The following courses are currently available to register for.

Children can be Authors Too!
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Children Can be Authors Too! Writing Seminar

Students will engage in the writing process by writing a short story. Each month they will receive a short manual and activities that help them learn and apply planning, writing, editing, spelling and other strategies and tools to help them create a well developed story. Throughout this course students will receive feedback on each stage of their writing and will receive a final edit of their story.

Students will also receive publishing tips and be guided on how to send a story to a publishing house. After completing this course students will also become eligible to be published in Young Writers as Authors, an anthology of children’s stories published annually by The Children’s Academy Inc. Many young writers have been published using the strategies presented in this course.

Students may begin this course at any time during the year in the comfort of their own home. The course includes six units, sent each month or at the completion of each assignment or unit. Students will be able to work at their own level and pace.

This program will include one mail interview and a pre and post informal writing assessment by the instructor/author to get to know the students writing preferences, strengths and weaknesses, style and writing needs. Each of the six units will be sent to the student’s home. Once students complete and mail their assignment they will receive personal feedback and direction and be sent a new manual/unit. The last assignment will require that a student type their story into a word processor and send the story through e-mail to be edited by the instructor/author and will receive instructions and directions on how to send their story to a publishing house.

Materials: Each student will receive a series of six short manuals on the following topics:

• Creating, Developing and Choosing Ideas
• Create a Character
• Planning and Organizing a Story
• What to Remember when Writing the Rough Draft
• Editing and Revising Strategies
• Preparing a Story for Publishing Houses

Instruction

• Detailed feedback on each completed assignment and each step of the writing process.
• An informal pre-writing assessment to determine current writing level.
• An informal post short story writing assessment, highlighting strengths and weaknesses.
• E-mail support, if needed, while completing course.
• A final edit of story and suggestions for future writing.
• A list of twenty children’s Publishing Houses and instruction on how to approach the market.

Kim Palmer

Kim has completed her Bachelor of Education Degree and Master of Education Degree with a specialization in Literacy. She has taught in the Public School System and with the Calgary Learning Centre helping students read and write both individually and in large groups. She is currently the owner of a tutoring company and a small publishing company and facilitates writing workshop camps annually. She is the author of a children’s picture book series, Tammy and her Jammies and a literacy education book, Let the Children be Heard; Helping Children find Voice though Reading and Writing and Dialogue.

A student will benefit from this program:

• If they are self motivated and wish to break into the publishing market.
• If they have difficulty writing or wish to improve their short story writing skills.
• If they are part of a home schooling or independent learning program.
• If they are enrolled in upper elementary or junior high grades.
• If they require remediation or enhancement when learning story writing at school.
• If they wish to become writers and authors in their future career.

Cost:

$897.00 at time of Registration
or 6 Monthly Payments of $149.50

Download, print and submit the Registration Form (Adobe PDF Format)

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To register or for further information please call Kim at (403) 807-7502 or E-mail: kimpalmer@telus.net.

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