Presents projects which combine creative and expository writing. (DD)

Insists upon the importance of poetry and provides a procedure for introducing both students and teachers to the writing and appreciation of poems. (JL)

Presents a sample of short writing assignments flowing from carefully prepared lessons that isolate specific learnings, guide processes closely, and appeal to student interests. (RB)

Presents a series of exercises aimed at helping students generate lines and ideas for their poetry. (MM)

Proposes ways of blending the study of literature and the teaching of writing. Suggests assignments that involve writing or rewriting literature, writing about literature, and writing in response to literature. (MM)

Describes a five-step creative writing program designed to improve student language skills. (JL)

Assignments, grading methods, and classroom techniques for teaching creative writing in the high schools. (RL)

A poet-in-residence discusses some of his teaching techniques for exposing students to a variety of poetry. (MM)

How to help students progress from descriptive to affective to creative responses through the use of films in a language arts class. (RB)

Describes a program of creative writing and describes student objectives and teacher objectives that allow the experience to aid students in producing critical essays. (CRH)

A good English teacher is one who draws from his students stories that reveal the unique dignity of their personalities and the unique coloring of their experiences. The author shows how this is done, emphasizing use of student writing models as motivation, and stressing sensory diction. (Author/JB)

Offers 17 exercises combining writing and painting, each with its own theme and goal, and all designed to show that close observation is fundamental to the effectiveness of both visual and verbal expression. (SR)

Offers a method for teaching English using biographies in conjunction with creative writing assignments, for example, writing a short biography of another student in the class. (SRT)

Describes a creative writing and reading class assignment in which each student was required to make a 20-minute presentation as a catalyst for student writing (such as a poem, song, object, or picture). (EL)

Describes a course unit on fiction writing with an emphasis on motivating students to see value and relevance in writing. (RAE)