Student Treasure Publishing: Unleashing Young Authors

Studentreasures Publishing offers a unique and engaging way for students in grades K-12 to become published authors. Through collaborative classbook projects and individual publishing programs, students develop essential writing skills, build confidence, and create lasting memories.

Classbook Program: A Collaborative Publishing Experience

The Classbook program is designed for students in grades K-6 and provides a real-world experience in writing, collaboration, and creative expression. It allows a classroom of students to work together to create a book, enhancing their reading and writing skills in a fun and engaging way. Publishing a book with your class is cross-curricular and can be as easy as putting an existing lesson onto our paper!

Key Features of the Classbook Program

Free Publishing Kit: Studentreasures provides a FREE publishing kit to teachers, making it accessible for classrooms to participate.
Collaborative Project: A minimum of 12 students per class is required to participate in creating your FREE, classbook due to its collaborative nature. Each student contributes a page of writing and a page of illustration.
Curriculum Integration: Publishing a book with your class is cross-curricular and can be as easy as putting an existing lesson onto our paper. The project can be integrated into various subjects, including English, social studies, math, science, and language arts.
Step-by-Step Guidance: The publishing kit includes a step-by-step teacher guide to help teachers guide their students through the writing process.
Online Publishing Software: Scripsi, Studentreasures' online publishing software, allows classes to design their books online, providing a safe and secure environment for students to create their stories.
Free Teacher Copy: For each teacher who publishes a collaborative book with their class, one FREE publishing kit and one copy of the hardcover book FREE to the teacher is offered.
Parent Involvement: Parents have the option to pre-order copies of the classbook, encouraging family involvement and creating a treasured keepsake.
National Book Challenge: Participating classes are automatically entered into the National Book Challenge for a chance to win up to $5,000 in school grants.

What’s Included in the FREE Classbook Publishing Kit

The free classbook publishing kit includes all the necessary materials to create a classbook:

66 Kit Pages: 33 for Text & 33 for Illustration
Cover, Title, Dedication and Author Page
A Student-Created Sample Book
Step-by-Step Teacher Guide
Parent Order Forms
Classroom Publishing Poster
Start-to-finish project support
Project reminders to keep you on track
FREE Classbook Toolkit with Slideshow Lesson Plan & Choice Board to guide your students through publishing a book together
Storyboards, Printable Template Pages, Lesson Plans & Topic Ideas
Replacement Materials
Unlimited access to our online Teacher Community

How the Classbook Program Works

Order Your Free Kit: Tell us when you’ll publish and select your FREE kit! Choose the layout and format that works best for your class.
Get Creative: Let your students’ imaginations run wild as they fill the kit pages with their writing and illustrations.
Publish Book: Submit your completed kit(s) and we’ll send your deluxe, hardcover book, FREE to the teacher along with extra copies ordered by parents.
Celebrate! Get your camera ready to capture the smiles of your published authors. There are a million ways to celebrate!

Benefits of the Classbook Program

Motivates students to do their best work
Makes teaching writing easy and fun
Inspires creativity and hands-on learning
Encourages teamwork and collaboration
Builds a sense of pride and accomplishment
Teaches perseverance and showcases student progress

Online Publishing with Scripsi

Scripsi, Studentreasures' online publishing software, offers a digital platform for creating classbooks.

Features of Scripsi

Online program created just for schools to help teachers guide their students through the writing process.
Exclusive design allows teachers to create and send revision notes with feedback on each student’s pages.
Safe and secure environment that is login and password protected.
Log in simultaneously as a class and use Scripsi from any computer at home or school.
Students have the option to either upload their writing and illustrations or use Scripsi’s integrated drawing and typing tools to create the perfect story.

Individual Book Program: Unleashing the Solo Author

For students in grades 4-12 who want to tell their own story, Studentreasures offers an individual book program. This program is versatile and works great with groups or individuals. Each participant receives one kit to publish their own book and receives one hardcover copy. Parents have the option to purchase additional copies, but are under no obligation.

Key Features of the Individual Book Program

Individual Expression: Students have the freedom to write and illustrate their own stories.
Versatile Use: Individual books are versatile and work great with groups or individuals. The program can be used in after-school groups, public libraries, high schools, middle schools, youth groups, and home schools.
Free Publishing Kit: Each participant receives one kit to publish their own book and receives one hardcover copy.
Step-by-Step Guidance: The kit includes a step-by-step teacher's guide to assist students in the publishing process.
National Book Challenge: Participants are automatically entered into the National Book Challenge for a chance to win school grants.

What’s Included in the Individual Publishing Kit

Choice of paper or online kit
14 kit pages: 7 for text & 7 for illustration
Cover, Title, Dedication & Meet the Author Page
Step-By-Step Teacher’s Guide
1 professionally bound, hardcover book
Start-to-finish project support
Project reminders to keep you on track
Storyboards, lesson plans & book starters
Replacement Materials
Unlimited access to our online Teacher Community

The Publishing Process: From Classroom to Published Book

The publishing process with Studentreasures is designed to be simple and straightforward.

Choose Your Publishing Date and Order Your Free Publishing Kit: A publishing date is the date you choose that your kits are due back to us for publishing. This ensures your published books are back to your class when you need them. You select the kit layout that works for your class.
Fill the Pages with Your Students’ Writing and Illustrations: Let your students’ imaginations run wild as they fill the kit pages with their story. Each student contributes their own writing and illustration to create a collaborative classbook.
Submit Your Kit for Publishing: A week before your publishing date, pack up your completed materials and parent order forms (including those that choose not to pre-order) in the box your kit arrived in. Then, send it back to us using the prepaid label included in your kit.
Celebrate Your Proud, Published Authors! When your books arrive, get ready to party! Your students’ published books will be treasured keepsakes for years to come, so get your camera ready and capture the smiles of your published authors.

Additional Resources and Support

Studentreasures provides ample resources and support to ensure a successful publishing experience.

Teacher's Lounge: The Teacher's Lounge offers a variety of free resources, including printable kit materials.
Resource Library: The Resource Library has our best creative resources to spark your students’ imaginations as they create their one-of-a-kind book.
Replacement Materials: Mistakes happen. Print as many free, replacement pages as your budding authors need.
Customer Support: Studentreasures is happy to help! Please Contact Us or visit the FAQ page for answers to common questions.

Book Options

Our published books are available in 3 booktypes to choose from:

Our deluxe books feature an 8.5″ by 11″ matte hardcover for a sophisticated, smudge-resistant finish and are bound with thicker, more durable pages with cerulean blue end sheets.
Our standard books feature full-color printing and a glossy 8.5″ by 11″ hardcover.
Our softcover books feature full-color printing and a glossy 8.5″ by 11″ softcover.

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