Orbit
Orbit publishes the highest quality fiction, plays, poetry, visual texts and articles. If your 10-11 year old readers are crying out for excitement, suspense, humour, pathos and drama in their reading material, Orbit will be a winner.
Read a sample story from Orbit magazine: Greta Bernice: Grammar Police by Katherine Pebley O'Neal and illustrated by Craig Phillips, published in Orbit #3 2009, with accompanying teaching session
Orbit readers are passionate about their cool mascot, Mungo, and his clever chooks. Dita von Niblett (pictured above) is a universal favourite. Their magazine, Orbit, corresponds to Stage 3 in the NSW K–6 curriculum.
Mungo gets a lot of mail and his laid-back, super cool attitude is definitely infectious with year 5 readers!
"Dear Mungo, I love all the chickens but I like Kerouac the most because he is the only rooster. I guess he has to look after all the others. My class and I are the first to ever read the Orbit mag in our school. I used to hate reading, but not now I read your mag." (Matt, Orbit reader 2008)
"Dear Mungo, I personally love you and your chickens. I can't wait till the next magazine is out and ready to roll. I would say that I'm a bit like Mervyn. Hey, when she reads, does she like to sit in a quiet place all to herself? I know I do." (Ankita, Orbit reader 2008)
Mungo has acquired three new chooks who made their School Magazine debut in 2009! Readers met Fangio, Mia-Jiao and Lugosi in February.
Because each issue of Orbit is unique, readers could enjoy this level of the magazine for two years in a row if they were not ready to move on to Touchdown, the most advanced title of The School Magazine..
To support your classroom practice, Teaching Units are available with every issue of Orbit. They are written by experienced primary teachers and link learning opportunities in Orbit with the NSW primary curriculum. To subscribe, click here.
To read the list of books to be featured in our book review section, Bookshelf, click here.
To subscribe to Orbit, click here.
Authors wishing to submit material for consideration for publication in Orbit 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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