Writing for Children and Teens Course Overview
Our signature, customized writing course for those interested in learning how to write and market children’s stories and articles. Students learn techniques of good writing, develop the ability to direct writing to specific readers, and undertake projects that match their skills and interests to editorial needs of publishers of material for children. Students write and review three article/story outlines targeted to specific magazines and websites as well as one magazine manuscript up to 1,500 words suitable to submit to a publisher.
Our courses are designed for you to set your own pace. The average student takes about 220 hours to complete all assignments. Although most students complete this course in 18 months, ICL allows up to 2 years to complete Writing for Children and Teens.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Writing for Children and Teens Course Manual, IFW Publishing.
The Instruction Manual published exclusively for our students. It contains assignments, idea generators, planning guides, writing and revision techniques and guidelines for preparing a book submission package.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-25-3, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing — get the inside scoop on what print and digital publishers are looking for in 2023. In addition to 583 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Book Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-26-0, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing. In addition to 653 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and
Teens Course
From Inspiration to Publication, IFW Publishing, ISBN 978-1-889715-58-2.
Offers a wealth of practical advice on every aspect of writing for young adults. From Inspiration to Publication is a distillation of over 50 years of teaching individuals how to write for children and teens, and how to market and sell. It is the best treatment of the subject in print.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, 4th edition, ISBN 978-0205309023, 2000.
A classic manual on the principles of English language. Decidedly the most practical handbook of grammar, correct usage, punctuation, and effective writing techniques.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Searching: a Research Guide for Writers, IFW Publications, 6th edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-13-0.
Prepared especially for our students, this handbook introduces a variety of sources and methods available for tracking down information, an indispensable guide to research resources.
Material Included in your Writing for Children
and Teens Course
Supplementary Instructional Materials, IFW Publications:
Talk Abouts.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Writing for Children and Teens Course Manual, IFW Publishing.
The Instruction Manual published exclusively for our students. It contains assignments, idea generators, planning guides, writing and revision techniques and guidelines for preparing a book submission package.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
From Inspiration to Publication, IFW Publishing, ISBN 978-1-889715-58-2.
Offers a wealth of practical advice on every aspect of writing for young adults. From Inspiration to Publication is a distillation of over 50 years of teaching individuals how to write for children and teens, and how to market and sell. It is the best treatment of the subject in print.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-25-3, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing — get the inside scoop on what print and digital publishers are looking for in 2023. In addition to 583 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, 4th edition, ISBN 978-0205309023, 2000.
A classic manual on the principles of English language. Decidedly the most practical handbook of grammar, correct usage, punctuation, and effective writing techniques.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Book Markets for Children’s Writers, edited b Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-26-0, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing. In addition to 653 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Searching: a Research Guide for Writers, IFW Publications, 6th edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-13-0.
Prepared especially for our students, this handbook introduces a variety of sources and methods available for tracking down information, an indispensable guide to research resources.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Supplementary Instructional Materials, IFW Publications:
Talk Abouts.
Why Choose IFW
- Customized – one-on-one mentor
- Reputable – time-tested, quality curriculum
- Affordable – tuition payment plans available
- Flexible – write anytime, anywhere, at your own pace
- Approved – earn college credits
Save On Your Tuition
The Institute for Writers makes it easy for you to receive a high quality writing program at an affordable rate. Everything you need to complete Writing for Children and Teens Course is included in your tuition. Choose which payment option best fits your needs.
College Credits
College Credits and Professional Development Hours: The Connecticut Board for State Academic Awards recommends that our graduates be awarded 6 college credits. No matter where you live, you can obtain these credits from Charter Oak State College—which functions under the credit-granting authority of the Connecticut Board—for a fee anytime within five years of your completion of the Institute’s course. You can have Charter Oak “transcript” these credits to any college, university, or school board. Teachers may be able to receive professional development hours. Check with your district or administrators.
Writing for Children and Teens
Course Details
Our Writing for Children’s and Teens Course is designed to teach you how to write and market children’s stories, articles, and books.
Course Goals & Objectives
- Define personal writing goals and work with one-on-one mentor to accomplish them
- Identify and develop the techniques of good writing and apply them to own writing
- Plan and develop ongoing writing projects that match writing skills and interest to editorial needs
- Develop the ability to direct writing to specific readers and publishers. Gain knowledge that will lead to:
a. survey and analyze the current children’s magazine and book publishers’ requirements
b. use interest and experiences as salable idea sources
c. revise and polish writing to prepare for submission
d. approach publishers with manuscripts that meet current specifications
curriculum
Outline
A beginning course in teaching students how to write for children and teens, and how to market their writing to publishers
Part 1 – Getting Started (Writing Assignments (1-3)
You are introduced to current markets for children’s stories and articles. At the same time, you’ll develop basic fiction and nonfiction writing skills and learn the discipline of staying within a specified word count.
Part 2 – Targeting the Market (Writing Assignments 4-7)
You learn to target your manuscripts for specific age levels and magazines while refining the writing skills you developed in Part 1.
Part 3 – Choose your own Adventure (Writing Assignments 8-10)
Magazine Article – If it’s for the magazine market, you’ll tailor a story or article to fit the requirements of the publishers you select. Your instructor edits your work and evaluates its suitability for those markets or recommends alternatives.
OR
A Children’s Book—If your personal goal is a book, you’ll analyze publishers’ requirements, prepare an outline, and submit your draft (picture book up to 500 words or early reader 500-1,500 words) to your instructor for review.
Overview
1. Story based on picture AND Autobiographical letter
2. Story based on word list
3. Description of a place recalled from childhood targeted to a young reader
4. Nonfiction article with market choices
5. External character description AND 350-word internal character description
6. Story based on character with market choices
7. Nonfiction article, query letter AND Revisions of previous assignments
8. Three story and/or article outlines, with market choices
9. Complete story or article with query or cover letter
10A. Final story or article with market choices OR Outline/synopsis of proposed book
10B. Either the first two or three chapters of your novel, or a draft of a picture book up to 500 words, or early reader book up to 1500 words.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Writing for Children and Teens Course Manual, IFW Publishing.
The Instruction Manual published exclusively for our students. It contains assignments, idea generators, planning guides, writing and revision techniques and guidelines for preparing a book submission package.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-25-3, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing — get the inside scoop on what print and digital publishers are looking for in 2023. In addition to 583 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Book Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-26-0, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing. In addition to 653 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and
Teens Course
From Inspiration to Publication, IFW Publishing, ISBN 978-1-889715-58-2.
Offers a wealth of practical advice on every aspect of writing for young adults. From Inspiration to Publication is a distillation of over 50 years of teaching individuals how to write for children and teens, and how to market and sell. It is the best treatment of the subject in print.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, 4th edition, ISBN 978-0205309023, 2000.
A classic manual on the principles of English language. Decidedly the most practical handbook of grammar, correct usage, punctuation, and effective writing techniques.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Searching: a Research Guide for Writers, IFW Publications, 6th edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-13-0.
Prepared especially for our students, this handbook introduces a variety of sources and methods available for tracking down information, an indispensable guide to research resources.
Material Included in your Writing for Children
and Teens Course
Supplementary Instructional Materials, IFW Publications:
Talk Abouts.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Writing for Children and Teens Course Manual, IFW Publishing.
The Instruction Manual published exclusively for our students. It contains assignments, idea generators, planning guides, writing and revision techniques and guidelines for preparing a book submission package.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
From Inspiration to Publication, IFW Publishing, ISBN 978-1-889715-58-2.
Offers a wealth of practical advice on every aspect of writing for young adults. From Inspiration to Publication is a distillation of over 50 years of teaching individuals how to write for children and teens, and how to market and sell. It is the best treatment of the subject in print.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-25-3, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing — get the inside scoop on what print and digital publishers are looking for in 2023. In addition to 583 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, 4th edition, ISBN 978-0205309023, 2000.
A classic manual on the principles of English language. Decidedly the most practical handbook of grammar, correct usage, punctuation, and effective writing techniques.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Book Markets for Children’s Writers, edited b Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-26-0, 2023.
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing. In addition to 653 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Searching: a Research Guide for Writers, IFW Publications, 6th edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-13-0.
Prepared especially for our students, this handbook introduces a variety of sources and methods available for tracking down information, an indispensable guide to research resources.
Material Included in your Writing for Children and Teens Course
Supplementary Instructional Materials, IFW Publications:
Talk Abouts.
With ICL, all course materials are included. Details below:
Writing for Children and Teens Course Manual, IFW Publishing.
The Instruction Manual published exclusively for our students. It contains assignments, idea generators, planning guides, writing and revision techniques and guidelines for preparing a book submission package.
Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-25-3, 2023
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing — get the inside scoop on what print and digital publishers are looking for in 2023. In addition to 583 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
Book Markets for Children’s Writers, edited by Marni McNiff; IFW Publishing, Annual edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-26-0, 2023
Offers a complete roadmap to the changing world of publishing. In addition to 653 new and updated listings, you’ll find bonus articles to boost your knowledge of the industry and increase your odds of getting published. Plus, you’ll find sections devoted to helping you create a polished submissions package including how to write and format a query letter and how to properly format your manuscript so you can make a professional impression on publishers.
From Inspiration to Publication, IFW Publications, ISBN 978-1-889715-58-2.
Offers a wealth of practical advice on every aspect of writing for young adults. From Inspiration to Publication is a distillation of over 50 years of teaching individuals how to write for children and teens, and how to market and sell. It is the best treatment of the subject in print.
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, 4th edition, ISBN 978-0205309023, 2000.
A classic manual on the principles of English language. Decidedly the most practical handbook of grammar, correct usage, punctuation, and effective writing techniques.
Searching: a Research Guide for Writers, IFW Publications, 6th edition, ISBN 978-1-944743-13-0.
Prepared especially for our students, this handbook introduces a variety of sources and methods available for tracking down information, an indispensable guide to research resources.
Supplementary Instructional Materials, IFW Publishing: Talk Abouts.
Writing for Children and Teens Course Tuition Rates
The Institute of Children’s Literature makes it easy for you to receive a high quality writing program at an affordable rate. Everything you need to complete your Writing for Children and Teens course is included in your course tuition. Choose which payment option best fits your needs.
Full Pay
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Save $286 with promo code IFW, Total $1,229
Payment Plan I
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