Elementary students get involved in National Novel Writing Month

Fourth-graders at McKinley Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon, started writing novels last November as part of National Novel Writing Month. Their school was among the 632 classes and 15,000 students across the U.S. participating in the National Novel Writing Month’s youth program. Now, a few months later, the students can proudly point to novels they have written, while their teachers proudly point out that writing test scores have improved. Read more from this article in The Oregonian.