Library of Congress writing contest open to young readers and writers

Hello Motown Writers - Last spring you published on your site information about Michigan's winners in the Library of Congress Letters About Literature program. This is open to young readers and writers in grades 4 - 12. Would you be interested in announcing this year's contest? LAL invites young readers to write a personal letter to an author explaining how that author's work somehow changed the reader's view of himself/herself or the world. This year's deadline is December 12, 2009. The "call for student entries" is attached. Michigan's Center for the Book sponsors this program on the state level and we'd love to have lots and lots of wonderful letters from children in the Detroit area this year! Please visit our website at www.lettersaboutliterature.org for more information. Cathy Gourley, LAL National Project Director more details.... CALL FOR STUDENT ENTRIES! December 14, 2007 is the deadline for this year's Letters About Literature contest, a national reading and writing promotion competition. Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, this program invites children in three competition levels (grades 4 through 12) to write a personal letter to an author explaining how that author's work somehow changed the reader's view of the world or himself/herself. We would love to have your students enter! We award both state and national prizes. New this year, six national winners will each earn for their school or community library a $10,000 reading promotion grant! The program is free and upon request we can forward to you our 36-page teaching file which includes lesson plans, blackline masters, writing samples and assessment checklists. We have attached the how-to-enter guidelines with the required entry coupon.  For additional information, please visit the Letters About Literature website: www.loc.gov/letters.  Or you can contact the project director at lal@epix.net and we'll send it to you directly.  LAL supports national standards for teaching language arts & reading as recommended by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Catherine Gourley, LAL National Project Director Center for the Book, Library of Congress

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