Addressed to junior and senior high school students, this beginning guide for writing speeches, research papers, and book reports outlines the processes of selecting a subject, organizing material and ideas, and beginning and ending a writing assignment. Offered as a supplement to classroom writing instruction, the guide assumes parental…

This book contains an edited transcription of the proceedings of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing held at the Library of Congress in January 1973. Directors of the four pioneer writing programs in the United States presented papers and led the panel discussions. Panel members were distinguished graduates of or participants in these…

The free-writing program presented in this book and illustrated with student writing samples emphasizes student writing which is alive and valuable and which is to be read by real persons, who respond. New material in this second edition focuses especially on these points, in three chapters: writing in and for a group of helping commenters…

Advertisements can be effective stimuli for creative writing.

Draws on the work of students in several classes to argue that the best stimulus for creative writing involves a fusion of comprehension, note-taking, and discussion work to provide a ready-made thematic structure for students' work. (AA)

Considers some effective teaching techniques for helping students find and illuminate their own material in creative writing workshops. Provides examples of student poems to help orient other students toward writing about observations, emotions, and experiences. (RL)

Suggests several teaching techniques which encourage creative independent writing by providing needed structure. (DD)

Eight ideas to motivate children to write. (CM)

A teacher describes a technique for helping students discover exactly what they want to write about and how to develop and expand an original idea. (JD)

Criticizes the Poets in the Schools program and similar undertakings for praising students' writing excessively and thus failing to acquaint students with the discipline required to produce outstanding poetry. (DD)

Describes writing folders (used to hold children's personal and creative writing efforts for an entire school year) and how they may be used effectively. (FL)

Describes a teaching sequence in which students are taught to write as if they were readers and read as if they were the writers. (HOD)

Author provided two methods for encouraging creative ideas from students. (Author/RK)