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…

Writing assignments designed to be interesting to students related to business letter writing, creative writing, and playwriting. (DB)

A detailed account of how a high school playwriting course was developed, with a list of 20 exercises. (RL)

Offering the notion of writing pedagogy as a "bazaar with many booths," this collection of articles on teaching creative writing is focused on applicability to all levels of instruction. The 10 articles, after a Foreword by the editor, are, as follows: "Before Writing: Remember What Makes Writing Easy" (Donald M. Murray);…

After presenting a series of assumptions about the teaching of playwriting (for example, that students can be taught the craft, if not the art, of playwriting; students must be kept to a strict deadline if they are to develop into disciplined writers; and playwriting should never be discussed outside the context of production possibilities), this…

Describes a cross-county writing project involving a third-grade class and high school drama students. The third graders write character sketches and send them to the drama students, who write a play using the characters. The high school students then produce the play for the elementary students, complete with costumes, makeup, and scenery. (TJQ)

This paper gives an overview of the creative writing program at BOCES III Institute for Gifted and Talented Youth during the 1974 and 1975 summer sessions. There were five major activity areas in the workshop: training in sensory awareness; writing, accompanied by criticism and revision; editing and publishing a book; literary analysis; and…