Monthly contests, each with different themes, offer Amazon gift cards and publication as awards. It’s open to elementary and middle school students. How To Enter Check the site each month for the new theme. Submissions are due on the 28th. For more articles like this,subscribe to our newsl...
Critical Thinking: Writing requires students to organize their thoughts, connect ideas, and present logical arguments, all of which strengthen critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Creativity: Writing is a powerful tool for self-expression. Whether your child is crafting a short story or a...
Still, you can use the writing contests you don’t win as a chance to provide yourself with this feedback. Take a look at the winning and shortlisted stories and highlight their strong suits: do they have fully realized characters, a knack for showing instead of telling, a well-developed...
I've actually been writing since elementary school, when I would sit in a little armchair in my room and fill page after page of lined paper with fantastical, kooky stories of dubious literary merit. I've always had to write; it's something I live and breathe. I think that baby me ...
Introduced to grand opera as a toddler, and taken to Broadway shows since I was four years old, I was not shielded from menacing adult themes onstage. For instance, since I had devoured Henry James’ gothic horror novellaThe Turn of the Screwas an elementary school pupil, I was taken to...
You are students of today. Your mindset is today. Your thoughts are today’s thoughts. When you complete the Basic Life Process course, you will become stewards of the New Way Forward and not of the dug-up past.” Bryce and Blake gave each other a puzzled look. “You will no longer ...
Sign up by March 9 to receive the writing prompt via email. Contest starts on Thursday, March 9 and ends on Monday, March 13. There are two age categories: Elementary Contests for ages 13 years and younger and High School Contests for ages 14-18 years....
The great leader whose “thought wins at every battle”, as was still written in big red characters on the wall of my elementary school, had died. The once-favored “Russian Elder Brother” fell out of favor for his mean ways of responding to China’s famine. Dr. Kissinger visited China...