This article introduces a pedagogical intervention that includes a set of creative activities designed to improve the oral and written production of students in the English classroom, especially those who have shown a lack of interest or attention. It was observed that participants initially seemed careless about studying the language. Eventually…

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Describes a course in creative writing in which the experience of birth was the theme and includes several of the stories written by the students. (RB)

Contains two lessons in which students explore their feelings and then describe their responses through creative writing. (RB)

Describes a method for teaching disadvantaged students to write and contains samples of students' poetry. (RB)

One of the most valuable advantages of the mixed ability class is the social feeling, where pupils can learn from each other regardless of their abilities. (Author/MB)

Describes the class activities that lead to the making of a play and contains the script for a play entitled "The last of the Scotts," written and acted by students with the teacher serving as the producer. (RB)

The second of two volumes, this book is primarily concerned with the teaching of creative writing at any grade level, although some ideas may not be applicable to teaching very young students. This volume focuses on how to generate writing assignments, and while it is designed for classroom teachers, it can also be used by individual writers.…

Describes a brief creative writing course in which students can teach themselves how to write and includes sample instructional materials and exercises. (RB)

A story, started by the teacher, with each child adding a phrase and illustrating it. (RY)

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)

Advocates using the satiric interview style, popularized by the comedy team of "Bob and Ray," as an ideal model for satire writing at the secondary level. (MM)

Presents one teacher's observations on the activities happening in the writing and drawing classes in New York's P. S. 84. (RB)

Describes two poetry models that encourage the students to begin writing with the literal facts--the concrete--and allow the more abstract meaning to emerge from there. (CRH)

Describes a way to motivate reluctant children to create stories--coordinating puppetry and writing activities. (RL)