Joan Y. Edwards
Phone Toll Free1-888-9FLOODLE
(1-888-935-6635)
and leave your name and phone number
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about School Presentations
I’ll be happy to create special
programs to meet your curriculum needs.
School Programs
for Classroom Visits or large group for Young Author’s Day
Presentation
by Joan Y. Edwards
Author/Illustrator
of Flip Flap Floodle
Never
Give Up
Use Your
Talents
Everyone
Needs Help Once in a While
Licensed North
Carolina Teacher
Member: Society of Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators
Slides
Shown on wall using my laptop and projector.
1. Read Flip Flap Floodle.
Use
Slides of book.
2. How to Achieve Goals
How Flip Flap Floodle went from a story when I was a
child of 5 years old to a published book 59 years later.
3. Editing – Getting Better
Each time you rewrite or redraw, you get better. Slides showing how illustrations changed
from 2001 to published book in 2004.
4.
Question and Answer Time
5.
Letter to parents explaining the program and order form for
autographed purchase books, dvds, ducks, flutes, or prints.
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Kindergarteners through Third
Graders are given a simpler version of what’s below.
Story – Beginning, Middle, End
Illustrations – Help Tell the
story – direct readers attention to character and important details.
At a presentation for fourth or
fifth graders, I might present as follows:
1. Explain from idea to book – 5 yrs old to 64 yrs old –
59 years. I never gave up. Never Give Up.
a. Inspire them to “Never
Give Up” no matter what – when they do they have the character trait of
perseverance.
2. Read the book using slides projected on wall with my
laptop and multi-media projector.
a. Point out
the ISBN number.
b. Point out
the copyright date.
c. Point out
the dedication page.
3. Getting Better and Better Puts You Closer and Closer
to your Goal.
a. Whole box
of Changed Manuscripts - Tell how I changed the text of the story by
brainstorming other possibilities to make it better.
b. Show how I
changed the illustrations
1. using
lines, colors, and shapes to emphasize where I wanted readers to look first
in each illustration – put their focus where I wanted it.
2. Using
online websites, art programs on educational television, such as Doodle, 3D
Art Teacher on Public Broadcasting System, http://www.ababasoft.com/how_to_draw/
http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/howtodraw.html .
c. Give
students Steps to a Top Selling First Page
Formatting
a. 1
inch margins
b. 12
font Times Roman
c. Last
name – key words from title
d. page
number right hand side at top
e. pages
numbered
f.
contact information Name, address, phone number, email address
First Page Is a Magnet. It must Pull people in
and make them want to turn the page
They try to put the book down and leave it but they have
to pick it up and read it.
They have to read to find out what happens.
First Page
Pull the reader in
1.
Put words that make people care about whether the
main character gets what he wants or not – it makes them want to turn the
page to find out what happens
2.
Have character interact with setting with action
(showing not telling)
Setting is location, place, weather,
time, surroundings, customs, manners, clothing, scenery, weather,
geography, buildings, furniture, items for recreation, food, shelter,
clothing, light, water, animals, and methods of communication, methods of
transportation are all part of setting.
3.
Show what they want but can’t have or don’t have
for one reason or another - conflict, challenge, problem (This is the first
part of the plot)
PLOT – Action towards goal
What does your character want or need? What keeps them
from getting it? Conflict, challenge, problem What are they willing to do
to get it?
Action toward goal
What does main character do to solve the problem?
Three tries
1st doesn’t work and complicates matters.
2nd doesn’t work and complicates matters to
the lowest ebb
3rd action works and resolves problem.
Climax
Resolution – Reader feels satisfied and can retell the
story to someone highlighting the main characters, setting, and four parts
of plot.
Only describe the part of the environment that makes a
difference to the character getting what they want or keeping them from
getting what they want.
CHARACTER – Show emotional
struggles that goes through the mind of your character and with other
characters. Show their human flaws. This helps readers care about them and
want to read to find out the choices they make.
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Testimonials
for Presentations
See and Hear Kindergarten Teacher, Natalie Sanchez and Second Grade Teacher, Dan
Barber rave about Flip and me on video (avi).
Rave
Video Review of My Flip Flap Floodle Presentation (avi)
Letter from First Grade Teacher, Jeannette
Carafano
May 13,2008
Dear Mrs. Edwards:
Our first grade class so enjoyed
your visit to share your book Flip Flap Floodle! The book is full of
simple charm and repetitive phrases that the children responded to
immediately. They've been chanting, "Flip Flap floodIe, floodle,
floodle" ever since your visit!
…Read whole letter Jeannette
Carafano’s Testimonial 2008
Very Well Done! I enjoyed how interactive the
presentation was --- the kids were really engaged and
interested.
---Mr. Dan Barber,
2nd Grade Teacher, Idlewild
Elementary School,
Charlotte, NC
April 24, 2007
I loved how you showed your thinking/revision process
to the children. At this age they think writing is a
one
step process.
…Mrs. Jennifer
Smolias, 3rd Grade Teacher, Idlewild
Elementary School,
Charlotte, NC
May 1, 2007
We really enjoyed having you come. Thank you for
sharing with us.
…Mrs. Natalie
Sanchez, Kindergarten Teacher,
Idlewild Elementary School,
Charlotte, NC
May 1, 2007
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