Writers Workshop: Building a Power Tower

Laura Langdon

Build students’ writing skills as they construct a tower of literary devices that will prove the sky’s the limit with their imagination! Young writers’ creativity will be challenged as literary devices (personification, simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, sensory imagery, symbolism) are addressed one session at a time. Students will create an original piece each week, then assemble blocks of the literary devices into a culminating colorful tower, using their writings as bases. Get ready to take plenty of photos of the successful literary engineers and their proud smiles!

 

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*This program can be booked as one workshop (teacher would select the literary device) or a series of workshops. If all literary devices are to be addressed, instructor would need 7 sessions.

 

To schedule this program please contact us at 816-531-4022 or by email at booknow@kcya.org

 

Grade Levels: 2,3,4,5

Fees: $127 single, $109 each for 2 or more on the same day / The break between workshops must not exceed 90 minutes to receive the reduced rate.

Program Length: 45-50 min

Requirements: Notebook paper, pencils, crayons/markers, photocopies of instructor’s handouts, glue, strips of colorful card stock, grocery sacks for storing cubes. Student desktops, place for students to store handouts and card stock such as a folder, portfolio, cubby, paper grocery sack, etc.

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