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| Can an Aardvark Bark? |
| Grade K-5, 30 minutes, no limit to size of audience |
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| Following a lively, interactive read aloud, students discover the fascinating story, riddled with rejection and inspiration from the most surprising sources, behind Can an Aardvark Bark?—from inspiration to publication. |
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| Creating Nonfiction:
Researching, Writing, and Revising |
| Grades 3-6, 45 minutes, serves up to 6 classrooms |
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| In this popular program based on Summertime Sleepers: Animals that Estivate, Melissa shares her secrets for creating informational writing. Discover her process for choosing a topic, doing research, finding a focus, experimenting with text structure and voice, and improving a piece through revision. |
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| Nonfiction Writing Sprints |
| Grades 4-8, 60 minutes, serves 1 classroom |
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| In this fast-faced, engaging workshop, Melissa writes with students in a series of 10-minute bursts. Following each writing period, students describe the challenges they are facing at that moment and Melissa offers suggestions. Then she shares the challenges she is facing at that moment and models how she might address them. This popular program pulls back the curtain to reveal how professional writers go about their work. |
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| Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep |
| Grades 4-6, 60 minutes, serves 1 classroom |
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| Is your students’ nonfiction writing ho-hum? Do they have trouble choosing and focusing a topic? Do they copy research sources even though they know they shouldn’t? This hands-on workshop shows students how to craft unique, engaging nonfiction by digging deep to find a personal connection to their topic and their approach. |
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| Revising Personal Narratives |
| Grades 4-6, 60 minutes, serves 1 classroom |
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| After discussing common reasons a writer’s first draft needs improvement, students learn and practice an easy four-step method for enriching personal narratives through adding details, improving verb choice, including sensory information, and adding comparisons. |
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