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Write On! Bookmaking Camp Available for Classroom teachers to teach! 1/6/2012 1 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC Teachers make $20 per student!

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 2 The Write On! Bookmaking Camp is sponsored by Publishing Young Authors, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing children’s interest in writing through bookmaking and other high-interest writing activities. Publishing Young Authors also provides a great way for teachers to make a more than fair stipend for teaching the camp as well as provide them with new strategies to use when teaching writing in their own classrooms. Students pay $25 for the camp and teachers are paid $20 per student. PYA grants and fundraising help absorb their excess cost for materials and book publishing on our end in the bookmaking camps. Publishing Young Authors

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A Write On! Day Camp’s purpose is to provide 3rd-6th grade children an opportunity to make their own hardbound books as well as five more at home. The camp takes seven full hours and is divided into two three-hour days and one day after school where students share their stories. Camp dates are decided by the teacher and can be held on a Saturday, during a holiday break, after school or in the summer. Seven hours are required to complete the camp and then meet with students to share their stories. Materials are sent to PYA where we publish and return completed hardbound books. 1/6/2012 3 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Materials each student receives Pencil A Write On! Student Guidebook with instructions for writing four different types of stories, and other helpful writing tips. After camp is finished, students have access to an electronic template like the one they used during the camp PYA will publish up to five books for them at no additional cost. 1/6/2012 4 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 5 Teacher Requirements Access to the school’s computer lab on a day school is not in session. Ability to pop into 3 rd - 6 th grade classrooms to give a quick two-minute presentation about the writing camp to recruit students. Ability to send a file to PYA with student typed stories. A certified teacher currently working in a school where you plan to have the camp. Depending upon number of students who sign up, it is recommended to have capable 6 th graders, junior high, high school or parent volunteers to help with writing and illustrating. A teacher can handle 10-12 on his/her own.

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 6 A perk for students is that once they have taken the Write On! camp, they have access to the Write On! bookmaking template and we will publish up to 5 books for them at no extra cost.

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Teachers recruit students to participate in the writing camp. Teachers spend the two three-hour days following a Power Point that has story samples and specific step-by-step instructions; it is literally the teacher’s lesson plan. Students type their stories in the school’s computer lab. The second week, students follow a power point to illustrate their stories and finish their book covers. Teachers send the edited stories, illustrations and book covers to PYA to publish them. Stories are returned and students meet one day after school to share their stories. 1/6/2012 7 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 8 Using the Power Point as a guide helps students to smoothly complete writing, illustrating and assembling their books in the confines seven hours. A brief outline and samples from the Power Point are as follows :

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Students first learn some writing techniques that will help them write more descriptively at home and in school as well. 1/6/2012 9 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Students are read two different sample stories like the one they will be writing during the day camp. The type of story in this day camp is a point of view story. 1/6/2012 10 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Specific instructions help guide students to organize each page. The first page is the introduction, the following four pages are the details and the last page is a conclusion. 1/6/2012 11 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Students also learn illustration techniques that help with not only good illustrations, but also creative drawing ideas . 1/6/2012 12 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Another sample to teach students illustration techniques . 1/6/2012 13 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Just as the writing process, students are walked through each page of the illustration process. 1/6/2012 14 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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Students illustrate their book covers as well as the six pages of their story. 1/6/2012 15 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC kkkk

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Their Write On! Guidebook has Illustration Techniques and four different types of stories with samples and instructions. 1/6/2012 16 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 17 How do you start your own Write On! Writing Camp? First, we send you a sample book to show the students and email a flyer about the camp which you will individualize as in the sample below.

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 18 Recruiting Your Writers You must do your own marketing. You are provided with a hard copy sample book and a flyer/sign up sheet that students will fill out and return with a check to Publishing Young Authors. The best way to recruit your students is to give a quick 2 minute presentation to the 3 rd -6 th grade classes. If you just send out flyers or have the teachers tell their students, they will not sign up. The students have to actually see the books they will be making.

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1/6/2012 © 2011 Write On!TM Publishing LLC 19 This program is endorsed by the Boise School District. This was an email to principals this fall. Principals The Directors listened to a presentation this summer regarding "Publishing Young Authors" . We were very excited about what we heard and the possibility of having this program in more of our schools.  The directors want to make it very clear that this is a voluntary program and each building principal will make the decision as to whether it is appropriate for your school. If the principal gives their permission to have the program the following requirements must be followed. You must have a Teacher/Principal currently in your building sponsoring/teaching the class. If a Saturday is the day chosen to have the class the teacher must be in the building supervising the program and responsible for the participants. (no rental fees will be charged) The teacher responsible must be willing to have the program in their classroom after school. (no rental fees will be charged) If you have any questions please call Dr. Stephanie Youngerman Thank-you Directors