Classroom Publishing
A Practical Guide to Enhancing Student Literacy 
By Laurie King & Dennis Stovall

How often do we hear good news about America's classroom? And when do we
have the opportunity to hear from teachers themselves on exciting
curriculum or the things that work for students?

In Classroom Publishing: A Practical Guide to Enhancing Student Literacy,
teachers share their success stories about using publishing as a tool to
greater literacy. Students--the writers, publishers, editors, typesetters,
and printers of the future--are producing an array of sophisticated books,
magazines, guides, and newspapers. A tangible product is only one of the
rewards. Student publishers develop their writing abilities, but, in
addition, skills in critical thinking, researching, teamwork, computer and
print technology, and graphic design. Often crossing the curriculum,
project examples suggest ways to use publishing to involve even the most
reluctant learners.

These innovative publishing projects take place both in and outside the
classroom. For example, high school students in Seattle work with Seattle
Times editors and publish their writing in a regular youth column. Middle
school students at an Albuquerque community center write and produce books
to send to Nicaraguan children who have no books. From rural Alaska to
Detroit's inner city, from first grade to college, these projects offer a
rewarding approach to student involvement in the world of books and
ideas.

Classroom Publishing is an accessible guide for teachers, older students,
homeschoolers, librarians, administrators, parents, and career counselors.
In addition to the project descriptions, there are chapters describing
processional publishing and career options, funding and distribution
ideas, markets for young writers, resource lists and educational
opportunities, plus tools and methods of production.

Co-author Laurie King taught at Reed College and has been a public school
teacher in California and in Oregon. She is currently writing a
multicultural anthology for Addison Wesley. Dennis Stovall, who teaches
classroom publishing workshops for educators, is a writer, editor, and
publisher.

Classroom Publishing, A Practical Guide to Enhancing Student Literacy 
Publication Date: October 1992, 208 pp, 8 1/2 x 11, 
ISBN 0-936085-52-5, trade paper $22.95 
Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

Blue Heron Publishing, Inc.
24450 NW Hansen Rd, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124.

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