Let’s have some fun with words! Let’s write with Papa Stevie! Scroll down for workshop descriptions and visit the pricing page for drastically reduced fees.

Steven Krasner has been performing his interactive, hands-on and collaborative “Nudging the Imagination” classroom writing workshops in person or virtually since 1985, focusing on engaging and exciting students about the writing process and aligning with the curriculum.

In all of his K-8 grade-appropriate writing workshops, Steve stresses the use of details, the ease of revision, great descriptive word choices and the inclusion of dialogue in helping students create the best writing pieces in any genre.

Papa Stevie, as he likes to be called, enthusiastically guides students in their creation of Narratives, Mysteries, Tall Tales, Newspaper Articles, Video Magazine Scripts, Mystery Dinner Theater Scripts and whole-school Chapter Books of Cliff-hangers, all of which can tie into content across the curriculum.

Students in Grades 1-3, for instance, brainstorm for characters and a setting as Papa Stevie, an award-winning children’s writer, guides them in generating a narrative in a classroom atmosphere or distance learning platform in which there is no such thing as a bad idea, giving the students permission to contribute ideas for the story he records on his laptop.

In Grades 4 and up, featuring the same animated style and his trusty laptop, Steve leads students through the writing process to create mysteries (never a murder mystery!) and tall tales in addition to developing mystery dinner theater and video magazine scripts and cliff-hangers.

Also, drawing on his 33 years of sports writing experience at the Providence (RI) Journal and ESPN, including 22 years covering the Boston Red Sox on a daily basis, Steve introduces students to his alter ego, Floyd Flapjacque. This writing workshop teaches students how to ask questions and take notes in addition to introducing them to different ways of looking at the same information for different types of stories.