DELAWARECOUNTY READING COUNCIL

Chartered 1964

“Dedicated to promoting literacy in our schools and in our community”

Denise King, Susan Kulp, Co-Presidents, Delaware County Reading Council

DELAWARECOUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNIT

200 Yale Avenue, Morton, PA19070

Dr. Nicholas A. Spennato Young Authors’ Project Required Checklist for 2017 Final Entries:

Submissions that do not follow guidelines will be discarded.

  • Pupils may select for entry any pieces which they have written from the beginning of the

current school year. Only one entry per student is allowed. The entries may not have been part of another contest. All writing is to be completed in school. Pieces should not go home for any reason.

  • Teachers may suggest topics appropriate to interest/age levels of their pupils.
  • Entries are due to your English teacher before March 1, 2017
  • Modes: Writing entries should be PROSE ONLY: narrative, informational, or persuasive. (Poetry will not be read by the judges.) Entries must be original efforts that are written at school by the pupils who submit papers.
  • Editing: Teachers should edit the papers for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Because of this, the domain of conventions will not be scored.
  • Revising: No one should assist a pupil with the revision of the paper with regard to focus, content, style, or organization. The work should be the student’s work only.
  • Formatting; All papers must be typed (a traditional 12-point font is required) and double spaced. Papers will be rejected if they are (1) not double spaced, (2) handwritten, (3) contain pictures, or (4) are printed front to back.
  • Length: Not more than three (3) pages, double-spaced with a one inch left margin. Papers longer than three (3) pages will not be judged
  • Rubric: The Domain Scoring Rubric will be used to score the writing pieces. Using this rubric, the final entries will be judged on (1) Focus; (2) Content; (3) Organization; (4) Style.

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Student Checklist:

1. ______Entry is typed in 12 point fontand double-spaced.

2. ______Entryhas the correct identifying information in the upper right corner of the piece:

Student’s First and Las Name

Grade

School Name

3. _____Thetitle of the piece is centered just below the identifying information.

4. _____The piece has been edited by the classroom teachers of the participating children.

5. _____The typed product is of good quality for duplication.

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