"Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad"
Sample Lesson Plan

Step 6: Group Projects:Publishing

Children learn ways to publish their work, both as traditional books and on the Internet.

Publishing opportunities: Original stories and poems will be published on the children's web site English On-line Writers' Window. Nonfiction pieces about frogs and toads will be posted as a collection (an "ezine") on Kids on the Net.
Final projects will also be published as classroom anthologies using desktop publishing software (e.g., Easy Book).
Non-fiction groups can use Kid Pix Deluxe to create an electronic slide show presentation about frogs and toads.
All children's projects and illustrations will be posted on the school's web site.

Assess children's final compositions using the writing rubric developed by the North West Regional Education Laboratory at: http://www.nwrel.org/eval/writing/primary.html
Add children's final work to their portfolios, and compare to their initial brainstorming session and previous drafts to assess their overall progress.

Children will publish their projects in a variety of electronic formats so they can reach a broad audience (the school community, as well as people around the world who visit web sites such as English On-line Writers' Window and Kids on the Net). Because children will feel proud of their accomplishments, I will encourage people in the school community, including parents, to view their work and offer feedback. The web sites English On-line Writers' Window and Kids on the Net also invite feedback on children's writing. These exchanges will help foster the idea that children are, in fact, real writers who are connected with a wide audience.