Kidquake 2020 is Virtual!
3200 K-5 students
2 days of assemblies & workshops
with acclaimed children's authors
This event inspires my young readers and writers to continue their love of books and writing." —Kidquake teacher attendee
Kidquake
Our 2020 Program
Kidquake has gone virtual! Teachers sign up your students below to come to live Zoom events with authors, illustrators, poets, and bookmakers. Teachers can also enter to win a free copy of an author’s new book (due to Covid restrictions, we aren't able to supply each student with a free book in 2020).
Kidquake has gone virtual! Teachers sign up your students below to come to live Zoom events with authors, illustrators, poets, and bookmakers. Teachers can also enter to win a free copy of an author’s new book (due to Covid restrictions, we aren't able to supply each student with a free book in 2020).
Schedule:
Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Teacher Activities
All live programing is free and will also be recorded for later free access. Live sign-up opens September 2 and is first-come, first-serve. Zoom links given to teachers to distribute. We can accommodate live attendance up to 900 students and their teachers per presentation.
Grades K-2
- Friday, October 9 from 10am-10:20am with author Meera Sriram presenting her book, A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India, and then 10:20am-10:40am participate in a poetry writing demonstration by poet Florencia Milito (CA Poets in the Schools).
- Friday, October 16 from 10am-10:20am author/editor Keila V. Dawson presents No Voice Too Small: Young Americans Making History, and then from 10:20am-10:40am work with Illustrator Isabella Kung, on a how-to iIllustration demo. ENROLLMENT IS FULL
Grades 3-5
- Friday October 9 from 11:30am-11:50am author Leila Sales presents her book, The Campaign, and then 11:50am-12:10 am writer Marya Brennan (NaNoWriMo) holds a creative writing demo.
- Friday October 16 from 11:30am-11:50am author Mike Jung presents his book, The Boys in the Back Row, and then 11:50am-12:10am bookmaker Chad Johnson (San Francisco Center for the Book) will present a how-to demo on making your own book.
Teacher Activities
- No Voice Too Small: Young Americans Making History - Activity Guide, Flipgrid Book Club
- A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India - Coloring Activity
All live programing is free and will also be recorded for later free access. Live sign-up opens September 2 and is first-come, first-serve. Zoom links given to teachers to distribute. We can accommodate live attendance up to 900 students and their teachers per presentation.
History
As part of the festival each October, Litquake produces Kidquake, and brings over 800 K-5 students and teachers to the San Francisco Public Library for two days of talks, workshops, and free books with acclaimed children’s authors.
In true Litquake style, San Francisco students in grades K-5 get to sample from the work of four or five authors in an hour-long presentation and then participate in hands-on workshops with the writers they’ve just seen. Each student leaves with a new book and teachers receive a bag of books and other goodies. Sign-up forms are distributed early each fall to San Francisco schools.
Last year, 100% of teachers noted that Kidquake programming reinforces lessons from the classroom, and prized Kidquake’s ability to inspire their students by affording them a connection to authors and the writing process. Kidquake also caters to San Francisco’s most diverse student bodies: 10% African American, 18% Latinx, 20% Chinese, 16% Pacific Islander, 21% White, 4% Middle Eastern, 11% Mixed. 45% of students receive free/reduced lunch.
Participating authors have included Anthony Robles, Jon Agee, Lisa Brown, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Jennifer Holm, Leuyen Pham, Ina Cumpiano, and many more!
As part of the festival each October, Litquake produces Kidquake, and brings over 800 K-5 students and teachers to the San Francisco Public Library for two days of talks, workshops, and free books with acclaimed children’s authors.
In true Litquake style, San Francisco students in grades K-5 get to sample from the work of four or five authors in an hour-long presentation and then participate in hands-on workshops with the writers they’ve just seen. Each student leaves with a new book and teachers receive a bag of books and other goodies. Sign-up forms are distributed early each fall to San Francisco schools.
Last year, 100% of teachers noted that Kidquake programming reinforces lessons from the classroom, and prized Kidquake’s ability to inspire their students by affording them a connection to authors and the writing process. Kidquake also caters to San Francisco’s most diverse student bodies: 10% African American, 18% Latinx, 20% Chinese, 16% Pacific Islander, 21% White, 4% Middle Eastern, 11% Mixed. 45% of students receive free/reduced lunch.
Participating authors have included Anthony Robles, Jon Agee, Lisa Brown, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Jennifer Holm, Leuyen Pham, Ina Cumpiano, and many more!
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