Future Scholars Foundation offers monthly prompts and prizes I recently received an email from 11th-grader Nathaniel Tok, co-founder of Redmond, Wash.-based Future Scholars Foundation. Tok requested that I include on my website a new writing contest for K-12 students. The foundation’s mission? “To empower every child through innovative competitions and workshops, fostering essential skills andContinue reading “New Monthly Writing Contest for K-12!”
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New writing contest: Book blurbs!
Whether you’re distance learning or at school, start fall with this new contest With talk of a second corona virus wave coming late summer, knowing what “school” will look like in August or September is impossible right now. However, one thing I know for sure: on the first day of school, my creative writing classContinue reading “New writing contest: Book blurbs!”
Contest #1: VFW Patriot’s Pen
Originally published June 1, 2017 ©Edutopia | The George Lucas Educational Foundation My first post in this new blog focused on writing contests and how I use them in my middle school ELA classes to provide authentic writing experiences. As promised, my subsequent posts (starting with this one) will highlight a contest that I usedContinue reading “Contest #1: VFW Patriot’s Pen”