Imagine
every student in your class eager to
start their next writing assignment and
inspired to do their best.
Pure
fiction?
Not any more!
You're one of those enthusiastic teachers that are always looking
for innovative new ways to excite and motivate your
students, right? Well here’s maybe the best one ever—one
that has proven to electrify student writers
of all ages and abilities!
In a
nutshell, Word Ventures takes your students’
writings and collects them into a real,
professionally designed, officially published book
that will be carried by Amazon.com—just like the
books of every bestselling author in the world!
And
yes, many “real” bookstores and libraries will be
able to order and shelve your book as well!
“Thinking outside the box” is a habit that many of the best
teachers seem to share. But you can do even more
with Word Ventures—you can leap outside of your
classroom’s walls and carry your students with you!
Parents will be drawn along as well,
delighted that their students were lucky enough to
get you this school year!
No
matter how long you’ve taught, you know that
excitement inspires students’ best efforts.
Excitement can transform an indifferent
student writer into an engaged one, and a
good student writer into a committed one.
Imagine the buzz of excitement in your classroom
when you announce to your students that their next
writing assignment will be officially published in a
real book, available on Amazon.com!
Then watch as
your students attack the writing assignment with a
passion you’ve never before seen from them.
This is exactly the kind of atmosphere and effort
that other teachers have reported.
And finally, at
the end, what a wonderful and appropriate reward and keepsake
will be available to students and parents: the students' own
work in a real, officially published book.
Can’t
you just picture your smiling young authors holding
their new books, turning them over in their hands,
rifling through the pages—eager to do it all again!? Can’t you just
imagine their soaring self-esteem!?
Isn’t
it your experience that it’s usually something
different and special that makes a
permanently positive difference in a student?
Isn’t "making a difference" the goal that all
great teachers share? And isn’t attaining this
goal—however often you can—what keeps you and other
great teachers excited and energetic, year after
year?
Invite your students to succeed! Offer them the
wonderful feeling of becoming real published
authors! But also allow yourself to feel exhilarated
as you witness both your reluctant and willing
writers make dramatic leaps in motivation and
passion! You may positively change forever how
some of your students feel about writing!
There
is zero risk to publishing with Word Ventures. There
is a modest participation fee for each student
included in your book—usually around $12 dollars.
But parents are not asked to pay this small fee
until after they've been able to review your
ready-to-publish book. If a parent doesn't want
their student to remain included in your book, for
whatever reason, they simply don't pay the
participation fee, no questions asked.
And
yes: schools, PTAs, booster clubs, or any other
organization can opt to pay all students'
participation fees, rather than asking each parent
to do so.
Likewise, parents aren’t obligated to buy any
minimum number of published books. Your book
will be available from Amazon.com, so that parents
can buy as many (or as few) books as they want,
whenever they want. Parents may also be able to
special order your book from their local bookstores.
We
know that your time is precious, so we’ve made
coordinating a Word Ventures book publishing project
clear-cut and hassle-free. You administer your
students’ writing assignment however you usually do,
or however you want: Word Ventures then receives
your students' writing and does
everything necessary to turn it into an officially published book
available worldwide.
Every
so often something truly different and special for
teachers and students comes along. You know, because
you’re one of those teachers that are always
searching for the next great idea for your students.
Publishing your class in a real, official book
will impassion your students and make you a star
with your parents and peers!
It
happens every time!