WRITING BY CHILDREN
The sites below provide suggestions for improving writing, and many offer opportunities for publication.
- Children's Express This site is for sharing news stories written by kids for everyone. http://www.ce.org/
- Cyberkids Connection, a virtual place for young people from all over the world to share their thoughts and ideas with each other. http://www.cyberkids.com/
- Cyberteens Mountain Lake publishes educational software, as well as the Web sites CyberKids and Cyberteens. Their goal is to create and promote youth community worldwide, and give teens a voice and an interactive place to express their creativity. Young people all over the world make Cyberteens a sharing, caring space. http://www.cyberteens.com/ctmain.html
- The Diary Project It is a way for young people around the world to share their personal thoughts, feelings, and dreams with one another near and far .. to ask questions and find answers about growing up at the turn of the 21st century via the Internet. Requires plugins. http://www.diaryproject.com/
- KidNews This is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world. Anyone may use stories from the service for educational purposes, and anyone may submit stories. It invites comments about the news gathering, teaching, and computer-related issues in the Discussion sections for students and teachers. A tremendous source of all kinds of magazines for student-published work. http://www.vsa.cape.com/~powens/Kidnews.html
- Kidpub More than 10,000 stories written by kids from all over the planet! http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
- Kids Cornfield Kidworld Magazine A good example of kids writing on the internet, including particularly good games and puzzles in the online format. http://www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/CORN.html
- Kid's Space The site has rapidly developed into many sections including creative activities communication pages, and sections for learning basic computer skills. Good audio clips in three options are available of music by kids. http://www.kids-space.org/
- The Looking-Glass Gazette The purpose of this publication is to showcase stories, poems, artwork, book reviews, and other creative work by kids in preschool through eighth grade. http://www.cowboy.net/~mharper/LGG.html
- Midlink Magazine This electronic magazine was created by kids, for kids in the middle grades--generally ages 10 to 15. Browse through the interactive space to enjoy art and writing that will link middle school kids all over the world. http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink/
- The Mighty Pen OnLine MagazineThis is an online magazine by and for young adult writers. It features poems, short stories, essays, articles, concert, music, movie, and book reviews, accompanied by graphics and pictures. http://pages.prodigy.com/FL/coolie/coolie.html
- New Moon This is a site for the magazine for girls writing of their dreams and aspirations. Provides a set of guidelines for writers. http://www.newmoon.org/
- Positively Poetry Positively Poetry is made up of poems submitted by kids from around the globe. Children can send their poems to Positively Poetry and all work will be displayed for people on the Internet to view. http://advicom.net/~e-media/kv/poetry1.html
- Scriptito's Place It is especially for young people ages 7-15. Vangar publishes things that people your own age have written to put a spotlight young talent, and to show you that you can do it too. http://members.aol.com/vangarnews/scriptito.html
- Writing Den This is designed for students Grades 6 through 12 who want to improve their English reading, comprehension, and writing skills. Writing DEN is divided into three levels of difficulty: Words, Sentences and Paragraphs. Includes Plugins. http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/
- Young Writer On-Line Young Writer is a magazine that publishes creative writing from children aged 6 to 16 from around the world. Fun, instructive and designed to build a writer's confidence, Young Writer is a forum for young people's writing fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry. http://www.mystworld.com/youngwriter/index.html
- The Young Writers Club This club aims to encourage children of all ages to enjoy writing as a creative pasttime by getting them to share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities. The Magazine online is called Global Wave. http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html
- Young Writer's Clubhouse Created by Deborah Morris, the author of the Real Kids, Real Adventures series. This site offers a great deal of sound information and opportunities for young people through writing. http://www.realkids.com/club.htm