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Creative Literacy Workshop Series

All young people are creative. They express their creative genius in a variety of ways. Our youth are imaginative writers, talented artists, gifted speakers, lovely singers, hilarious comedians, amazing visionaries, great actors, exceptional dancers, and brilliant poets.

Meet comic book creators, authors, musicians and filmmakers Mike Johnson and Hotep for the most exciting youth literacy workshop ever!

The Creative Literacy 
Workshop Activities

We show students how the power of literacy can be used to write:  

Novels

Comic books

Songs- CDs

Movies- DVDs

Games

Photo books

Coloring books

Poetry books

Plays

Reading Skills Taught:

1. Identifying and analyzing setting, characterization
2. Using dialogue and description
3. Theme
4. Making judgments and inferences
5. Identifying similarities and differences
6. Locating facts
7. Differentiating Fact and Opinion
8. Identifying and analyzing conflict and resolution
9. Using common graphic features (charts, maps, diagrams, captions, and illustrations).
10. Chronological order, logical order,
11. Distinguishing cause from effect
12. Identifying and analyzing main ideas, supporting ideas, and supporting details.
13. Making perceptive and well-developed connections
14. Relating new information to prior knowledge and experience

Vocabulary Skills Taught:

1. Acquiring and understanding new vocabulary
2. Using new vocabulary correctly in reading and writing
3. Incorporates new words into oral and written language
4. Determining the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues
5. Determining the meaning of unfamiliar words using knowledge of common
6. roots, suffixes, and prefixes
7. Identifies the meaning of common prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-)
8. Identifies the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases
9. Identifies playful uses of language (e.g., puns, jokes, palindromes)
10. Recognizing and using words with multiple meanings (e.g., sentence, school)
11. and determines which meaning is intended from the context of the sentence.
12. Identifying the meaning of the terms antonym, synonym, and homophone

Writing Skills Taught:

1. Including sensory details and concrete language to develop plot and character
2. Developing complex characters through actions describing the motivation of characters and character conversation
3. Raises the level of language using appropriate strategies (word choice)
4. Using a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings
5. Planning and drafting independently and resourcefully
6. Revising manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus of writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.
7. Editing to correct errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar

English/Grammar Skills Taught:

1. Understanding and controlling the rules of the English language
2. Realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
3. Identifying and using the eight parts of speech (e.g., noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction, preposition, interjection).
4. Expanding or reducing sentences (e.g., adding or deleting modifiers, combining or revising sentences).
5. Correctly using and identifying verb phrases and verb tenses
6. Varying the sentence structure by kind (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences and functional fragments), order, and complexity (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex)
7. Using correct mechanics (e.g., apostrophes, quotation marks, comma use in compound sentences, paragraph indentations) and correct sentence structure (e.g., elimination of sentence fragments and run-ons)

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