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Have VS Grenier bring the World of Ink to Your School!

 

Have you always wanted to get a writer to conduct a school visit to promote reading and writing, but haven’t been sure how to go about it? Look no further! VS Grenier will take your students on the flight of their life into the World of Ink.

 

Each power point presentation and workshop is geared to the appropriate age levels filled with interactive stories and activities designed to let the students join in. Helping children realize how important reading is outside the educational process is the number one goal of VS Grenier. 

 


 

VS Grenier would love to bring her books and short stories to your classroom!


VS Grenier is currently available for author visits in the United States. If you would like VS Grenier to visit your school or organization, please contact her by using the form at the bottom of the page.

 

Meeting an author of children's books is a motivational activity that:

 

  1. Encourages sturdents to read
  2. Improves reading, listening, and visualization skills
  3. Stimulates creativity and imagination
  4. Enhances writing skills
  5. Encurages research
  6. Exposes children to a variety of literature
  7. Helps children realize an author is an ordinary person
  8. Helps children learn how to develop ideas for stories
  9. Helps children understand good writing comes from revision.
  10. . Helps children understand the process of how an idea can become a published book

 

VS Grenier School Visit Schedules:

 

Full Day Visit:

Author Presentation after morning announcements. Full school assembly. (time 1 hour)

First workshop, Grades 5th or 5th and 6th (time 30 minutes)

Second workshop, Grades 1st and 2nd (time 30 minutes)

Visit AM Kindergarten (read two of my favorite books-15 minutes)

Lunch with Faculty

Visit PM Kindergarten (read two of my favorite books-15 minutes)

Third workshop, Grades 3rd and 4th (time 30 minutes)

Wrap-up assembly, Full school (time 30 minutes)

 

 

HALF Day Visit:

Author Presentation after morning announcements. Full school assembly. (time 1 hour)

First workshop, Grades 4th, 5th, and 6th (time 30 minutes)

Visit AM Kindergarten (Read two of my favorite books-15 minutes)

Second workshop, Grades 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (time 30 minutes)

Lunch with Faculty

Visit PM Kindergarten (Read two of my favorite books-15 minutes)

Wrap-up assembly, Full school (time 15 minutes)

 

 

TWO Day Visit:

1st Day:

Author Presentation after morning announcements, Grades K-2 (time 1 hour)

Author Presentation, Grades 3-6 (time 1 hour)

Visit AM kindergarten (read and talk to students-20 minutes)

Lunch with Faculty and Select Students

First workshop, Grade 5th or 5th and 6th (time 30 minutes)

Second workshop, Grade 1st (time 30 minutes)

Visit PM Kindergarten (read and talk to students-20 minutes)

 

2nd Day:

Third workshop after morning announcements, Grades 4th (time 30 minutes)

Fourth workshop, Grades 2nd (time 30 minutes)

Fifth workshop full assembly (suggest Becoming a writer workshop-time 1hour)

Break

Lunch with Faculty

Sixth workshop, Grades 3rd (time 30 minutes)

Seventh workshop, Grades 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (time 30 minutes)

Eighth workshop, Grades 4th, 5th, and 6th (time 30 minutes)

Wrap-Up assembly, full school (time 30 minutes)

 

 

Handout Packet for students from VS Grenier:

• A list of places to submit their writing and artwork for publication

• Current issue of Pages & Pens (A monthly newsletter for students, parents, and teachers.)

• Current issue of Stories for Children Magazine on disk

• Certificate of participation in a Stories for Children Workshop

• Bookmarks and pencils

• My contact information so students can send me their questions on writing.

• Stanley Bookman Readig and Writing Membership Card.

 

Children can also purchase autographed books written by VS Grenier, creating a sourenir to keep. Schools will get a percentage of the sales to help fund reading and writing programs.

 

 

 

Presentation and Workshop Information:

 

Author Power Point Presentation~ 
Introduce and talking about how you became a children's writer, why Grenier choose to write for children and about how children can live their dreams. This

fast-paced, interactive fun presentation is full of humor and stories to help break-up all the information about writing. Approx Time: 45 minutes to an hour. (Note: Grener will need a laptop hooked up to a projector, a microphone, and a dark room full of kids.)

Writing Workshop~
In this workshop, Grenier discuss with children the three key points of a story—the beginning, middle, and climax/ending. She will then outline story ideas with the students and put them into these three key points. Grenier will have the children do one or two small writing exercises.

 

Creating Characters Workshop~
This fun technique driven workshop shows children how to use the world around us to create characters. The children will do two different character exercises. The first by observing those around them in the room. The second by using a story line Grenier provide.


Creating Scenes Workshop~
Designed to help teach children learn the art of description, this workshop uses the five senses—touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste. Each child will write about something in the past using only the five senses to bring detail to the scene of the event. At the end of the exercise, Grenier will have some of the children share what they have written to the group.

Brainstorming Plots/Story Lines Workshop~
This is a fun group workshop. Grenier shares with the children the different techniques she uses to come up with story ideas. Then as a group they’ll do an idea-starter exercise that may lead to a group short story. This short story will be published in, Stories for Children Magazine and each student will get a copy.

 

Book Creation Workshop~* 

This is a great workshop for classrooms. Grenier work with the students in a class to create an anthology of short stories. She will help the students understand the basic techniques authors use to create a story. After which the teacher will email Grenier the students stories to be published as a collection. This is one workshop that really gets kids excited about writing. (Grenier can do indiviual books for each student for a higher price.)


Author Day/Night~

For these presentations to be successful, you should have: A room that can be as dark as possible, A laptop hooked up to a projector, A good screen, or white wall to project onto, An extension cord (The best place for the projector might not be near an outlet.), Good publicity, Lots of kids ready for fun. (The best presentations are during your normal story-time hours.)
Note: If don’t have a projector, or the room's too light, Grenier can do it the old-fashioned way. Reading from the Stories for Children Magazine and her books. (Power Point is just a lot easier for a large group of kids to see.)

 

 

 

 

 

Grant Links for Funding:

If your school would like to host an author visit but you need help with funding, check out these grants for educators.

 

School Grant Writing Tips

 

Educational Enrichment Foundation

 

Verizon Foundation Literacy Grants

 

LeapFrog School-Grant Writing Resources

 

DonorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack.

 

Starbucks Foundation Grants

 

Wells Fargo-Charitable Contributions

For more information about having VS Grenier visit your school, fill-out the form below:

 

 

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