Creator: Carol Fertig | visit site
Grade Range: 6 - 11
This blog post suggests a few places for publishing the writing of your gifted and talented students. Each suggestion offers sites that cater to "real" audiences for young students, often audiences of their own peers. Explore resources that offer feedback and contests as well as more independent sites that accept submissions from student authors. Although quite short, this post is a great starting point for finding publishing resources for your students.
In the Classroom
Bookmark this article and explore the resources suggested for publishing student work. As you plan for ways to challenge your gifted students, this resource can provide ideas to extend their exposure and collaboration experience with other writers. Of course you will want to have parent permission before allowing interactions from your classroom, but parents of gifted students will probably delight in cooperating and even join in monitoring interactions as needed. Share this resource on your class web page so parents of your talented student-writers can encourage them at home, too.
At Home
Even the most experienced writers learn and collaborate with each other. If your teen enjoys writing and seems interested in it beyond school requirements, review this post and explore the resources mentioned together with your teen as possible avenues for publishing and sharing writing with a broader audience. By exploring together, you can also talk about the safest ways to share writing (without identifiable information or locations, for example). As your teen writer approaches college, having an online writing publication space will allow him/her to share works with admissions departments to highlight this special interest and self-directed learning.