Raising the Stakes: The Storytelling Power of Emotion in the ELA Classroom' with Story Pirates
4:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
February 23, 2027
| Liberty Fine Arts Office
Part of the KS/MO Kennedy Center Partners in Education program
Free; pre-reservation required
Grades 2-6
Not only can strong, vibrant emotions make for a more gripping piece of narrative writing, they're also a great tool to help students express themselves with clarity and specificity. Join Story Pirates teaching artists for simple, easy activities you can use to help students raise the stakes in their writing, bringing the emotion and the expressive power of their narratives to the next level.
The Story Pirates, best known for their flagship podcast with more than 100 million downloads, are a family media company that amplifies the words and ideas of kids. The award-winning The Story Pirates Podcast takes stories submitted by kids and turns them into sketch comedy and songs with help from celebrity guests like Kristen Bell, John Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Seth Meyers, and more.
Story Pirates have also produced the Looney Tunes podcast and co-created Game On, a sports podcast for families, with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Historical Records, a podcast that fuses history with original hip-hop songs, with Questlove and iHeart. In addition to podcasts, the Story Pirates have released three critically acclaimed middle grade books and five award-winning albums. In partnership with Story Pirates Changemakers, their non-profit arm that brings life-changing arts and literacy tools to under-resourced schools and communities, Story Pirates produce the PBS show The Story Pirates Present: SPTV. For more, please visit the Story Pirates website.