Author Visits
Author Assemblies:
Target Audience: K-2nd grade Audience size: 20-200+ students
Dori Hoch is a retired teacher and reading specialist with over thirty years of teaching and public speaking background with elementary students. She is a lively presenter and shares her passion for writing with the students by highlighting the process she uses to create and write her Bunny Brother books. In her 40-45 minute presentation, the author explains how she created her fictional characters, Bobby and Benjamin Bunny. Students will learn about the making of believable characters who struggle with problems and how to solve them. Working closely with illustrator Jane Wolfgang, the author gives examples of Wolfgang’s whimsical drawings that enhance the story and stresses the collaboration that is needed between the author and illustrator to bring her Bunny Brothers to life. The presentation ends with a reading one of the Bunny Brother books, predetermined by the host school. Following the reading, there will be a time for questions.
This program is designed to address a number of Common Core Standards including Narrative Writing 1.4; Focus, Content, Organization, Style, and Technology and Publication
*There is an author fee for whole group assemblies. Hoch also requires that a book order form be sent home with students prior to her visit. Book orders will be filled and signed the day of the readings.
** For more information or to schedule a school visit contact Dori Hoch at dhoch49@gmail.com
Reviews:
Dori Hoch did a great job of keeping our kindergartner and first grade students engaged last November when she read her book, “The Bunny Brothers First Thanksgiving” to two combined classes at a time. With her own teaching experience, she was able to build background knowledge and frequently stopped at key points to encourage participation using questions that involved the use of context clues, prediction, and connections. Hoch also shared how she got the idea for her stories and challenged our students to use their imaginations to write their very own stories. After her visit, our teachers shared that many of the students were inspired to write their own stories. What a lot of mileage for a 30 minute author visit and reading! We can’t wait to have her come again to share another Bunny Brother adventure!
Christine Franckowiak
Reading Specialist at St. Ignatius Loyola Regional School, West Lawn, PA
Sept. 22, 2016
Dori was very engaging with our students. As a former teacher, she knew exactly how to interact with the students, get their attention and remain in control as they asked questions and got excited answering her questions. We even surprised one of the kindergarten classes by sitting with their table at lunch and eating with them. Dori was very accommodating to our school’s schedule, and the visit was a pleasant one. I am looking forward to her coming for another visit in the future to bring her Brother Bunny Series to a new set of students.
Jenn Allbee
Librarian at Oley Valley Elementary School, Sept. 15, 2016
Our school 13th and Union Elementary had the pleasure of Dori coming to our school to read to our Pre-K through 2nd grade students. Prior to her presentation, she had all of our teachers read her different stories about the Bunny Brothers so our students would be familiar with them before her visit. During her assembly, the students were very involved as she read her latest story ”The Bunny Brothers: Sister Trouble.” They got to dress up as the characters and act out special parts of the story. The students enjoyed Dori telling them about how she became an author. She made our students feel so special by showing them that they are authors too because of the writing they do in school. As a reading specialist, I would totally recommend Dori coming to your school to promote literacy as she reads her stories about the Bunny Brothers.
Melissa Houptley, Reading Specialist, 13th and Union Elem, Reading School District, Reading, PA. 2.4.2020
to the students at 13th and Union.
