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Young Readers League 2018 Writing Contest 2nd place Category 1 (ages 8-11) Maya Bailey Age 11 (Grade 6), Eliot Arts Magnet “The Mattesons” A natural disaster forces the Matteson family to take a new journey. It was 9:00 a.m. when the lights started to flicker in the […]
Young Readers League 2018 Writing Contest 3rd place Category 1 (ages 8-11) Becca Andelin Age 11 (Grade 6), Eliot Arts Magnet “Facing the World” Marco finds inspiration to face the world. Marco sat in his den, next to a blazing fire. It was snowing outside, frosting the […]
Young Readers League 2018 Writing Contest Honorable Mention Category 1 (ages 8-11) Emily Downs Age 8 (Grade 3), San Rafael Elementary School “Pencil” Once upon a classroom, there was a pencil named Dixon. Now Dixon was stuck in a classroom he didn’t like. Dixon had one friend: Papermate. […]
Young Readers League 2018 Writing Contest Honorable Mention Category 1 (ages 8-11) Ella Lesnever Age 11 (Grade 6), Blair Middle School “My Journey Around the United States” My family is doing a challenge where my brother and I will try to go to all fifty states before we […]
Young Readers League 2018 Writing Contest Honorable Mention Category 1 (ages 8-11) Lucca Sandino Age 11 (Grade 6), Blair Middle School Untitled Once upon a time, a young boy named Henry was born in a big city named Tanker City. When Henry turned eight, he and his parents […]
On July 13, 2018, we had a special creative writing and filmmaking workshop for kids between the ages of 5 and 8, to make campaign videos about getting their toys elected president! The idea came from the book I’ve published with lesson plans to do writing workshops with primary grade […]
Last month we had a special Kids’ Writing Workshop all about writing songs, with guest Tim Griffin of GriffinEd! Tim was a classroom teacher for many years and he created the nonprofit GriffinEd and wrote all of the songs featured there, to give teachers a gift of music to help […]
Last week we had our Kids’ Writing Workshop Creation Stations program, and celebrated National Poetry Month with Haikubes, Paint Chip Poetry, Reverse Poetry and Blackout Poetry: Kids got to spend 10-15 minutes at a time at each station and then move on to another activity. Their creativity was constantly flowing, […]
Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest 1st place Category 1 (ages 8-11) The Journal by Lauren Sales Age 11 (Grade 7) Blair Middle School This is the story of an ordinary girl with a not so ordinary story. My name is Jenna Adler and I live in New Orleans, Louisiana. […]
Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest 2nd place Category 1 (ages 8-11) The Haunted Pair of Ballet Slippers by Maelee Rose Acosta Age 11 (Grade 6) Blair Middle School The little ballerina warned them! No one would listen to her. They had no idea of how dangerous the pair of […]