Blast Off
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Looking for a magazine that will make kids as excited about reading as you are?
Let Hamlet the chameleon, and Little Squirt, his (very well behaved) stink bug companion, entice young readers into the world of quality literature. Blast Off corresponds to Stage 2 in the NSW primary curriculum and is read (and loved!) by kids in year 4, or with reading skills of that level.
Read a sample Blast Off story and teaching session here: Adoption by Jeni Jones, illustrated by Stephen Axelsen, published in Blast Off #4, 2009
The texts in Blast Off are carefully chosen to appeal to contemporary Australian kids.
Issues include:
- poems
- a graphic novella and comic strips
- stories
- plays
- articles
- book reviews
- activities, recipes and word games
Each of the 10 issues of Blast Off are beautifully illustrated by leading Australia artists and also include striking photographs, making the magazines a valuable resource for visual literacy.
Special features in 2011 include:
- new episodes of the hugely popular serial comic Robot School by Veronica Rooke, written especially for The School Magazine
- a brand new graphic novella, written for School Magazine readers, in 10 parts, called Alien encounters, by Peter Sheehan - an out-of-this-world meeting between an alien and an astronomer set in colonial Australia.
To support the use of Blast Off in the classroom, experienced teachers produce Teaching Units, available with every issue of Blast Off. To subscribe, go here.
To read the list of books to be featured in our book review section, Bookshelf, go here.
To subscribe to Blast Off, go here.
Authors wishing to submit material for consideration for publication in Blast Off can read our Submission Guidelines here.
The School Magazine welcomes feedback from subscribers. Please send your comments and suggestions to: school.magazine@det.nsw.edu.au
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