To encourage library participation, NaNoWriMo offers a guide specifically geared towards administrators who have concerns about the viability of running
a NaNoWriMo program.
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Our NaNoWriMo programs raise awareness of writing and get people curious.
Not exact matches
NaNoWriMo's Young Writers
Program offers grade - level workbooks chock - full of graphic organizers, step - by - step instructions, examples and advice that helped my students prepare for the challenge.
But I have never seen students write with as much enthusiasm as they do each November when my 8th - graders participate in the Young Writers
Program of National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a.
NaNoWriMo).
The Young Writers
Program of
NaNoWriMo provides curriculum that supports both teachers and students in preparing for the November challenge, as well as tips for persevering throughout the month - long wild writing ride.
Not to worry: the Young Writers
Program has tallied up the many ways that
NaNoWriMo meets the Common Core Standards.
NaNoWriMo, along with its subprograms (Camp
NaNoWriMo, Young Writers
Program, Come Write In, and «Now What» Months) champion the power of the human mind to make the world a better place.
All of the different companies who are offering incentives and sponsorship this year have paid to take part; that funding keeps
NaNoWriMo in action and goes to support the classroom
programs under the Young Writer's
Program.
Not only that,
NaNoWriMo helps support an educational initiative based solely off of donor support, the Young Writers
Program, which is worth every ounce of effort and amount of spare change that participants can give.
And just in time for
NaNoWriMo, my interactive coaching
program, Knockout Novel, is $ 10 off through November... and you own it for life.
Amazon has launched a Kindle First
program that allows readers early access to certain titles; Jason Diamond rounds up ten must - read November books; Salt Publishing's Linda Bennett offers an author challenge for
NaNoWriMo; and other news.
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NaNoWriMo is one of the easiest, less intense
programs I work on,» says Ruth Percey, teen services librarian at Oshkosh (Wis.) Public Library.
Since its inception in 1999, when only 21 people took part,
NaNoWriMo participation has increased exponentially, and the
program has grown into a global phenomenon.
The «Come Write In»
program was the brainchild of Sarah Mackey,
NaNoWriMo director of community engagement.
Its
programs now also include Camp
NaNoWriMo during the spring and summer months, and the Young Writer's
Program, along with its headline event each November.
I know you have never charged for this, but if you put a little tip jar app somewhere, you could pass on that money to some worthwhile cause... like the
Nanowrimo young writers
program.
After eight years of
programs promoting National Novel Writing Month (
NaNoWriMo), Topeka and Shawnee County (Kans.) Public Library (TSCPL) responded to customer requests for similar events.