Registration is now open for our January four-week live Zoom workshops. In keeping with our goal of helping you to raise confident-writing, avid-reading, word-loving kids, we offer writing, reading comprehension, grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary workshops for grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Each workshop is designed to reinforce existing English Language Arts skills while developing the skills necessary for student success at the next level. In addition to our weekly interactive live Zoom, we provide each student with a PDF workbook, access to a classroom with additional materials, and a weekly assignment with feedback.
Our workshops …
Our writing workshops take grade 3-5 kids from prompt to paragraph, grade 6-8 kids from paragraph to the three-paragraph middle school essay, and grade 9-12 teens from three paragraphs to the five-paragraph high school essay. Similarly, vocabulary for grades 3-5 starts with concepts, for grades 6-8 moves on to root words, and those in grades 9-12 tackle advanced vocabulary. We also offer workshops at each level for reading for understanding, grammar, and punctuation. Take a look at what’s offered in January – and remember that prior students receive a code for $20 off tuition on a new workshop.
January workshops
Vocabulary Workshop for grades 3-5 – This four-week interactive live Zoom workshop uses concepts like able, angry, and door, with their nuances, to expand your child’s vocabulary. Offered in January on Mondays from 4:00-4:45 PT and Wednesdays from 6:00-6:45 ET.
Writing the Middle School Essay for grades 6-8 – This four-week interactive live Zoom workshop takes your kid from the one-paragraph essay of elementary school to the three-paragraph essay required in middle school. We look at the opening sentence, details for a strong body paragraph, and the closing. Offered in January on Mondays from 5:00-6:00 PT and Wednesdays from 7:00-8:00 ET.
Writing the High School Essay for grades 9-12 – This four-week interactive live Zoom workshop steps your teen from subject to topic, introduces how to write three strong body paragraphs, examines the many different types of transitions and which works best for each situation, and focuses on what it takes to bring it all home with a strong closing. We pay special attention to successful strategies for breaking a single body paragraph into three strong body paragraphs and the importance of strong transition sentences. Offered in January on Mondays from 6:15-7:30 PT and Wednesdays from 8:15-9:30 ET.
We hope to see you in one of our workshops!