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ASU in the News Publication Name: Roswell Daily Record, Roswell, NM Market Name: Albuquerque, NM Publication Date: 2008-01-17 00:00:00.000 Frequency: Daily Circulation: 11600 Market Rank: 44 Title: ASU’s Storad shares writing secrets with young stude... Byline: VANESSA BEAUMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER Favorability: Positive 56
make Author shares writing secrets with young students^ Vanessa Beauman Record Staff Writer With an encouraging smile and upbeat note in his voice writer Conrad J Storad spilled the secrets of good book writing to Dexter Ele mentary School students Tuesday and Wednesday at the school s library He start ed by providing them with the essential first step in writing a book Think Storad said to a group of preschoolers and third graders Wednesday afternoon You have to have some ideas That s how you start to write a book Storad then explained the role of edi tors publishers and illustra tors — people needed to the idea of a book a reality Storad s educational back ground includes undergradu ate degrees in journalism and environmental science as well as a master s degree in sci ence journalism from Arizona State University s~~WaTter Cronkite School of Journal ism and Mass Communica tion He has experience as a reporter editor and general manager for the Barberton Herald newspaper in Ohio Storad currently works for ASU as director of the Office of Research Publications He writes and edits the ASU Research Magazine is the founding editor of Chain Reaction magazine and is dedicated to writing non fic tion children s books that he hopes will encourage children to read and be interested in science Roswell Daily Record Circulation: 11600 DMA: Albuquerque, NM But Wednesday afternoon all that mattered to the preschoolers and third graders was how Penny Pack Rat was going to survive the harsh desert environment to find a shiny spoon The cen tral character in Storad s Desert Night Shift A Pack Rat Story Penny s quest is meant to teach children about the desert and one of its noc turnal creatures the pack rat Children s books are my fun job on the side said Storad who has written over a dozen children s or young adult books He calls them non fiction because their sub jects are based on real crea tures My intent is to help chil dren learn that reading is fun he said Storad said sometimes children ask him why he does not write fiction but he finds his current genre too much fun to let go I like to write about the real world Storad said The world around us is an inter esting place You just need to slow down and take a look Storad said that as a visit ing author he has been to eight states more than 700 schools and estimates that in the 10 years he s been travel ing the country with his work he has spoken to 700 000 children This is his second visit to Dexter Nancy Miles elementary © Copyright 01/17/2008 Roswell Daily Record Cision USA, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Unlicensed Reproduction, Sale or Republication Prohibited. City: Roswell State: NM librarian for Dexter Elemen tary said Storad s visit and input into book writing came just in time for the school s students who are in the process of authoring books themselves Miles said children pre school through third grade are writing books as a class proj ect Fourth and fifth graders will be writing a book individ ually Students will provide their own illustrations and be editors to each other s work Miles called Storad s advice about book writing invaluable She said Storad s visit as well as many other art music and drama programs at Dexter Ele mentary are made possible through funding received from the State Fine Arts dollars This funding is available to elementary schools throughou the state of New Me xlcc through an applicatior process Account: 2565G0 Date: 01/17/2008 Pub Num: NMD180 Section/Page: A2 Page Count: 1 / 1 RefNo: 333735
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