Invite a children's book writer who holds a masters in elementary education, was selected as a Master Teacher for the National Education Association/BetterLesson's Master Teacher Project in 2014, and has eleven plus years teaching experience in grades 1-5 into your school!
School Visits and Presentations Overview
CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS:
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Creating Magical & Memorable Characters!
Grade Level: 1 through 5 Duration: 50 minutes In this inspiring and interactive presentation, Katrina will show the audience a behind-the-scenes look at how a book is born, from the first magical spark of an idea to becoming a published book. Young writers will gain knowledge and perspective of how they can start developing their own writing habits to become better writers in and out of the classroom. Then, she’ll engage young readers with a mystery treasure chest of items related to her main character of her Teeny Houdini Chapter book series and the plot of the books to build excitement about literacy, encourage authentic prediction making, and build background knowledge before reading her book. After reading an excerpt, the audience will participate in a collaborative discussion to connect with the story and character. Finally, Katrina will show students her character development process, and help them to create some fun characters of their own. Students will walk away with a “magical hat” full of tricks for creating a memorable, magical character, and the inspiration to write a story(ies) for their new character! Happy Book Birthday to ONE HUG, GRANDPA GRUMPS, or TEENY HOUDINI! Grade Level: Pre-K through 2 Duration: 40 minutes It’s a book birthday! What does that mean? Katrina will engage young readers with a mystery treasure chest of items related to the book to build excitement about literacy, encourage authentic prediction making, and build background knowledge before reading her book. After reading, the audience will participate in a collaborative discussion to connect with the story, and will reread the story and illustrations for different purposes as book detectives. The presentation will end with a fun/inclusive whole group activity. WRITING WORKSHOP: Revise Your Writing Into a Pot Of Gold! Audience: Grades 2-Adult (available for conferences or classrooms) Audience Size: maximum 30 Duration: 1-2 hours Preparation: Audience should have a (writing) work in progress to bring to the workshop In this hands on workshop, I will share with writers the revision process that I use to turn my manuscripts from dust to gold. Using the power of productive critiquing and my RAINBOW REVISION technique, audience members will learn and then apply peer critique and revision skills to improve their own writing. In this workshop, revision has never been so collaborative, eye-opening, fun, or colorful! Audience will leave with techniques (and a resource) they can apply over and over again to their writing process. |
Cozy Up with ONE HUG!
Audience Level: Baby through Pre-K Duration: 30 minutes Bring your favorite snuggle buddy to this cozy story time! Katrina will engage young readers with a mystery treasure chest of items related to the book to build excitement about literacy before reading. Then, she’ll read aloud the joyful and rhythmic ONE HUG. Finally, young readers will be invited to re-enact hugs from the book with their favorite stuffed animals. The presentation will end with a fun song/dance about hugs! From Baby Draft to One Big Book! Grade Level: 2 through 3 Duration: 50 minutes In this inspiring and interactive presentation, Katrina will show the audience a behind-the-scenes look at how a book is born, from the first seed of an idea to becoming a published book. Young writers will gain knowledge and perspective of how they can start developing their own writing habits to become better writers in and out of the classroom. Then, she’ll engage young readers with a mystery treasure chest of items related to the book to build excitement about literacy, encourage authentic prediction making, and build background knowledge before reading her book. After reading, the audience will participate in a collaborative discussion to connect with the story, and the presentation will end with a fun/inclusive whole group activity. Nothing Grumpy About Writing! Grade Level: 1 through 5 Duration: 50 minutes In this inspiring and interactive presentation, Katrina will show the audience a behind-the-scenes look at how a book is born, from the first seed of an idea to becoming a published book. Young writers will gain knowledge and perspective of how they can start developing their own writing habits to become better writers in and out of the classroom. Then, she’ll engage young readers with a mystery treasure chest of items related to the book to build excitement about literacy, encourage authentic prediction making, and build background knowledge before reading her book. After reading, the audience will participate in a collaborative discussion to connect with the story, and use the format of the story to brainstorm their own story beginnings. Students will walk away feeling inspired to write their own fun stories! BE THE AUTHOR OF YOUR OWN LIFE! Grade level: 1-5 Duration: 50 minutes Be the Author of Your Life is an interactive presentation showing how Katrina’s life inspires her books. Using a treasure chest of Katrina’s personal items, photographs, and personal writing journals, children gain knowledge and perspective of how a book is made, and how they can start developing their own writing habits to become better writers. Afterwards, Katrina reads one of her books, answers questions, and ends the presentation with a fun/inclusive activity. |
ADULT PROGRAMS:
WRITING WORKSHOP: Revise Your Writing Into a Pot Of Gold!
Audience: Grades 2-Adult (available for conferences or classrooms)
Audience Size: maximum 30
Duration: 1-2 hours
Preparation: Audience should have a (writing) work in progress to bring to the workshop
In this hands on workshop, I will share with writers the revision process that I use to turn my manuscripts from dust to gold. Using the power of productive critiquing and my RAINBOW REVISION technique, audience members will learn and then apply peer critique and revision skills to improve their own writing. In this workshop, revision has never been so collaborative, eye-opening, fun, or colorful! Audience will leave with techniques (and a resource) they can apply over and over again to their writing process.
DEVELOPING YOUNG WRITERS
Grade Level: Adult
Duration: 30 minutes
I will share my writing journey, the writing process for making a book, and how to find a writing routine that works for you. Then, we'll transition to think about the budding writers we teach/parent. How do we get them excited about learning? How can they develop writing habits that stick in the classroom and at home? How do we get them invested in the writing process? You will leave with ideas, strategies, and resources to take back to class.
ADDITIONAL AVAILABLE PROGRAMS FOR CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS:
- Pacing, Page Turns, and Perfect Rhythm: A Hands-On Workshop to Transform your Picture Book Manuscript into an Incredible Page-Turner
- Lyrical Picture Books - Secrets to Make them Sing & Sell
- How to Read like a Writer - The Art of Studying Picture books
- Revise Your Writing Into A Pot of Gold! A Hands-On, Craft Focused Workshop
- Writing When You Have Zero Time or Energy to do so
- Writing Across Genres
- Navigating Agent-Author Relationships or Agent-Author-Editor
- The End...Or is it? Delivering Picture Book Endings that W.O.W!
- Crafting the Perfect Match Between Words and Illustrations in Picture Books
- Thinking Visually When You’re Not An Illustrator
SCHEDULING A VISIT
*I want my audience to walk away inspired. If you have specific program needs or topics to address, I am willing to adapt a presentation to meet your needs! Please contact me through my website http://www.katrinamoorebooks.com to discuss details and set up a visit.
HONORARIUM
*While standard rates apply, author fee varies depending on length of visit, number of presentations, travel expenses, special considerations, etc. Please contact me to set up a visit tailored to your needs.
HONORARIUM
*While standard rates apply, author fee varies depending on length of visit, number of presentations, travel expenses, special considerations, etc. Please contact me to set up a visit tailored to your needs.
For Young Writers...
Here's a Writing Workshop Prompt I created for the Author's Everywhere Youtube Channel! In this 6 minute workshop, I'll help you boost your creativity and get ideas for writing by thinking about: "WHAT COULD GO WRONG?"
I had the honor of joining one of my author heroes, Grace Lin, on her Kids Ask Authors podcast to answer the question, "What books have you been reading when you were 7 years old?" Have a listen!