Cost!
Some authors' charges include...
ü Travel fees for flight, hotels, rental vehicles, and meals.
ü Average program fee of $1200 for full-day canned programs or $800 for half-day canned programs with maximum student counts at an average of less than 50.
ü Required off-campus or catered meals
ü Required program minimums.
ü Required product purchases.
Reji Laberje Author Programs requires...
ü NO TRAVEL FEES within less than 50 miles of Reji’s home base and a simple defrayment cost that can be split among multiple organizations for further distances.
ü Programs that start at just $50, are personally selected, and are geared toward smaller audiences up to large assemblies including a full student body.
ü No need to provide meals.
ü A single program or multiple programs as fits your budget.
ü Fundraising possibilities and special savings packages offered.
Set-Up!
Some authors expect...
ü Schools to inform students of how to get the authors books on their own.
ü Schools to provide presentation materials ranging from easels, to printed paperwork, to author writing utensils, and more.
ü Specific ahead-of-time learning, based on teacher research and time to be done with all participating students.
ü Schools to set up and decorate the presentation space, sometimes with a purchased "set-up" package.
With Reji Laberje Author Programs you have...
ü A provided send-home letter for every student 1-2 weeks ahead and a provided send-home letter for every student 1-2 days ahead of time.
ü Only to provide the space, a power outlet, your personalized schedule, and the students. Reji brings her own sound system, her own projector, provides all paperwork, and has her own flip charts, visuals, and slideshows.
ü An author who believes it is her job to do the teaching when she comes. You will receive a checklist upon scheduling telling you just how little you'll need and including suggestions that you are welcome to (but not required to) use with your organization.
ü To provide only approximately 30 minutes for Reji to do her own set-up.
Approach!
Reji Laberje uses the FULL-SENSORY Teaching Method.
In learning, your students will experience:
ü Seeing - visual aids include flip charts, slideshows, writing in front of group, building charts together, and watching classmates.
ü Hearing - a combination of music, storytelling, oral instruction, and selecting volunteers to answer questions.
ü Doing - Numerous opportunities exist for students to participate in the demonstrations to create scenes, apply principles, write, and learn under the guise of FUN and GAMES!
Experiencing takes place through Reji's unique "Six Senses of Description":
ü Throughout the demonstrations, students will often participate in activities targeted at focusing their energies on seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, or their thoughts and emotions. By including each of the senses in the presentation, the lessons taught are more likely to penetrate, fully affect, and be remembered - allowing for later application in classrooms and in life. If lessons taught are forgotten quickly, then they have not served their purpose.
In applying, your students will experience:
ü Teaching - Reji Laberje books are used to present an idea. The students are provided with paperwork with which to follow along.
ü Exemplifying - Students have demonstrations of the taught lessons through exercises and literary references. (Literary references are not just Reji Laberje works as Reji wants the students to leave with a connection, not a commercial!)
ü Practicing - In addition to the follow-along materials, students are given take-to-the-classroom (and take-to-LIFE) ideas to be able to use the taught concepts in all subjects.
Personalization!
Mix-and-match the BEST program to meet YOUR needs!
Three Full-Assembly Programs:
ü What's Your Story - Early Education to Grade 3
ü Backwards Book - Grade 2 to Grade 6
ü Wonder Kids - Grade 4 to Grade 8
Two Writers' Workshops
ü Sequence Poems - Early Education to Grade 4
ü The Six Senses and the Four 'S'es - Grade 2 to Grade 8
Six Specialty Workshops
ü Read-to-Write – Active Reading, Story Formula, Why Writers Read
ü The Idea Box – Story starts and Writers’ Block Ends
ü Drawing Fire – Creating Climax and Sensory Writing
ü What’s in a Word? – Living Thesaurus, Dialogue by Doing, Word Creation
ü Story Elements – Character, Mystery, Magic, and Dialogue
ü Wrap Session – Transitions, Editing, Career Paths
The Mini-Program
ü Can be specialized for a scouting unit.
ü Customizable for small groups.
The Seminars
ü Write-A-Book – 9 Part Inception to Completion Fiction Book Process
ü Educators’ Seminar – 5 Organization Selected Workshops plus Teaching Tools
Follow-Up!
All for free...
ü In addition to numerous gift give-aways during the programs, EVERY student will receive a free bookmark.
ü Students receive all program follow-along materials, with no reproduction required by the host organization.
ü Teachers receive specific follow-up material including blanks of the student provided materials, answer keys where necessary, recommended reading lists, items that are reproducible for the classroom, and informational material.
ü Reji's book club materials are available free to any school, group, or organization that chooses to host an assembly. These include games, activites, informational material, active-reading exercises, and more.
PLUS...
ü Featured Reji Laberje titles will ALWAYS be donated to organizations that hold assembly programs so that interested students and teachers will have the stories available for checkout.
ü Reji is an internationally distributed author available through order at all major bookstores and web resources, including Amazon and her own website. Any (optional) personal or organization product purchases that arise after her visit that have not been fulfilled on-site can easily be taken care of through these secure, trusted sellers.
The Real Question Is Why NOT Reji Laberje Author Programs?