Suggests an exercise to be used in a creative writing class to help students learn the various techniques available for characterization. (TJ)

Describes a technique for eliciting poetry from children through the process of word association. (DD)

Observation from British classrooms in the use of written language as a creative learning device with six- and seven-year-olds. (BF)

Describes a method of teaching a creative writing course that culminates in the preparation and publication of chapbooks of student poetry. Details six steps by which English teachers can carry out such student publications. (HB)

Describes the techniques and strategies suggested by practicing poets for teaching poetry. Discusses specifically what teachers should not do when studying poetry with students. Advocates teaching contemporary American poets, and provides a list of some of the best. (HB)

In this article, the author relates her experiences as creative writing teacher and her views as a teacher in the aftermath of Virginia Tech shooting. As a teacher who had taught writing and literature for twenty years, the author had received a great deal of submissions from her students about serial killers, rapists, slashers, and murderers and…

Does poetry have a place in elementary education? Can reading and writing poetry offer elementary learners a way to imagine (and to image) the world through personal insight, to organize and interpret their experience, and to discover meaningful connections to other areas of knowledge? If so, how should these modes of interaction and…

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)

Writing poetry can be a positive channel for self expression, so long as children are not forced to write. (JH)

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.…

Examines two of the consequences of the emphasis on creative writing in recent years and argues the need for impersonal or expository writing in English, especially at the secondary level. (RB)

Designed to help high school teachers improve their creative writing courses, this document stresses the value of submitting students' work to professional publications. Separate sections examine general rules for teaching creative writing, present background information on creativity, discuss benefits and problems involved in submitting students'…

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