Mission: The Circle Gazette’s ultimate purpose is to provide meaning to children’s literacy development process. Through their interaction with this periodical, children become better and more motivated readers, writers and artists.
This newsprint publication offers a safe and fair platform for children to tell their stories and opinions; to share their art and to play an active role in their communities as reporters.
The Circle Gazette serves children from K-12, from all school backgrounds and from everywhere.
The Circle Gazette will ...
... publish news, information and opinion articles for and about children’s life concerns and interests, involving local and broader community happenings and personalities relevant to children today.
... maintain high ethical standards with regard to fairness, personal and legal rights, responsibilities and accuracy.
... provide a forum for free and responsible expression of children’s opinion and present well-balanced, properly researched coverage of issues that are at the core of children’s interest.
... strive for a high level of competency in the technical aspects of writing, including grammar, spelling, clarity, and precision.
... welcome diversity in topics, and increase the scope and depth of coverage in order to heighten mutual understanding and awareness throughout the entire community.
... welcome diversity in writing styles by incorporating fiction and poetry in every issue.
... recognize the importance and relationship between visual art and the creative writing process.
Results:
Did You Know...
... that the Circle Gazette published more than 1500 pieces of work in its first 36 issues?
well-researched, informative articles
captivating accounts of personal experiences
interesting editorial pieces
fascinating fiction stories
witty and thoughtful poetry
fun comic strips
breathtaking art
useful trivia
Target demographics: increase and improve literacy and writing skills..
Programs: At the Circle Gazette young writers find an opportunity to tell their stories and opinions; and to play an active role in their communities as reporters.
This unique publication is an initiative of the Enrichment Circle, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for the advancement of education. The Circle Gazette is available in print and online.
Each issue serves also as an invaluable teaching resource! It serves as inspiration to children and as an inter-age bridge between kids of all ages and adults. Reading the Circle Gazette is the best way to know what young people of today think and create.
Children participate as freelance writers, community reporters, artists, readers and editors. As staffers, kids of all ages understand journalism, formatting and editing.
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The strength of Enrichment Circle, Inc. which publishes The Circle Gazette, is that it provides a safe and friendly outlet for children's creativity. We love children's writing voices and we support their individual writing efforts. We provide feedback, yes, but we want to hear their original thoughts and words. Through workshops, classroom outreach, and regular newspaper publication, we support and celebrate their efforts. We also love to publish their artwork. The Circle Gazette publishes essays, nonfiction articles, stories, poems, and art.
As a teacher of creative writing, the Circle Gazette is a great forum for students to express themselves, learn the editorial process, and feel the joy of being published. This newspaper offers a rare opportunity for children to hone their writing skills, learn how to cover a news story and express their opinions about life events as only they can. We are interested in what kids have to say. We love giving children a voice. We welcome all submissions, no matter what level the child is at. We will even assign a news story for those who express an interest. This is an amazing newspaper that nurtures the writers soul. We look forward to your submissions!
This is a great newspaper for children who love to read and write. They get to read their own stories and other children's as well. They can also illustrate their stories or just submit a picture they have drawn. My daughter did both and enjoyed seeing it actually printed in a newspaper for others to read. The volunteers that run it are wonderful people and put a lot of time in effort into this for the love of children, literature and the great Circle Gazette.
This is a GREAT organization that promotes literacy skills through their community newspaper. The kids are an active part in this and that is what makes it spectacular! My son recently wrote an article about Summer in Seattle. He had a great time planning, writing, editing his story. He would like to be more involved with the Circle Gazette. Hopefully one day, we will make it out to Florida to show our support of literacy for the Circle Gazette. Keep up the GREAT work on this newspaper that inspires kids to be fantastic writers!
I love volunteering for the Circle Gazette (an initiative of the Enrichment Circle, it is a newspaper written by children for children, independently published and is free for the children to submit their articles, art, poem, etc.), I love to read the stories and see the artwork the children create. It is refreshing to view things from a child's perspective, a break from the adult's daily responsibilities. At events, it's encouraging to see how much the children like seeing their work published and their confidence exudes. I will keep volunteering for the Circle Gazette as my girls are just getting to the ages to start submitting regularly and I want to help make this available to them. I think I like this project most because the kids who write for the paper really enjoy writing and creating. No one is telling them to do it, they want to do it, and they love it. It is a very safe forum to build self esteem by practicing and honing their editorial and artistic skills.
ChristieLynnVoss 06/29/2013
Thank you! We enjoyed working with your daughter and her artwork was superb! We look forward to publishing her work again soon!