AletaToki's annual edition of collected essays integrates gifted talent with mainstream issues and current events, providing a public forum for profoundly intelligent students to voice their opinions on any topic of personal interest.
The purpose of the poetry contest is to bring recognition to poets both young and old. Winners share over $70,000 in prizes. With most contests regionally based, poets are competing against their peers in both age and location. In addition to the winning poems, other poems of high merit are accepted to be published in a hard bound anthology. Within the guidelines of accepting less than 50% of the poems that are entered in each contest, the contest is selective so that it is an honor to be accepted, yet not so exclusive that it is discouraging to enter. Unlike many other organizations who sponsor poetry contests, there is no entry fee and no required purchase in order to become published. We take pride in the fact that our staff is comprised of teachers, professors and poets. Creative Communication is devoted to the promotion of writing, teaching and appreciation of poetry. The intent of the poetry contest is to encourage creative writers. The top entries are published in an anthology that will record the poetic insights of today's poets. There is no requirement for a poet to purchase an anthology, however, if a poet wishes to purchase one, it is made available at an affordable price.
"The United States depends on knowledgeable and thoughtful students--the next generation of leaders--to build peace with freedom and justice among nations and peoples. In the belief that questions about peace, justice, freedom, and security are vital to civic education, the United States Institute of Peace established the National Peace Essay Contest to expand educational opportunities for young Americans."
Power of the Pen™ is a non-profit educational writing program which targets 7th and 8th grade students in Ohio. At three levels of competition (District, Regional, and State), students participate in three rounds of impromptu writing and receive instant feedback from judges.
An award given to a student whose essay shows "outstanding academic promise at the secondary level."
Every year in connection with the Library of Congress, River of Words conducts an international poetry and art contest designed to help children explore the natural and cultural history of their local watersheds.
Students who are between the ages of 5-19 may submit an entry form, and eight grand prizes winners receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.D. to attend an awards ceremony at the Library of Congress.
"The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have provided an avenue for young artists and writers, in grades 7–12, to receive recognition and rewards for their creative achievements since 1923. By acknowledging the visions and voices of emerging artists and writers, The Awards have helped nurture eight decades of promising talent by providing recognition, cash awards and college scholarships."
Since 1986, the National High School Essay Contest on the United Nations has inspired students to engage global issues and the work of the U.N. Each year, UNA-USA publishes a topic and question of particular importance to the international community. The purpose of the Essay Contest is not to summarize or evaluate the work of scholars, thinkers, government officials or authors. Instead, UNA-USA asks students to use these resources to structure their own arguments and reach their own conclusions.
This organization provides teenagers a communication outlet for addressing important issues in their lives. It helps them develop their reading, writing, thinking, and reflection skills by: training teens in journalism, publishing a number of teen-written publications and providing a public forum. There are a number of resources for educators related to reading and writing, and many of the articles are gifted-related.
Youth Speaks is one of the top youth poetry, spoken word and creative writing programs in the country. It provides teens an excellent opportunity to share and compare their writing; some of their events include poetry slams, festivals and reading slams. Other features include a free after-school workshop, press resources, and a merchandise section. An underlying mission of Youth Speaks is to give teens the tools they need to apply their voices in creating social change.
The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote the appreciation of literary excellence and to stimulate and nurture the creation of literary works in all sectors of the population. It offers classes for professional and amateur writers, presents public readings by well-known and emerging prose writers and poets, does outreach work in several community sites, and publishes at least one book of poetry each year.
This book is a valuable resource that includes 50 reproducible templates, student samples, step-by-step directions and strategies to support every learner. The organizers are perfect for note taking, planning, presentation, and review. Includes organizers for reading, writing, math, social studies, and science.
Twin sisters Jessica and Danielle Dunn, explore practical writing tips and an up-to-date listing of print and online markets that publish student work. Tips include freelance publishing, writing camps/workshops as well as rights and copyright informatiion.
Barbara, the daughter of two authors, was a writing prodigy who was always homeschooled. This book chronicles her literary development as a child and adolescent, as well as her mysterious disappearance in young adulthood.
This book focuses on encrypting and deciphering texts and includes several methods of cryptography, such as transcription, substitution, transposition, and lots more. Historical events are included for these purposes along with codes that were really used.
Designed by an educator who has taught grammar and writing from grades seven through the first year of college, this workbook emphasizes practice. It contains six separate topics: parts of speech, sentence structure, word usage, case, agreement, and style. Each page presents a brief lesson followed by related exercises. The book is available with or without answer keys following each section. Because the workbook arose from real classroom situations, it has been widely field-tested and is practical and effective
This is a resource writing book for teachers, or homeschool parents, etc. who are trying to teach children how to write. It contains activities to inspire young writers to write, revise and edit. There are many ideas on assessing student growth.
The Italic Handwriting Series is the nation's leading instructional guide to legible italic handwriting. Developed at Portland State College in Portland, OR, the series teaches students to write quickly, accurately, and aesthetically in both italic manuscript and italic cursive.
The book demystifies the research process and provides tools students need to shape their research into substantive, well-written products that communicate with readers. Combining research with compelling writing is challenging for upper elementary and middle school students, but when done well, reports embody the passion that every student brings to the subject she or he loves.
This curriculum guide offers instruction on how to interrelate words, illustration, and design through simple book making activities. Starting with the concertina book, Paul Johnson demonstrates that the creation of simple books is a powerful (and fun!) medium for developing writing skills.
"This book is an introduction to mathematics—in particular, it is an introduction to discrete mathematics. There are two primary goals for this book: students will learn to reading and writing proofs, and students will learn the fundamental concepts of discrete mathematics."
Isaac Stern is a great performing artist, famous for his profound music-making, and his dedication to sharing his knowledge and wisdom with younger musicians. He began performing publicly while still very young, and was soon touring across the country and around the world. His fame escalated when he led the fight to save Carnegie Hall, and again when he was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary film From Mao to Mozart. In this book he shares his personal and artistic experiences.
Road to Writing is a unique creative writing program that gives even the youngest writers a chance to express themselves. Featuring five distinct levels, or Miles, the Road to Writing program accompanies children from their first attempts at writing to comfortably writing on their own.
This multi-sensory grammar teaching program provides full instruction in the fundamentals of English grammar for the elementary and early middle school grade levels. Particularly recommended for twice-exceptional gifted children, especially those with dyslexia and other language learning disabilities. Advanced Winston Grammar kit is available for the junior high and high school grades.
This book is a valuable resource guide on how to write almost anything, from business letters and term papers to plays, poetry, and clear directions. The book can be used as a reference manual or as a writing curriculum guide. Highly recommended, many homeschooling families report sending their children off to college with this manual in tow! Great Source also publishes elementary and high school versions of the book, but the middle school version listed here is the most versatile.
This book describes several very bright young writers between the ages of 10 and 15; contains examples of their work; and provides information about how an adult writer mentored them.
This workbook helps elementary age writers refine their sentence and paragraph writing. It contains reproducible pages which model and provide practice in the basic components of writing. Including excercises to help students write more complex sentences, use figurative language, organize writing and thoughts better, and more.
This book provides short, targeted, very creative writing composition activities designed to teach specific skills and genres of writing.
The book contains specific lesson plans, student assignments, and criteria and suggestions for evaluation of student work. The book contains the complete content of the first writing courses for verbally talented youth designed by the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University in the early 1980's. This course was designed originally for 7th grade students who scored 430 or above on the verbal section of the SAT.
This series is a complete writing program using a process approach to writing and composition assuring continuity and control. It has been written specifically for homeschoolers. The author has created manuals for the parent and/or student to use, depending on the level, suggesting the typical number of days to spend on each assignment. The author has also created manuals to teach fiction and interpersonal relationship skills, as well as to evaluate writing.
Grades 4-8 will gain insight from this book offering practical questions to facilitate Socratic-style discussions and explorations of literary concepts found within poems. Author, Susan Lipson, provides 25 original poems as prompts for students to use as inspiration for their own poetry and prose.
This book introduces a method for writing that is more "right-brained" or gestalt. Mind-mapping, now a common technique in teaching writing, was fairly new when this book was originally published, and there is extensive material in this volume about how to use mindmapping and how to translate mindmaps into excellent writing.
From The Window is a non-commercial Internet magazine (with readership in 105 countries) inviting contributions in journalism, poetry, travelogues and experiential writing from people in all walks of life and all parts of the globe.
"Through home and school subscriptions, Merlyn's Pen magazine became a well-known and respected name in education circles, garnering positive press in such media outlets as the Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Booklist, and English Journal. The magazine was awarded placement on the New York State Recommended Reading List for high school students, alongside seven other publications, including the New Yorker and Time. At its peak, Merlyn’s Pen had 35,000 paid subscriptions and was incorporated into more than 1,000 school curricula. All of these efforts were spearheaded by the founding editor and publisher, former English teacher Jim Stahl."
Edited by and for girls ages 8 to 14, New Moon is the ground-breaking, imaginative, ad-free magazine that girls, parents and teachers love. (Winner of 6 Parents' Choice Gold Awards.) Girl contributors from around the world give voice to their dreams and intellect through fiction, poetry, artwork, letters, and articles on different cultures and enterprises. New Moon is an international, multicultural magazine which connects girls and celebrates diversity by providing a place for girls to express themselves and communicate with other girls around the world.
Stone Soup is a magazine that contains stories, letters, book reviews, art and poems created by kids. You can also submit your own.
The Concord Review recognizes and publishes exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world. The Concord Review remains the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students. Essays should be in the 4,000-6,000 word range, with endnotes, on any historical topic, and must be typed, printed from a word processor, or sent on a Macintosh disk.
This distance learning program through EPGY offers English courses from the fourth-grade level through the Advanced Placement level. Students are placed into English Expository Writing courses based on age and standardized test scores.
This website -- the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University -- now contains more than 1 Gigabyte of writing-related material, with new material being added almost every month. The web site contains hypertext workshops and subject tutorials on writing research papers, resumes, and cover letters, huge collections of links to help users find information on the Internet, PowerPoint presentations about all aspects of writing that can be downloaded for use in classes or individual study, and a voluminous quantity of web pages that cover all aspects of writing – from cover letters to commas. Anyone, anywhere, can email questions about writing to our online tutors, who will respond within 24 to 48 hours. The Purdue OWL News, a weekly email newsletter now has over 10,000 subscribers from all over the world. This newsletter provides tips on writing and updates about what's going on in the Writing Lab and OWL. The website is divided in to four main sections: the lab section; the handouts section; the workshops and presentations section; and the internet section.
This distance learning program is designed for independent learning and offers students in 6th through 12th grades Honors level and Advanced Placement courses for high school credit. Teachers proficient in their respective subject areas work with LearningLinks students in a variety of formats. Most of the courses are offered in an online format through BlackBoard CourseInfo. Students also communicate with their instructors via email, telephone and the U.S. Postal Service.
The Writer to Writer seminar encourages creative writing by high school students through interaction with professional writers in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, journalism, and other forms. Since 1984, the seminar has been offered as an annual week-long summer event, drawing students from throughout Oregon, but primarily from the Portland metro area.
This online class is a distance learning home study course for parents. Most homeschooling parents already have shelves of writing curricula to use with their kids. What they don't have is a cheat sheet for themselves that trains them how to teach this beast called writing.
Aspen Writers' Foundation hosts an annual five-day, day camp called Writing Retreat & Literary Festival in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. This summer program is more than 30 years old and is led by some of the nation's most gifted and engaging writers. ASW provides the ideal venue for anyone with a passion for words by creating opportunities for intimate dialogue with acclaimed authors.
High school students can enjoy workshops in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction during this residential summer program. Other highlights include lectures by the university's English faculty.
The Young Writers Workshop of the University of Virginia, established in 1982, brings together writers with a common purpose: to create a supportive and noncompetitive environment where teenagers can live and work as artists. The faculty, professional authors interested in developing new talent, bring practical experience to the workshop setting. The staff counselors, who are graduates and undergraduates in related fields, broaden our instructional program as assisting workshop teachers and elective course instructors. The administrators, also writers, are dedicated to nurturing the artistic vision.
VAMPY is a 3-week residential Summer Program for very bright students who are currently enrolled in grades seven through ten and is designed to provide a balance of educational, cultural, and recreational experiences for high ability young people.
"Young Writers is an intensive two-week workshop for intellectually curious, motivated high-school students who value writing. Our goal is to help students develop their creative and critical abilities with language—to become better, more productive writers and better, more insightful thinkers. For more than ten years, Young Writers has provided a lively, supportive environment where students can stretch their talents, discover new strengths, and challenge themselves in the company of peers who share their interests."
During this resendential summer program, Kent School offers classroom and workshop instruction in creative writing with a total of about 50 students. Students explore narrative, poem and essay writing in all stages of the writing and editing process.
This three-week residential summer writing program for high school students takes place in July at
Simon's Rock College of Bard in Gt. Barrington, Massachusetts. The tuition is about $2,000 and scholarships are available.
Headed by nationally recognized authors, this residential summer program offers intensive, small group workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. Participants attend iboth ndividual conferences wtih instructors and public readings of student's writing.
This program offers boys and girls who have completed grades 6-8 experience in exploring, improving, and gaining confidence in their skills both as critical and creative writers. Each day will be productive and fun filled. Workshop students live together (boys in one dorm; girls in another) to create a supportive, cohesive group in which students can produce their best writing. Social activities are planned in conjunction with our similarly structured CONNECT, FOCUS and FOCUS/ELI programs.
The Read, Write & Type!™ Learning System provides systematic instruction with engaging games and lively graphics to help children learn to read. As children progress through the 40-lesson adventure, they become empowered to tackle the new words they encounter both in their reading and writing. But most of all, Read, Write & Type!™ is fun and easy to use.
Grades 10 & 11; 2 weeks; residential. Open to advanced students who wish to refine their writing in a particular genre.
Clarion West is an intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy, held annually in Seattle, Washington.
This residential summer program offers seperate workshops in fiction, poetry and playwriting for students at all levels of ability and experience. Idyllwild's 205-acre campus provides an outstanding setting for specific art-centered programs, festivals and performances.
The Bay Area Writing Project's Young Writers' Camps offer students the time and opportunity to explore their writing interests, discover their strengths and learn more about the craft of writing. The camps provide in-depth writing instruction, structured writing workshop time, flexibility in writing assignments, and daily opportunities to share writing with peers. Through the camps, students discover the conditions and habits needed to do their best writing and grow in their confidence and skill.
The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop is the best known and most highly regarded science fiction writing workshop in the country. Clarion attracts some of the most highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy authors as teaching writers. Admission to the workshop is based upon the promise of the applicant's writing at its present stage.
This online catalogue offers information regarding training and products for the 6+1 Trait Writing framework, a powerful way to learn and use a common language to refer to characteristics of writing as well as create a common vision of what 'good' writing looks like. Teachers and students can use the 6+1 Trait model to pinpoint areas of strength and weakness as they continue to focus on continued writing improvement.
This line of electronic tools fills a niche for portable computing. AlphaSmart is a leading provider of technology solutions for education and productivity, focused on reducing the cost and complexity of computing. Their products are useful for students struggling with writing. Features include testing controls for teachers. One popular tool is the AlphaSmart 3000, which allows you to enter and edit text, then send it to any computer for formatting or directly to a printer. Its portability allows students to use it anywhere and anytime - in the classroom, at home, or on field trips.
Dictation software suitable for children. Allows you to "train" the computer to recognize your voice. You can begin using it with just an hour or so of training.
ePALS Classroom Exchange is the world's largest and fastest growing online classroom community, connecting more than 4.5 million users. ePALS helps learners of all ages become active members of the global community by giving them access to tools, resources and each other. Since 1996, ePALS has allowed learners to broaden their horizons, work together and form new friendships. By developing and offering barrier-breaking resources such as the Internet's first built-in webmail language translation, ePALS has allowed people in 191 countries, speaking 136 languages to have meaningful contact with each other. Our safety innovations, such as monitored email and profanity filters, have helped to make ePALS the leading provider of email technology in schools worldwide.
"Teaching more than 6,000 students a year, Gotham Writers' Workshop is the largest and most comprehensive private creative writing school in New York City and online. Ten-week and one-day workshops are offered in more than a dozen forms of writing including fiction writing, screenwriting, nonfiction writing and more. The school also offers private instruction, script and book doctoring services, workshops for teens, and custom workshops for corporations."
"Handwriting Without Tears® (HWT) is the easy way to teach pre-printing, printing and cursive! It was developed by Jan Z. Olsen, OTR, an occupational therapist and handwriting specialist. She has more than 25 years of experience helping children and training teachers and therapists. HWT is an inclusive method for teaching children of ALL ability levels. Children love it. Also, it doesn't take any special training to teach the Handwriting Without Tears method. Parents and new teachers enjoy the simple and clear directions that make it easy to help children. Experienced teachers appreciate the innovative techniques and limited preparation needed to have great success with the entire class."
Inspiration Software®, Inc. is a leader in visual thinking and learning that develops and publishes software tools that inspire learners of all ages to brainstorm, organize, plan, and create. With more than 10 million users worldwide, this software is revolutionizing visual learning in education—inspiring students to develop strong thinking and organizational skills and improve their academic performance.
Welcome to Stevenson Learning Skills, the company that publishes the Stevenson Reading Program, Semple Math and other materials for teaching essential skills to students. Our methods are unusual and innovative. We use established techniques like mnemonics (memory aids) and multisensory instruction in imaginative new ways. The materials accommodate common learning problems, such as attention deficits, phonological processing difficulties, memory weakness and sequencing confusion. In addition to publishing, we offer training and consult services. The Stevenson Language Skills Program covers reading, spelling and language arts. Semple Math teaches arithmetic operations, place value, word problems and more. Additional materials for teaching grammar, cursive writing and telling time is also available.
This online instructional service provides you with your own private writing teacher who works with your son or daughter on a daily basis via email, Monday through Friday. All that's required to use the individualized programs is a computer and the ability to communicate via email. Designed specifically to address the needs of the individual student, these programs can serve as a full-fledged writing curriculum, or as a supplement to virtually any other course of study. All students work at their own pace with their own teacher, and all of the hand-tailored services are guaranteed within 24 hours.
This online curriculum is an innovative middle and high school writing education program combining 21st Century technology with flesh-and-blood writing experts to offer challenging and comprehensive composition classes for middle and high school students.
This website is intended to provide a voice for young people on the Internet. They accomplish this by publishing original creative work by kids in the areas of art, writing, games/puzzles and multimedia by kids ages 7 to 12.
This website lets users register an account as an author, type up a story, and post it on the site. You can also read others' stories, review them, and get hints to help you with your stories. The topics are varied- original work, poetry, stories in many genre, as well as take-offs from TV shows, comics, movies and much more.
This is the first and original penpal club for kids by kids and we make sure you are safe in here.
This website is home of the young writers' resource webzine. This site has articles, resources, workshops, and helpful hints for young writers to explore and better their skills.
The Youth Writing Festivals at Calvin College are for young people in grades 1-12. They include a writing contest and workshops for young writers featuring established authors and illustrators.
Druidawn has many components, including: a series of anthologies written by and for children and teens; an opportunity for young fantasy/sci-fi authors to submit, read, and comment on stories; a role-playing game used by language arts and creative writing teachers to get students excited about writing; writing clubs in Colorado, Illinois and online to help young authors develop and hone their skills in a comfortable setting, with a group of like-minded peers; an interactive website providing a safe environment where kids interested in science fiction and fantasy can hang out, chat, play games and keep a journal; and, writing mentorships and publishing opportunities for young authors and artists.
This website offers a long list of downloadable graphic organizers to help students with the writing process.
This website works from the premise that an essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. It provides a plethora of advice and numerous resources on essay writing.
This online curriculum includes lessons and customizable materials for learning handwriting. Learning to write numbers and letters are important tasks for children. Each lesson is featured on its own page, and kids are shown simple steps to write the numbers, letters, and sentences. Kids can trace uppercase and lowercase letters, and blank sheets are provided for kids to practice more before their next lessons.
Make custom handwriting worksheets with text in basic print, denelian and cursive
The aim of Children's Express, a registered charity, is to bring the voice of young people to a wide audience and through our work with young people have a long term impact on:
confidence and self-esteem
literacy and academic performance
leadership and ability to work in teams
oral and written communication skills
social skills and independence
expectations of future prospects
"Children who paint or write in cursive, but who are unable to write legibly and consistently, in spite of repeated admonitions, require special approaches to the solution of their special difficulties. These are youngsters who are unable to properly form their letters, who have difficulty keeping their letters on the line, who may not seem to understand the relative sizes of letters, who either crowd letters within words together, or who space so poorly that it is almost impossible to determine where one word ends and another begins." Read this article for more information.
"InfoTrac College Edition, an Online Research and Learning Center, offers over 15 million articles from over 5000 scholarly and popular periodicals. Articles cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and topics- ideal for every type of researcher. Professors and students can gain access to the online database 24/7 on any computer with internet access. The newest feature to InfoTrac College Edition is InfoWrite, a writing tool that assists students through difficult areas of research writing."
This website offers a variety of writing resources, some of which include writing center resources, writing centers online, and resources for writers. In addition, some of the links to writing centers online will allow students access to an editing service.
This website is designed for kids (mostly) and for adults interested in quality children's literature. It offers all kids an opportunity to see their works published on the Web. We welcome any submissions in electronic form, either by email or by output from a word processor. All submissions must be in a PC-compatible format.
We'd be happy to consider any literary or artistic works in age groups up through high school.
This site offers art, poetry, stories, book reviews, and contests - all for children by children.
This website is a place where where kids can write stories and even compose music and post them on the net.
Kids' Space aims to foster literacy, artistic expression, and cross-cultural understanding; and break down cultural, religious, ethnic and racial barriers between children of the world by promoting cross-cultural collaboration in creative projects.
This article provides gifted teachers advice on planning writing menus.
This article summarizes children's handwriting k-12. It gives common examples and parent's and idea of what to expect.
This article provides an introduction to the key aspects of the research paper genre. True research papers are more than a loose collection of anecdotal memories or a patchwork of data pulled from several books. But while new to most first-year college students, a research paper can be incredibly exciting, rewarding, and even comforting to write because it finally allows you to really get into a subject you care about with both hands while having added security--a proverbial squad car of "back up" to support you while you explore those dark alleyways of future knowledge.
This website provides resources, support materials, activities, and assessment to writers. The goal of the site is to build vocabulary, improve English, reading, comprehension and writing skills. It provides three levels of difficulty with quizzes that provide immediate feedback for the student. Includes motivational activities, and you can register to receive the "word of the day" along with changing topics for discussion. There are sections on writing topics, tips for writing, and there is a teacher's guide.
Some people produce characteristic, recurring writing problems as a result of inappropriately applying visual thinking to writing. This paper proposes that the writing problems of such visual thinkers derive from three factors: a lack of words, unfamiliarity with the kind of analysis that leads to the logical sequencing of prose, and difficulty understanding that context must be communicated.
Callirobics (CALLIgraphy and aeROBICS) are a unique concept in handwriting exercises. They consist of repetitive simple writing patterns (straight and curved lines) to music. The music relaxes the participants and adds rhythm to their exercises. With music the exercises become fun instead of tedious penmanship chore. Music also benefits participants who learn better through auditory, instead of visual means.
This program allows parents and teachers to create custom worksheets to teach handwriting skills. It has both print and cursive options with optional graphics.