Describes ways in which third and fourth grade students were introduced to language study by way of creative writing assignments. (HOD)

Stresses the importance of using imagery when having beginning writers write poetry. Discusses additional techniques of stressing the unusual, continuation words, the five senses, and repetition of a word or phrase. (MG)

Offers six prompts to use in teaching creative writing at the high school level. Explains how the prompts are used in the classroom. (MG)

Working with genre provides viable alternatives and variety in the teaching of creative writing and gives legitimacy to forms and subjects with which students are already familiar. (HOD)

Describes three ways to elicit children's poetry about their family histories. Illustrates this teaching technique with sixth graders' poems. (RL)

Tells the story of a substitute teacher's involvement with a "problem" class and her use of a student's idea as a class writing assignment. (RL)