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McGraw Classroom Publishes Books

McGraw Elementary

Every student in Krista Venafro’s second grade class at Mastery McGraw’s campus is a published author, as she spends each school year producing a special book of her student’s writing as a class project. 

One of the founding teachers at the McGraw campus, Ms. Venafro started at Mastery in 2015 and quickly noticed that the students needed more motivation and opportunities for writing. After doing some research, she found a free, online student publishing kit and ordered her first one for her class. 

While Ms. Venafro says the “process is super simple,” it involves her creating an activity or theme for the book for her students to follow. Depending on the theme, each student could have two pages assigned to them – one for the text, one for the illustrations. Ms. Venafro reserves about six months for the entire process, saving room for any challenges that might delay a student’s pages. 

“I always strive for student achievement above all because at the end of the day it’s about learning and love,” said Ms. Venafro. “I love teaching and I want to see all my students to succeed and to be able to take what they’ve learned in my class and use it. Writing is an extremely important skill and I always stop to talk about why it is important.”

At the end of the project, Ms. Venafro receives a copy of the published book for her classroom library and parents and students’ families can purchase a copy of the book for their homes. 

This year’s book, “When We Grow Up,” features illustrations and text from each student on what they would like to be when they grow up. 

“This project is so fun! Students love to watch the process and then once it arrives it becomes a fun class period, opening the box and seeing the final published work. The kids cheer because they are authors now and are just so proud!”

McGraw Classroom Publishes Books

McGraw Classroom Publishes Books

McGraw Classroom Publishes Books