National Writing Day -- October 20

National Writing Day is October 20. If you would like a fun way to encourage your learners to write, go to FloridaMemory.com and try out the State Library of Florida's writing tool. Florida memory is full of pictures around many Florida topics. A subset of these have been pulled together around short stories, books and topics like Dogs, Key West, Flight, Hurricanes and more.

A writer can select one of the pictures and then write their short story about it. You end up with a word document with a Florida picture. You need to save the story to your computer. The site does not save it.

If your literacy programs would like specific pictures based on your community or a topic, email snewell@dos.state.fl.us.