2) Individual pieces handwritten or typed, then printed or photocopyied and shared with friends and families.

3) Individual pieces of writing intended as gifts for people who the writer cares about: poems, stories, memoirs, letters, and opinions to be presented to somebody special.

4) Submissions to the class magazines: collaboration and collections about one theme or exploring one genre.

5) Submissions to the school literary magazines.

6) Submissions the middle school yearbook, which features articles, reminiscences, and poetry.

7) Submissions to the local newspapers, including letters to the editor, feature articals, profiles, and poetry.

8) Submissions to magazines that publish student writing, including Blue Jeans (P.O. Box 90856, Rochester, NY 14609), Meryln's Pen (P.O. Box 1058, East Greenwich, RI 02818), Read 245 Long Hill Road, Middleton, CT 06457), Stone Soup (P.O. Box 83, Santa Cruz, CA 95063), Writes of Passage (817 Broadway, New York, NY 10003), Writing (245 Long Hill Road, Middletown, CT 06457), and Voices from the Middle (NCTE, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801).

9) Submissions to writing contests-local, regional, state, and national.

10) Intercom or assembly announcements: notices, poems, songs, and stories written by students and shared with the school community.

11) Submissions to the principle's weekly newsletter: announcements, anecdotes, poetry, and guest editorials.

12) Posters-poetry, research, announcements, handbills, jokes, and riddles-for classroom bulletin boards, and school corridors.

13) Classroom bulletin board and school corridor displays, changed frequently.

14) Displays at public events.

15) Enactments and recitations of scripts, speeches, and awards.

16) Petitions

17) Correspondences

18) Writing read aloud to students in other classes.