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Ulu, Hacer; Yemenici, Aliye Ilkay – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Improving students' writing ability enables self-expression development as well as high-order thinking skills such as creative thinking. Alongside the active teaching in the classroom, the suitability of textbooks for creative writing contributes to the development of students' writing skills. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Exercises, Elementary Education, Textbooks
Eser, Rabia Sena; Ayaz, Hayrettin – Research in Pedagogy, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of creative writing exercises on narrative text writing skills and advanced reading awareness. To do that one of the mixed research designs, "exploratory sequential design" was used. The quantitative part of the study, in which a pretest post-test research design was used,…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Exercises, Writing Skills, Reading Skills
Barbour, Catherine; Lickorish Quinn, Karina – English in Education, 2020
Although one in five state-educated children in England speaks a language other than English at home, there is little space in the National Curriculum for the expression of this linguistic heritage. In this article, we make the case for facilitating multilingualism in the primary classroom through translingual creative writing, which involves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Creative Writing, Elementary School Students
Humeyra Uysal; Sabri Sidekli – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2023
This study aimed to determine the effect of mind mapping on story writing skills of the students. A pre-test, a post-test, and a semi-experimental research design were used in this study. The study group consisted of a total of 86 third-grade students; 33 students from the experimental group, 23 students from the control 1 group, and 30 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3
Blake, Robert W. – 1976
This paper cites descriptions, by professional writers, of two stages in the composing process that appear to correspond with the two modes of mental activity separately controlled by the hemispheres of the brain. The stage of writing a first draft involves unconscious, personal, irrational, intuitive writing which may be called "writing for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Intermediate Grades, Self Expression

Dyson, Anne Haas – Elementary School Journal, 1985
Using data from 14 weeks of participant observation, this study examines three kindergartners' behaviors during common beginning literacy activities (i.e., copying and free composition). Results focus on the children's understanding of how written symbols and orally read messages are related and have implications for the use of teaching…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children, Oral Reading

Starko, Alane J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1989
A study investigated the techniques used to generate and select topics for creative writing by professional writers, high school students with a specific interest in writing, high school students in above-average English classes, and students in average English classes. Sex differences are also examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Authors, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Decision Making

Durrant, Karen R.; Duke, Charles R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1989
Presents results of a six-week research project in a creative writing class that focused on developing audience sensitivity among students. Describes three units combining social, rhetorical, and informational perspectives. Concludes that a sequential approach seems to increase audience sensitivity among students. (KEH)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Creative Writing
Abrahamson, Richard F. – 1977
This document outlines an approach to secondary school composition instruction, using wordless picture books. Specific published textless books are discussed as aids in stimulating imagination, tapping the need for sense impressions, developing sequences of events, teaching transition and the passage of time, demonstrating point of view, making…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Instructional Materials

Buttery, Thomas J.; Reitzammer, Ann F. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Analyzes the creative writing of 94 second-grade children in a suburban elementary school, comparing boys' and girls' creative writings when the composition was elicited from realistic fiction, fantasy, and fantasy in conjunction with stuffed animals and wind-up toys. Also examines the combined creativity of boys' and girls' compositions and the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Females, Grade 2
Blake, Robert W.; Taillie, Laurie – 1977
The poetry unit presented in this paper is designed to teach high school students how to write poetry through personal observation, journal writing, and small group discussion. Using the unit, students progress through the stages of writing according to the following steps: observing a familiar person and noting words and phrases about that…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, English Instruction, Figurative Language
Young, Art; And Others – 1983
Because poetic writing as a method of discourse and as a tool for learning plays a significant role in many theoretical models of writing but is rarely used in practice, a study was conducted to examine the effects on 70 college students in an introductory psychology class of a mixture of poetic and transactional assignments on the subject of…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Writing, Discourse Modes, Educational Research

Thorogood, Lyn and Bridie Raban – Reading, 1985
Describes an activity that involved eight-year-old children writing stories for three- to five-year-old children. (DF)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Creative Writing, Cross Age Teaching, Language Acquisition

Tchudi, Susan – Language Arts, 1987
Looks into the functions of children's writing to determine what children can meaningfully write about. Discusses research on the functions of writing and then suggests assignments where children write letters to different audiences, such as to themselves and to their future children. These assignments help children learn about themselves. (SKC)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Language Arts, Letters (Correspondence), Personal Narratives
Krupa, Gene H.; Tremmel, Robert – Freshman English News, 1983
Cites survey and interview results indicating that college students do a large amount of self-sponsored writing, including letter and journal writing, to come to terms with others' ideas and their own feelings. Suggests that teachers need to make their students' own intentions the focus and starting point for for classroom writing. (MM)
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Writing, Creative Writing, Discovery Learning
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