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Young Author Conference Classroom Demonstrations An Author In-Residence Staff Development Publicity Photos and Info References Contact Lola Schaefer |
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Programs Young Author Conference I speak with students, writer–to-writer, celebrating authorship of their very own books. These visits vary from half-day to full-day events. I am more than happy to work with children of all grades, K-8. Each presentation includes a few strategies that will help them grow as readers or writers, but it is offered in an entertaining manner. Question and answer time can be a part of the program. Other times I am asked to come to a school to inspire young writers and share specific strategies before they write their Young Author Books. These presentations can focus on organization: beginning, middle, and end; story structure; characterization; or plot development. |
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Classroom Demonstrations Three Day Visit Much of my school time is spent working with students in the classroom. I visit the same classrooms for three consecutive days helping students create their own individual pieces of writing. I work directly with the students as a classroom teacher. I model the different engagements of the writing process while working on an original piece of writing at the overhead. The regular classroom teacher and often the other teachers of that grade level sit in the room and write their own pieces with us. We are a community of writers. (Kindergarten demonstrations can be interactive or journal writing, depending on the time of the school year.) |
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One Day Visit Other times I am asked into classrooms for one-day demonstrations. In one hour or one hour and fifteen minute blocks of time, I can introduce strategies for one form of poetry or story organization. I can show children how to write their own cumulative story. Some times I introduce a mini-lesson on one craft element and we practice what we’ve discussed in a short piece of writing.  |
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An Author-in-residence Some schools ask me to visit and read my books to children, discussing how an author works. I explain how I develop and fine tune ideas, write and revise, submit, and work with editors to collaboratively publish a book. These presentations can be for individual classrooms or larger groups. |
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Staff Development Three Day Seminar The Writing Process in the Classroom This program is an intense three-day exploration of the writing cycle and craft elements. Teachers write pieces and work through the process themselves. They learn how to provide powerful mini-lessons and help students with independent revision strategies. |
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Lola M. Schaefer Lola M. Schaefer is an author of more than 185 books for children. She writes narrative non-fiction picture books such as Arrowhawk (Henry Holt, 2004), What’s Up, What’s Down? (Greenwillow Books, 2002), and Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once A Flower Bloomed (Greenwillow Books, 2003) for the younger reader. Her fiction titles include Candlelight Service (Rigby, 1996) and Loose Tooth (HarperCollins I Can Read Book,2004). In addition, Lola has published four books with Scholastic for teachers so they can help their students understand and enjoy the writing process. Teaching Young Writers: Strategies That Work, (Scholastic, 2001) offers purpose, explanation, and demonstration of interactive, journal, poetry, and story writing in grades K-2. Four new books on Teaching the Elements of Craft are in production at Scholastic for release in the near future. Because of her background as an elementary classroom teacher for eighteen years, Lola also authors early-reader biographies and books about the natural world for the school/ library market. She visits many elementary and middle school classrooms each year, both as an author-in-residence and as a writing consultant. Lola M. Schaefer Lola M. Schaefer is an author of children’s books and a writing consultant in elementary and middle schools. After teaching in classrooms for eighteen years, grades K-7, she now provides teachers and students with the tools and insights that cement the use of the writing process. Several years ago, Lola began attending conferences to refine her own writing and realized that there was a wealth of strategies that needed to be shared with students. Blending the qualities of literature and the craft of writing, she offers precise and lively presentations to educators who want to improve the teaching of writing. Lola has been an impassioned presenter for more than twenty years. Today she combines the understandings of current educational research with sound writing techniques so that teachers and students can immediately experience the benefits of successful writing communities in their classrooms. She has also written and published more than 185 books for children in trade, school/library, and classroom markets. Mrs. Schaefer has published four professional books for teachers with Scholastic Professional Books entitled: Teaching Narrative Writing: The Tools That Work For Every Student (grades 4-8), Teaching Young Writers: Strategies That Work (K-2), Ten Writing Lessons for the Overhead (2-4) and Writing Lessons For the Overhead (4-8). She is currently working with Scholastic on a series of four books that will help teachers in Grades 2-4 teach these craft elements: Ideas; Elaboration; Organization; and Voice. Lola is associate faculty at Indiana-Purdue University at Ft. Wayne, teaching graduate education classes on the Writing Process in the Elementary Classroom. |
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| School Presentations, Young Author Conferences, Classroom Writing Demonstration Lessons |
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