Carol Briggs
Elective #5: Student Publishing
Permission Form:
Dear Parent or Guardian:
As part of our writing program here at
We are asking your permission to publish your child's work on the following web site:________________________________.
While the child may provide their first name, age, city, and/or school name, they will NOT be permitted to provide their last name.
Child's Name:_______________________________________
Please check one of the options below, sign, and return this permission form to your child's teacher. Thank you.
____ Yes, I give my permission to allow my child's work to be submitted to this web site: __________________________________________. I also understand that my child's first name, age, city, and school name may be used on the website to identify my child's work.
____No, I do not give my permission for my child's work to be published on the web.
Parent's or Guardian's signature:__________________________________________
Five Sites that
Publish Student Work:
Kids can write and submit poems to Fern's poetry club. Fern is a poetry-loving character on the PBS
program "Arthur." The site
also features games and print pages that are fun for kids (like make your own
"cootie catcher"). This site
is most appropriate for students in elementary school and early middle
school. Date visited:
This site has sections for students to submit either stories
or poems. The site is divided into
sections for kids aged 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, so students
can read work that is submitted by other kids their age. Because of the way they accept submissions
from different age groups, this site is appropriate for students aged
5-16. Date visited:
http://www.kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite/index.html
This site is a bilingual site and takes student writing
submissions in either English or Spanish.
Students can submit jokes, stories, poems, or write an essay to answer a
question that the website provides. While the majority of the submissions seem
to be in English, there are some in Spanish.
There are submissions from all over the world, so it is neat to see
where the other students live. Most of
the students making submissions are middle school-aged. Date visited:
http://www.brightinvisiblegreen.com/kidscribe/index.html#writing
On the site, students can submit art, poetry, fiction, or
non-fiction. This site also has games
and shopping. This site seems most
appropriate for middle school and high school students. Date visited:
On this site, students can submit art, poetry, and
stories. There is a shopping area on
this site. There is also a
"learning center" where students can get online tutoring. This site seems most appropriate for
upper-elementary and middle school students.
Date visited: