NCTE's National Day on Writing

Yesterday, I received an email from NCTE. The email included a link to the most recent issue of NCTE Inbox. Here’s something I read about that I thought I'd pass along to blog readers. It's about the National Day on Writing. I thought some of you might be interested in participating in this project sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.


Here’s some information about the National Day on Writing taken from the NCTE website:

Writing is a daily practice for millions of Americans. But few notice how integral writing has become to daily life in the 21st century.

To draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing we engage in and help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft, NCTE is working to establish October 20, 2009, as the National Day on Writing.

To celebrate composition in all its forms, we are inviting diverse participants --students, teachers, parents, grandparents, service and industrial workers, managers, business owners, legislators, retirees and many more -- to submit a piece of writing to the National Gallery of Writing.

The National Gallery will be a digital archive of samples that exhibit how and why Americans are writing every day, accessible to all through a free, searchable website. Writers’ pieces will be accompanied by

• brief descriptive entries (meta-data) describing who the writer is,
• the genre of writing represented, and
• why s/he selected this particular piece to submit to the Gallery.

We will build the archive of writing submissions in the Gallery throughout 2009, before sharing it with the nation on the National Day on Writing.

To find out more, click on the following link: NCTE's National Day on Writing

NCTE Inbox also provided a link to the following article:

Writing skills are life skills
5 ways to help your child learn to love to write – plus several online writing resources.