Just in time for the Ohio Bicentennial - Write Now, Ohio brings Ohio authors to students in hundreds of classrooms throughout the state. Designed for students in grades four through six, Write Now, Ohio provides an interesting and creative way for students to improve their literacy skills.

The first program in Write Now, Ohio featured historian/author Rick Sowash and his book Heroes of Ohio. Following this live call-in television broadcast, CET aired Ohio Oddities, featuring journalist/author Neil Zurcher. Both of these programs aired on Tuesday, December 3, 2002, and can be seen online or by request of our ITV member schools through CET's Dial Access.

On the Write Now, Ohio site, teachers can find lesson plans to accompany both programs, and offer their students the opportunity to improve writing skills through the Ohio Writing Contest, or test their reading skills with the Ohio Oddities trivia quiz.

For more information on Write Now, Ohio call Krystal Cleaver at (513) 381-4033, extension 359 or contact her by email: kcleaver@cetconnect.org.

Write Now, Ohio is a production of CET Education and Technology and is funded through a generous grant from The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation.