Our Writing Program
Project Related Writing
Journal
Writer's Workshop
Opportunities for Publishing
A wide variety of writing experiences are incorporated into each of our projects. Our students develop informative, narrative, and persuasive writing skills as a natural outcome of the scope of their project challenges throughout the year.
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Our journal assignments give students additional opportunities to develop their writing skills. By the end of the year, each student creates a journal filled with reflections on their lives as fifth/sixth graders, essays related to inspirational quotes, short stories related to project themes, poems, and more. Narrative, informative, and persuasive writing skills are incorporated into the journal assignments throughout the year.
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In order to expand our students' writing skills, we spend time each week in a "Writer's Workshop." During these writing experiences, we expose students to a variety of writing techniques. Grammar, spelling, and vocabulary lessons are also incorporated into these workshops in an individualized manner.
Regardless of the type of writing that the students do, we emphasize the idea that writing is a process. Prewriting, writing, revising and publishing are the four steps the students are guided through on their way to producing a finished piece of writing.
Our students will have the opportunity to publish their writing in a variety of publications. Listed below are names and addressees of magazines, contests and web sites interested in submissions by middle school aged students.
Literary Magazines
Children's Album 1320 Galaxy Way, Concord, CA 94520Creative Kids PO Box 637, 100 Pine Ave., Holmes, PA 19043
Merlyn's Pen: The National Magazine of Student Writing, 98 Main St., East Greenwich, RI 02818
Prism PO Box 030464, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33303
Shoe Tree, National Association for Young Writers, PO Box 452, Belvidere, NJ 07823
Stone Soup, PO Box 83, Santa Cruz, CA 95063
Writing Competitions
We Are Writers, Too! Creative with Words Publications, PO Box 223226, Carmel, CA 93922Young Playwrights Inc., 306 West 38th Street, Suite 300, New York, NY 10018, 212-594-5440, www.youngplaywrights.org, writeaplay@aol.com
The National Written and Illustrated by... Awards Contest for Students c/o Landmark Editions Inc., PO Box 4469, Kansas City, MO 64217
Annual NewsCurrents Student Editorial Cartoon Contest, The Annual NewsCurrents Student Editorial Cartoon Contest, Knowledge Unlimited, Inc., PO Box 52, Madison, WI 53701
Publishing on the Web
KidPub www.kidpub.org is a well organized Web site that provides students opportunities to see their writing published on the Internet - includes a "Publisher's Picks Link."Top
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