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Teachers and librarians know children learn better when they're motivated to do so, and Kids Can Publish University is designed to help reward students for all their hard work by encouraging them to get their writing published through contests, workshops and classroom book publishing opportunities. Imagine how much becoming "published authors" would boost students' self-esteem and motivate them to continue to always put their best writing efforts forward when working on classroom assignments. Best of all, almost all the contests and publishing opportunities are FREE for kids to submit!
Kids Can Publish University also offers teachers and librarians helpful tips and publishing opportunities - resources of which every school should take advantage! Some of these ventures are free, and others can be funded through grants! (Click here for grant writing info!)
Contests & Publish Opportunities
School Visits & Workshops
Publish Students' Books
Grant Writing Info
Curriculum Kits
Ideas for Teachers
Other Publishing Opportunities
Kids Can Publish inspirational stories and how-to book
Workshops: Book a workshop and get a free copy of Granted! (click on book title for info)The Kids Can Publish Workshop: For students in Grades 2-6
The Kids Can Publish Workshop is presented by Lynda Exley, award-winning journalist and editor for the SanTan Sun News, author, speaker and former editor of Arizona Parenting and Houston Parent magazines.
- Excites students about writing
- Educates children about real-life published youth authors
- Gives kids and teachers tips on how to get published
- Brings the 12-year-old author of The Student from Zombie Island: Conquering the Rumor Monster into the classroom via DVD to talk about writing and publishing, and answer frequently asked questions
- Is the perfect adjunct to any writing assignment, in that students will WANT to write after attending this presentation. In addition, they will come to understand the importance of good writing skills - no matter what their goals in life are!
For information or to book a workshop, call 480-940-8182 or email info@FiveStarPublications.com
Teens Can Publish Workshop: For students in grades 6-9
Also presented by Lynda Exley is the Teens Can Publish Workshop, offering all the same things as the Kids Can Publish workshop, only geared for the older student with more emphasis on the impact good writing skills will have on students' futures, getting published, outlining and researching books and reports, jobs that require writing (even if they don't think it will) and more.
For information or to book the workshop, call 480-940-8182 or email info@FiveStarPublications.com.
Budding Journalists Workshop: For students in grades 4-8
This workshop has not yet been finalized, but we are so excited about it that we had to give you a a teaser on it. Lynda Exley is currently developing a workshop designed to help kids run their own school newspaper. Check back for more to come...
Author Visits:
Kids Can Publish University, a subdivision of Five Star Publications, has access to authors from all over the country who are willing to come to your school and speak on a variety of subjects.
For more author information, visit:
www.FiveStarPublications.com
www.SchoolBookings.com
www.AuthorsandExperts.com
Grant Writing Info:
NEED FUNDING TO PUBLISH YOUR STUDENTS' BOOK? Try writing a grant!
If your school is looking for money to fund the publication of a book as a classroom or school project, consider writing a grant. Granted! A Teacher's Guide to Writing and Winning Classroom Grants offers step-by-step assistance with those efforts. Click here for more information about Granted!
Ideas for Teachers:
Following are some fun writing ideas to get your students excited about writing!
- Choose a current event from your local newspaper, and have all your students write an editorial on it! Send them into the newspaper to see which ones get published and offer a prize for anyone who succeed. Schools on a budget can offer "Get Out of Homework" pass good for one assignment only.
- Have your students interview senior citizens at a local nursing home to record their memoirs. Then, have students place them in folders and give them to the people they interviewed as gifts.
- Have children write book reviews of their favorite books. Next, have them do a collage of all their favorite parts of the book
- Have students research published child authors and either do a summary report on all the writers they discover, or choose a favorite one to write about.
- Have kids choose a school event such as a play, football game, chess competition, school spelling bee, etc., and write an article on the event. Send the articles to neighborhood newspapers with a cover letter for possible publication. Offer prizes like a pizza party if at least 5 students get published, or schools on a budget can offer "Get Out of Homework" pass good for one assignment only for anyone who gets published.
- As a class project, choose a current topic and have students write well-supported editorials for the Opinion Page of your local newspaper. Have students check the newspaper daily to see which letters to the editor get published. Hint: This works best with non-daily neighborhood publications and smaller circulation papers that run opinion columns. It can also help if the teacher gives the newspaper a "heads-up" that students will be sending in their stories as part of a class project.
- Schools with a historic background should consider producing a book about the history of the school as a school or class project. The sky's the limit as to what can be included here! After publication, the book can be sold as a fundraiser. Click "publish students' work" for more info.
- For publication help, Click "publish students' work"
For inspiration and guidance, click here!
For funding, click here for GRANT information.
- Contact your local paper and suggest a Kids Opportunity Page, whereby the newspaper dedicates a certain amount of space to publishing children's writings and artwork each issue, weekly or monthly. Be sure to have students' parents sign a permission slip saying it's okay to print their child's work and full name in the newspaper. Hint: This works best with non-daily neighborhood publications and smaller circulation papers that are hungry for content.
- Throughout the year, promote a "Published Authors Party." Serve pizza, brownies and beverages, and only children who get published somewhere or win a contest can go to this special gathering where students and their parents listen to kids read the entries they got published.
Read testimonials from schools that have hosted Kids Can Publish workshops! |
 Thank you so much for your dynamic presentations at Liberty School yesterday. You provided living proof of the ripple effect of reading and writing! Thanks again! Jeanie Reams
Liberty School |
| The teachers in my building are always looking for places to showcase their student's work. Your contest highlights the importance of creativity in writing and art. In this age of technology, it will be very exciting to be published on-line.
Thank you in advance for this wonderful opportunity, |
