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| September 21 2009 Encourage Reading in Your Classroom |
Bring Letters About Literature to Your Classroom Are you a teacher who's looking for an exciting way to encourage reading and teach proper letter writing format? Letters About Literature, a state and national writing contest for grades 4-12 is a fun way to do just that. Students are asked to write a personal letter to an author who has changed the way they think, pushed their imagination to new heights, or made them look at the world in a different way.
This contest is coordinated by the South Dakota Humanities Council, a non-profit organization in Brookings, SD, which receives support from the National Center for the Book within the Library of Congress. The Council is the only statewide cultural organization whose sole mission is to deliver humanities programming to the people of South Dakota.
To enter, simply have your students write a letter to their favorite author. Then, submit these letters to the contest's national office for state and national judging. Judges in South Dakota include retired literature professors, journalists, librarians, and former teachers. For more information, please call or write to Jay Willms at 605-688-6113 or jay.willms@sdstate.edu
Deadline:
December 12, 2009
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