Language Arts Grant Recipient
Grant
money at Emmanuel-St. Michael Lutheran School funds writing workshop
Thank you
so much for the language arts grant! We were able to invite an
author to come to our school. Mrs. Lola Schaefer has written a
variety of books, some of which we have in our school library.
She met with all classes and she was able to give the students many
concrete, usable ideas for making their writing more interesting.
She focused on such things as character sketches and encouraged the
students to “show, not tell” with their writing by using specific,
active verbs. Mrs. Schaefer also had a conference with the
teachers and suggested methods to teach creative writing to the
students. Our students had many positive and enthusiastic
comments in response to Mrs. Schaefer’s presentation. When an
eighth grade boy turned to me and said, “That was great!” I knew that
the writing workshop had been successful. Thank you again for
enabling us to present this program to our students!
Connie A. Hoyer
Emmanuel-St. Michael Lutheran School
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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