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As teachers, we are constantly looking for new and better ways to motivate our students. Improved motivation leads to improved effort, which leads to improved performance, which leads to improved self-esteem. The trick, as any teacher knows, is finding something that will furnish this kind of magical motivational spark.

Word Ventures provides just such a spark. 

The upper elementary students at Lone Oak Montessori School fell in love with the idea of becoming real, published authors. Even students who typically resisted writing projects could not resist this one, and achieved new-found levels of success.

This ended up being the first writing project in which I had difficulty getting some students to stop writing. You’ll notice that some stories are labeled “Part 1”, or some such thing. Even now, with their book published, some students are continuing to add to their stories in their own time. What more could a teacher want?

Danielle Fang
Lone Oak Montessori School


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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!