Clustering is a nonlinear brainstorming technique that can encourage children's natural writing ability by helping them draw on their need to make patterns out of their experience. Tips for introducing cluster writing into the classroom are offered. (MT)

A ten-day plan for letting students create their own choose-a-plot books is given. Students develop skills in creating plot structures, coming up with logical story lines, and inventing striking characters. Instructions for adapting the plan to word processing programs are given. (MT)

Points out ways contents of the city edition of daily newspapers can be used to teach math concepts. Posits a model of the creative process and suggests ways teachers can encourage creative writing. (RH)

Only a positive personal commitment by the teacher can open the door to children's appreciation of poetry. (Author)

Presents seven writing lessons for elementary students: choosing effective words; writing similes; writing paragraphs; writing descriptions; letter writing; comparing and contrasting; and understanding point of view. Some of the lessons have unusual themes, such as pizza, pickles, and hoboes. (SJL)

Author invited creative writing in many forms as an extension and natural follow-up in the sharing of literature. (Author/RK)

Tapes of old radio shows can be used to stimulate creative writing; addresses of sources are listed. (SP)

Suggests five children's books useful in motivating children to write original stories and essays. (Author/SJL)

Eight ideas to motivate children to write. (CM)

Author provided two methods for encouraging creative ideas from students. (Author/RK)

Describes how Wantagh Elementary School's reading lab became the School Publishing Company's Write-In Center where students can write stories and have them bound into books. Discusses the motivational benefits of a school publishing program. (SJL)

This writing unit with a Halloween theme includes exercises and worksheets to develop prewriting, writing, and rewriting skills. (SJL)

Offers strategies for integrating poetry throughout the year and throughout the curriculum, including suggestions for creating a back-to-school poem and capturing scenes of nature in haiku. Student pages offer a primary poem coloring worksheet and an intermediate haiku worksheet. (SM)