Publishing Ideas

Special Forever aims to encourage students to think carefully about why they want to communicate, what they want to communicate and who will be their audience. As well as submitting work for publication in the Special Forever Anthology there are opportunities for students to publish at the local level.

The following ideas have been used successfully by teachers participating in Special Forever:

• series of articles in the local newspaper

• supplement to the local newspaper (collaborate with other schools or community groups)
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• tourist brochure (from a child’s perspective).

• shopping centre display or ‘expo’, with students acting as ‘tour guides’.

• classroom or school display or ‘expo’, where students act as ‘tour guides’ for other classes, parents and local community.

• 2007 calendar produced by class members for the community, with text and illustrations for each month prepared by a different group.

• Various kinds of books for the school library 

• collections of local Dreaming stories (attributed to local groups) 
• an anthology of prose and poetry
•  collection of local folklore 
• invented and collected ‘tall tales’ relevant to your locality

• written history of recollections of long-time residents, collected by oral interview

• ongoing correspondence with a pen pal, either in another part of the Basin or in the city

• class or school magazine

• reading expressive writing over the local radio

• making a video

• letters to various decision-makers

• write and perform a play

• develop an information and promotion campaign - Keeping <name of place> Special - with a series of informational brochures about the community (eg how to enjoy our river; preserving our endangered species). Produce your own documentary to go with it.

More ideas and information on writing for a purpose, local displays and funding your publication can be found in Publishing Ideas (PDF 165KB)

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