Publishing party

Writing celebration - each reader shared their favorite line from a piece of writing that they read.

Becoming a published author is an achievement worth celebrating! Here are our top 4 publishing party ideas to celebrate with your #proudauthors.

We recently sent off a class book to be published and it's back! I've been doing this for a few years now and I love how excited the kids get when they see their writing in an actual hard-cover book. So this year we celebrated with a book publishing party complete with punch, cookies, and the very first reading of our book. They even made toasts and clinked their plastic cups together. It was a hit with my little authors! I posted about the books last year too. Go here to read and get…

Publishing party

Publishing party decorations

Celebrate each young author in your classroom with an end-of-year portfolio presentation and party to showcase all their hard work.

WOO HOO! We finished our first big writing project of the year - personal narratives and we had a great author celebration to celebrate all our great authors. Our writing units are 6 weeks long and I use plans I found, since we don't have a writing series to follow. To make it makes much more sense to have a devoted time everyday and really dig deep in the writing process especailly in 4th grade. We do big pieces and I get some shorter pieces where they do the writing process independently…

The writing unit is over and you're about to start a new genre. But, wait! Celebrate all of that hard work with an author's celebration! Read this blog post for planning tips!

Hello friends! This is Cara Taylor from Creative Playground and I'm so happy to be learning and sharing with you today! Since we're at that half-way mark in the school year, many of us are at that point when our kiddos are nearing the end of publishing a writing piece. If you have or are planning to hold an Author Celebration or Publishing Party, make sure to keep reading to discover... We could go on for days talking about how to create a positive celebration experience, but I've narrowed…