for children, and is the author of such wonderfully reviewed books as:
SLUGS, BUGS!, SKUNKS!, SNAKES!
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUMPTY DUMPTY?
THE GREAT SCHOOL LUNCH REBELLION
THE BOOK OF BOYS FOR GIRLS – THE BOOK OF GIRLS FOR BOYS
DON’T FORGET YOUR ETIQUETTE
CROCS!
ENCHANTED LIONS
His novel, A TUGGING STRING, was a runner-up for the Oregon Book Award and winner of the Oregon Sprit Award. David is often keynote speaker at Young Authors Celebrations or School Author days. His lifelong mission is to convey his joy of books, writing, literacy to children.
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High Interest Components of Program
- Specific lessons to teach writing with more interesting and effective vocabulary
- Specific lessons to teach writing with stronger vocabulary
- Specific lessons to teach writing that draw from the stuff of students’ daily lives
- Specific lessons to teach the sheer fun of writing
- Specific lessons to teach more powerfully descriptive writing
- Specific lessons to teach students how to get ideas.
Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately
- Techniques to get your students writing with stronger, more interesting, effective vocabulary
- Lessons to inspire reluctant writers to start writing with energy and joy
- Lessons that will show students how they can draw from the stuff of their daily lives to weave wonderful writing
- Lessons that help students to write with an eye for detail and nuance
- Wonderful story writing techniques
- Wonderful techniques for developing dimensional, effective story characters
- Lessons that will effectively boost student writing confidence and joy in writing
- Lessons that use the patterns and formulae of published children’s books as template for students writing
- Various compelling techniques for creating imagery that crackles
- How to write about relatives you’ve never met in an emotionally engaging way
- Direct language arts games that will immerse all your students in the fun of words
- Assist students to write more powerfully about their feelings
- Encourage children to write with sensitivity for word sounds
- How to use your memory as an enormously effective tool for powerful writing
- Learn how to use cliché’s, platitudes, saying, aphorisms as springboards for thoughtful student writing
- Learn the secret technique that Shel Sylverstein used to brainstorm ideas for his writing
- Have your kids write about death, but in a perfectly appropriate, non-morbid manner
- Find out how you can actually use writing in other languages as the basis for highly imaginative writing in English
- Explore how the medley of lessons presented integrate with the Six Traits Writing model
Workshop Fee
USD 890 Early Bird : USD 755 (register by September 28, 2012)
This fee is inclusive of certificate, materials, coffee breaks and lunch
To Register:
Step 1: Fill out the Workshop Reservation Form (Below)
Step 2: Our office will send you/your coordinating staff the payment details upon receipt of the form.
Step 3: You/your coordinating staff will email the bank pay-in slip to ksithailand@gmail.com
Contact Information
Workshop Coordinator: Mr. Navin Pawa
E-mail: ksithailand@gmail.com
Phone (Thailand): 081 701 6843; 081 846 5770 (replace '0' with '66' for international calls)
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