Why do we write? To communicate, and communication requires audience.    Without audience our desire to write and to improve our writing diminishes.

There are a number of ways we can offer audience in the classroom. We can invite students to participate in author’s chair. We can project or read from their work during minilessons to illustrate craft. But one of the most successful ways of inspiring students to write and revise is to publish their work.Contrary to what some believe, publishing is n