Award Winning Author N. L. Sharp Will Present to Elementary Students at Tassel March 1.

by Betty Bricker

February 22, 2010

To kick off Read Across America Week, Award-winning children’s author and educational writing consultant N. L. Sharp will present to elementary and middle school students on Monday, March 1 at the Tassel.

An elementary teacher for more than twenty years, Sharp believes that writing is a craft that any one, of any age, can learn. Through storytelling, modeling, and audience participation, students and teachers alike will be motivated and encouraged to find their writers’ voices and turn their unique ideas into effective pieces of writing.
TITLES / AWARDS BY N. L. SHARP:
THE FLOWER GIRL / THE RING BEAR: A FLIP-OVER BOOK (Prairieland Press, 2010)
EFFIE’S IMAGE (Prairieland Press, 2005)
*Nebraska’s Golden Soweer nominee (K-3), 2007-2008 school year
*Learning Magazine’s 2006 Teachers’ Choice Award Winner
*Nebraska’s Center for the Book 2005 Honor Book in the Children’s Category
*Accelerated Reader™ Title
THE RING BEAR (Dageforde Publishing, Inc., 2003)
*Nebraska’s Center for the Book 2004 winner in the Children’s Category
TODAY I’M GOING FISHING WITH MY DAD (Boyds Mills Press, 1993)
*Nebraska’s Golden Sower nominee.

The schedule will be as follows:
8:30 - Kindergarten
9:30 - 1st & 2nd Grade
10:30 - 3rd & 4th Grade
Lunch Break
1:00 - 5th & 6th Grade
2:15 - 7th & 8th Grade
Please come and join us at the Tassel.

A special thank you to the Elementary PTO and the Middle School PTO for sponsoring this presentation.