Radnor Middle School and the RMS PTO’s cultural arts committee hosted talented author and long-time educator Elizabeth Mosier, who offered a seven-part residency to RMS seventh graders.

This residency is underwritten by the Radnor Educational Foundation.
The project evolved out of beautiful presentations that connect her love of reading to her work as a writer, which Mosier has offered for the past two years to RMS students. The teachers have been so enthusiastic about these presentations that they have now become woven into the sixth and seventh grade language arts curricula, with older students often mentoring younger ones as they put together the lists of books that have been most influential in their lives.

This project seeks to develop the potential and current creativity to students of varying abilities.

Storytelling Through Words, Images and the Young Writer’s Voice is a seven-part program designed to help students and teachers connect the experience of reading to the process of writing through creative exercises inspired by children’s picture books and graphic novels, including The Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss, Flotsam by David Wiesner and The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.