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Tompkins, Gail E. – Language Arts, 1980
Offers a method for teaching penmanship whereby the different strokes of a penmanship exercise are used to illustrate the action in a story. Presents some story lines and shows how they may be adapted to imaginative penmanship drills that will hold the children's interest. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handwriting Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises

Tompkins, Gail E. – Language Arts, 1981
Lists several classroom writing activities, including writing in sand, using letters cut from magazines and newspapers, and baking letter cookies. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Activities

Blake, Howard; Spennato, Nicholas A. – Language Arts, 1980
Describes a "directed writing activity" that teachers can use in developing writing sessions that consistently produce good results. Outlines six steps in the writing activity: prewriting, framing the writing assignment, writing the assignment, revising the draft, editing, and writing the final draft. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)

Ribovich, Jerilyn K. – Language Arts, 1979
Suggests writing activities in eight categories that provide remedial readers with the exposure to language that they need in order to improve their reading. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Skills, Remedial Reading

Tway, Eileen – Language Arts, 1980
Recounts a teacher's involvement with students in the spontaneous process of learning to write. Presents the benefits of such an approach as preferable to conventional structured methods of writing instruction. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Teacher Response, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods

Pillar, Arlene M. – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: American History, Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Writing

Tompkins, Gail E. – Language Arts, 1982
Writing researchers suggest that children should write stories in order to (1) entertain, (2) foster artistic expression, (3) explore the functions and values of writing, (4) stimulate imagination, (5) clarify thinking, (6) search for identity, and (7) learn to read and write. (HTH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Creative Writing

Hall, Nigel; Duffy, Rose – Language Arts, 1987
Reports on successfully using letter writing and dialogue journals in a classroom where the children's writing tended to be remarkable similar because they did not insert their personalities into their writing. Their writing grew individualistic, and their vocabularies improved through invented spelling. (SKC)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Individual Differences, Letters (Correspondence), Personal Narratives