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Teachers and schools are continually conjuring up new, creative ways to use Word Ventures for the benefit of their students, and we always try to be flexible to supporting these new ideas for using our service.

We originally foresaw Word Ventures serving as a motivating and rewarding finish to an already-required writing assignment. The teacher would first teach and administer the writing assignment in whatever manner they normally would. Then, at the end, student work would be submitted to Word Ventures to publish in a real book. In this way, the students’ book would simply become an “add-on”—a great, new final step—to the teacher’s normal process.

This is still how Word Ventures is most often used. But it didn’t take long for teachers, administrators, and others to come up with new ideas for using Word Ventures. Here are three of our favorites:

	Publish a book that includes essays from seniors concerning their reflections on their high school experience. This would also work for students “graduating” from elementary or middle school.
	Hold a writing contest in which every student “wins”, because every student’s entry would be included in the final published book. The best entries, chosen by the teacher or school, could be labeled as such and included in the front of he book, but all students would be published, enhancing participation.
	Establish a writing club in which a key benefit to student members is to be able to publish their work in one or more Word Venture’s books throughout the year. One of our free sample books, highlighted on the last page of this brochure, was created by members of a high school writing club.

The number of ways to implement a Word Ventures book project is probably endless. All that’s really required are students excited to become real, published authors and a topic about which to write. What’s your idea for making use of Word Ventures for the benefit of your students?