Invite author Melissa Taylor to your school! As a former award-winning elementary teacher, she loves inspiring and connecting with kids!
In-Person School Visits and Virtual Visits
Melissa offers both in-person and virtual visits, presenting to grades preschool through fifth grade.
Melissa Taylor’s Author School Visit Programs:
VIRTUAL OR IN-PERSON (COLORADO)
All school visits include an interactive read aloud of Tova’s Sweet Solution. After that, she can focus on any of the following:
Problem & Solution Storytelling
Tova’s story focuses on a problem, trial and error, and a solution. All stories have problems and solutions. Let’s use that structure to brainstorm and invent our own stories!
Write What You Know
Melissa will share how she wrote something from her own life and guide writers to do the same!
Kindness & Growth Mindset
Melissa will use her many drafts of Tova’s Sweet Solution to encourage students to understand trying, failing, and trying again…growth mindset, which Tova also exemplifies in the story.
Word Play
Melissa will use Tova’s Sweet Solution to share how writers invent new words, then guide students in a fun storytelling and word play activity.
“Students were talking about Melissa and her book, Tova’s Sweet Solution, throughout the day. She was enthusiastic and interacted with the students throughout her presentation, keeping them engaged.”
– Judy Ripke, St. John’s Lutheran School Librarian
“Although virtual for a large group, she used creative strategies to keep the students engaged. I enjoyed the mix of reading her book with discussion and writing activities embedded.”
– Kristen Glover, Librarian, Big Hollow School District