Dear Families,
Congratulations! This April, your child or teen will take part in an incredible thing called Script Frenzy. It's an international writing event in which participants attempt the creatively daring feat of writing an entire script (film, television, stage, or comic book) in one month.
We'd like to take a minute tell you why we think Script Frenzy is so great for students.
Some of the skills Script Frenzy builds:
- Fluency: Writing so much in so little time boosts students’ proficiency in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and will help them approach future writing assignments with ease and confidence.
- Confidence: When creating so much text in such a short period of time, students realize just how much they can accomplish when they put their minds to it. Script Frenzyleaves young writers asking themselves, “What’s next?”
- Creativity: Creating characters, situations, dialogue, and even whole planets from scratch helps kids think, but it also teaches them how to apply their fanciful ideas to a full project.
- Time Management: Our curriculum teaches students how to tackle a huge project by breaking it down into manageable bites!
Check out a complete guide to the ins-and-outs of the process here:
A little background on our website:
NaNoWriMo has two programs. Our adult challenge is hosted at scriptfrenzy.org, where all writers (13 and over) have the goal of writing a 100-page scriptl. Our Young Writers Program (YWP) is designed for K-12 classrooms taking part as a group, and for 17-and-under novelists writing solo. The YWP allows participants to set their own reasonable, yet challenging, page-count goals.
The YWP site has vibrant, active forums where kids and teens from all over the world gather and support each other. Participation in the forums is not required, but many find the community helpful in maintaining their page count and enthusiasm for the project. The YWP forums are viewable only by other young participants,educators, and Script Frenzy staff members. We monitor and moderate all posts, and inappropriate content is never allowed.
The YWP site also has FrenzyMail, a private message function that allows participants in the adult program and YWP to send messages to fellow authors without divulging their personal email addresses.
If you have any questions about Script Frenzy and your child or teen, please feel free to get in touch with us!
Enthusiastically,
