So, the Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop is a kit. There’s a book, a manual, sort of a teacher’s guide. There are 20 videos of me sort of sharing with teachers and students how to go about some of the activities and sharing some of the tools that I’ve learned and picked up along the way.
The Scholastic program is geared towards students K-8. That’s the way — because that’s sort of their market, but it works for high school. I mean I did the first 40 schools in high school. Yes. So, the way we did it with K-3 is that we trained the teachers how to teach the writing and the publishing workshop. And the kids were writing borrowed poems where, you know, you take a poem like a William Carlos Williams.
This is just to say I’ve eaten the plums that were in the refrigerator, which you were probably saving for dessert. They were so — you know, that poem. And so the kids substitute their words. This is just to say I have eaten the oranges that were in the cupboard. You know, so K and one and two, they write borrowed poems or they write community poems where they write a poem together.
The publishing portion, the students love brainstorming titles, coming up with titles for their book. They may not be able to design a cover, but they can certainly have input in the cover concepts and they can sketch it out. And so teachers end up doing a little bit more work for the lower grades, but I’ve seen it work.
