Storytelling to Writing Residency
Students will learn storytelling tools and strategies that can easily be applied to the writing process, a strategy that has been proven to increase students’ language skills and build their overall comprehension skills, allowing for a fuller and broader language development process. The process begins with the students telling their own personal narratives using prompts and guided imagery. Working with their peers, students identify their stories’ strengths and discuss the natural metaphors, similes, and the power of first and last sentences discovered within the storytelling process. Using this new knowledge, students create story maps and put pen to paper, writing, revising, and polishing their enhanced narratives to be presentation-ready. Workshops' content and length can be modfied to meet schools' needs.
Program available in person, or live online.
Audience Limit: 30
Curriculum Connection: Mass Curriculum Frameworks for English Language Arts and Literacy speaking and Listening Standards Pre-K–5 9 (R.L 1.1 & R.L 1.3): Students will be able to tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details and speak in audibly and coherent sentences.
Minimum of 2 workshops per day.
2 Workshops: $550
Additional Workshops: $220
Residency Workshops: $175-275
Planning fee based upon scope of residency.
Travel: $50 per day
Pricing may vary for weekends/out-of-school time
Processing Fee of $45 added to all contracts
Provisions:
- A teacher in the room to support artist and address student needs.
- 1 reserved parking space
- Writing materials for the students
- Handouts and activity sheets copied as needed.
For a full residency, a minimum of 3 contacts with each class culminating in a sharable project, is recommended. Schools must schedule at least two workshops in a single day. Schools preferring a more introductory residency can schedule a total of one introductory skills workshop for each of their classes with no culminating event.