Community+Outreach

= Eastern Michigan Writing Project Reaches Out =

How to Help Your Child with Writing: A Workshop for Parents
==== This 90-minute workshop is for parents and caregivers who want to learn more about how to encourage their student writers in grades K – 12 at home. We’ll explore family activities that promote writing as well as effective ways to respond to children about their writing. ====

Cost: $400 + mileage for presenters, if applicable


Family Literacy Initiative Gears up for a Busy Spring Karen Watts, TC ‘93 There may only be a few weeks left of school, but Family Literacy is packing a lot in between now and June. We have two Family Writing Projects continuing into May in Wayne-Westland, Family Writing Workshops scheduled in Hamtramck, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, and a parent workshop in Hamtramck to round out the year. At our April 27th workshop at West Dickinson Elementary in Hamtramck, children and their parents worked side-by-side to brainstorm, draw, write and share their memories and experiences in their favorite play places. After listening to stories read by Chelsea Hugan about treehouses and blanket forts, students brainstormed some of their favorite places to play and then focused in on a writing topic by sketching their favorite hangouts. Students and parents wrote poems, descriptions, stories, and reminiscences as our youngest writers drew or wrote single words. MORE = Inkstains Summer Writing Camps =

There’s Something About Inkstains . ..
By Kim Pavlock TC’92 ===It’s amazing to consider: twenty-five middle school students and thirty-nine high school students devoting an entire week of their summer vacation to writing, writing, and more writing on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in the middle of July! === ===Monday through Friday each week, Inkstains instructors Sean Eldon, Alli Kaplan, Natalie Tomlin, and Amy Van Horn engaged students in fun and thought-provoking writing activities, provided encouraging feedback, and created a positive environment in which the students felt comfortable and wanted to share their writing. === ===Year after year, student writers return to Inkstains, and year after year, our instructors return to Inkstains. What is it that they find so appealing and energizing about this particular writing camp? ===


 * //I really enjoyed the poetry slam, I honestly never would have tried something like that outside of camp and I absolutely loved it. The people I have met at Inkstains have become my best friends and I can always go to them about any writing I do outside of camp as well.// **
 * //A big plus about camp this past summer was all the people there. The people running the camp who all of the campers genuinely felt cared about by, the fellow campers who made the atmosphere so fun, exciting and safe, and the people on and around campus who made for great writing prompts. Another plus was the ability to have our work published in an anthology. The anthology is a great way to see everyone else's writing and to keep it in a professional looking book for years to come.// **

//Inkstains was great! I really liked being outdoors a lot! And I liked how we were always with different people and different sized groups!//
= Preparing for College Writing =

NEW! Preparing for High School Writing: A Workshop for Teens
Facilitated by writing instructors at EMU, this workshop is designed for teens who wonder about what high school and college writing will be like and how they can get ready it. We will discuss what it takes to be a successful writer by looking more closely at the writer’s C.R.A.F.T. and exploring a variety of activities and genres. One 90-minute session Open to 25 students Folders filled with ideas, writing activities, and resources are included. Cost: $400 + mileage for presenters, if applicable

NEW! How to Help Your Teen Prepare for College Writing
This workshop is for parents and caregivers who would like to learn more about what teens can expect to write in college and how they can prepare for the writing experiences that they’ll encounter there. We will explore a variety of activities that promote writing as well as effective ways to respond to adolescents about their writing. One 90-minute session Unlimited number of participants Folders filled with ideas, writing activities, and resources are included. Cost: $400 + mileage for presenters, if applicable

For more information on scheduling and pricing, please contact Kimberly Pavlock, EMWP Youth and Family Programs Coordinator, at kpavlock@emich.edu. April 2011