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,…

Help kids create poems, stories and plays orally and they'll be readier to write. (Editor)

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

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how children can consciously examine the composition process and experience a set of problems designed to improve their writing ability. An approach to writing is outlined which is based on the assumption that writing is a skill that can be learned and improved upon. Examined are such topics as the…

Designed to encourage sustained independent writing, this book demonstrates ways that children were stimulated to invent their own Utopias, their own religions, new ways of fighting wars, and different schools. Contents include the following: "Traveling to an Imaginary Place; "Religion"; "Question of Continuity in Writing"; "War"; "Moving Toward a…

How to help students progress from descriptive to affective to creative responses through the use of films in a language arts class. (RB)

Based on the assumption that, when learning to write, the child must learn to build significant idea-content to communicate and to translate ideas into written material, this book examines the content phase of writing, the craft phase of writing, and the means of effecting a merger of content with craft. The first chapter affirms the central…

Describes a class project involving collaborative partnerships in which fifth graders wrote books for first graders. (HTH)

This article presents 16 language arts and writing activities based on secret codes and mystery stories designed to intrigue and motivate students. (SJL)

Sentence combining can act as a corrective for the large number of language arts lessons and activities that emphasize errors. Based on familiar sentence patterns, sentence combining provides models of effective language use and encourages students to examine and try more expressive and interesting styles of speaking and writing. Sentence…

Curriculum leaders, program specialists, and teachers can intentionally arouse the activation of one hemisphere of the brain over the other through the use of right brain strategies in language learning. While most functions of the left hemisphere are concerned with convergent production (getting the right answer), functions of the right…