I can entertain kids. No problem. Give me your bored, your skeptical and your reluctant and I can entertain them. But an author visit is not just a live animation puppet show; it should be a learning experience. I've been at this for 16 years and have (through some hard knocks) developed a do's and (please please) don'ts list of guidelines to make a visit as beneficial and pain free as possible.
Sara Holbrook
Pictured below is the performance poet, Sara Holbrook, at work in the classroom at Parley Coburn Elementary School. Sara provides standards based writing across the curriculum and improves oral presentation skills and reading fluency with poetry performance. She has been writing for most of her life and shared her passion and her skills with the fortunate students here in the GST BOCES region.
To learn more about Sara, check out her web-page http://www.saraholbrook.com/ and blog, http://saraholbrook.blogspot.com/
